·add. ·- A kind of oil gas extensively used for lighting railroad cars, which carry it in compressed form.
·noun Laughing gas. II. Gas ·noun Any irrespirable aeriform fluid. III. Gas ·add. ·noun <<Gasoline...
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·- ·see under <<Gas>>. ...
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
·noun The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute o...
A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle. ...
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