GN'ARLED, adjective n'arled. Knotty; full of knots; as the gnarled oak.

GNASH, verb transitive nash. To strike the teeth together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth in rage.

GNASH, verb intransitive nash. To grind the teeth.

He shall gnash with his teeth and melt away. Psalms 112:10.

1. To rage even to collision with the teeth; to growl.

They gnashed on me with their teeth. Psalms 35:16.

GNASH'ING, participle present tense nash'ing. Striking the teeth together, as in anger, rage or pain.

GNASH'ING, noun nash'ing. A grinding or striking of the teeth in rage or anguish.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 8:12.

GNAT, noun nat. A small insect, or rather a genus of insects, the Culex, whose long cylindric body is composed of eight rings. They have six legs and their mouth is formed by a flexible sheath, inclosing bristles pointed like stings. The sting is a tube containing five or six spicula of exquisite fineness, dentated or edged. The most troublesome of this genus is the musketoe.

1. Any thing proverbially small.

Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Matthew 23:24.

GNAT'FLOWER, noun A flower, called also bee-flower.

GNAT'SNAPPER, noun A bird that catches gnats.

GNAT'WORM, noun A small water insect produced by a gnat, and which after its several changes is transformed into a gnat; the larva of a gnat.

GNAW, verb transitive naw. [ Gr. to scrape.]

1. To bite off by little and little; to bite or scrape off with the fore teeth; to wear away by biting. The rats gnaw a board or plank; a worm gnaws the wood of a tree or the plank of a ship.

2. To eat by biting off small portions of food with the fore teeth.

3. To bite in agony or rage.

They gnawed their tongues for pain. Revelation 16:10.

4. To waste; to fret; to corrode.

5. To pick with the teeth.

His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw

GNAW, verb intransitive naw. To use the teeth in biting.

I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.

GNAW'ED, participle passive naw'ed. Bit; corroded.

GNAW'ER, noun naw'er. He or that which gnaws or corrodes.

GNAW'ING, participle present tense naw'ing. Biting off by little and little; corroding; eating by slow degrees.

GNE'ISS, noun ne'is. In mineralogy, a species of aggregated rock, composed of quartz, feldspar and mica, of a structure more or less distinctly slaty. The layers, whether straight or curved, are frequently thick, but often vary considerably in the same specimen. It passes on one side into granite, from which it differs in its slaty structure, and on the other into mica slate. It is rich in metalic ores.

GNOFF, noun nof. A miser. [Not in use.]

GNOME, noun nome. An imaginary being, supposed by the cabalists, to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries. etc.

1. A brief reflection or maxim. [Not used.]

GNO'MICAL, adjective nomical. Sententious; containing maxims. [Little used.]

GNOMIOMET'RICAL, adjective [Gr. an index, and to measure.]

The gnomiometrical telescope and microscope is an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by reflection, and for ascertaining the inclination of strata, and the apparaent magnitude of angles when the eye is not placed at the vertex.

GNOMOLOG'IC

GNOMOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to gnomology.

GNOMOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to gnomology.

GNOMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a maxim or sentence, and discourse.]

A collection of maxims, grave sentences or reflections. [Little used.]

GNO'MON, noun no'mon. [Gr. an index, to know.]

1. In dialling, the style or pin, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day. It represents the axis of the earth.

2. In astronomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to find the altitude of the sun.

3. The gnomon of a globe, is the index of the hour-circle.

GNOMON'IC

GNOMON'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the art of dialling.

GNOMON'ICS, noun The art or science of dialling, or of constructing the dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

GNOS'TIC, noun nostic. [Latin gnosticus; Gr. to know.]

The Gnostics were a sect of philosophers that arose in the first ages of christianity, who pretended they were the only men who had a true knowledge of the christian religion. They formed for themselves a system of theology, agreeable to the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato, to which they accommodated their interpretations of scripture. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual and material, are derived by successive emanations from the infinite fountain of deity. These emanations they called oeons. These doctrines were derived from the oriental philosophy.

GNOS'TIC, adjective nostic. Pertaining to the Gnostics or their doctrines.

GNOS'TICISM, noun nos'ticism. The doctrines, principles or systems of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

GNU, noun A species of Antelope, in Southern Africa, whose form partakes of that of the horse, the ox, and the deer.