Gambling – Gautama
Gambling
playing at games of hazard or chance for money. Strictly speaking, gambling may be understood as gaming in its worst sense, and as implying professional play for a money stake by men who are unscrupulous adepts at so-called games of chance.
Garboard Strake
or GAR- BOARD STREAK, in shipbuilding, the range of planks nearest to the keel. In the merchant service, the rabbet to receive the garboard strake is made along the upper edge of the keel. In the navy, a groove is made half-way down the keel to receive the garboard strake. a
Garden
MARY, an American so- ING; HOTBED. rn and style of
Gardenia
a genus of trees and dem, or cross spider, the Epeira diadema, a common British spider the sal surface of which is marked with a triple yellow cross. It forms a beautiful sal surface of which is marked with a the dorgeometric web.
Garden Spider
also called dia-
Gardiner
STEPHEN, an English prelate, believed to have been a natural son of Lionel, Bishop of Salisbury, and brother of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of GARFIELD
Garoo
a trading station of the Chinese empire, near a source of the Indus, 16,000 feet above sea-level; lat. 31° 40′ N., lon. 80° E. Here an active commerce is carried on in exchanging Chinese and Tibetan commodities for those of India and Kashmir.
Garry
a river in Scotland, county
Gas Puddling
in iron-works, the puddling of iron by the use of gases instead of solid fuel.
Gastonia
a city of North Carolina, the county-seat of Gaston co. It is on the Southern, the Piedmont and Northern and the Carolina and Northwestern railroads. Its industries are of great importance and include cotton mills, oil works, manufactures of cottonmill machinery, brooms, cement, wood fiber, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,759; (1920) 12,871.
Gath
one of the five royal cities of the Philistines, which, from its situation on the borders of Judah, was of much importance in the wars of the Jews and Philistines. It was the native town of Goliath, and was successively captured by David, Hazael, and Uzziah, who dismantled it.
Gautama
(gou'ta-ma), the family name of the founder of BUDDHISM (q. v.).