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gaz 203 genie
gaz de combustion, gases of combustion;
compteur & , gas meter;
conduit & , gas pipe;
conduit b, principal, gas main;
eclairage au , gas lighting;
d'eclairage, illuminating gas;
eclairer au , to illuminate by gas;
de houille, coal gas;
impermeable au , gas-tight;
reservoir de , gas holder, receiver;
robinet de , gas cock;
usine to,
, gas works;
tuyau ft
, gas pipe;
tuyau d principal, gas main.
gazage, m., (met,) reduction by gaseous fuel,
gaze, f., gauze;
metallique, wire gauze;
bpansement, (med.) dressing gauze.
gazeifier, v. a., to transform into gas.
gazette, f., gazette;
lire la , (hipp.) to be off his feed (familiar).
gazeux, a., gaseous.
gazier, rn., gas fitter.
gazogene, m., gas generator.
gazomfctre, m., gasometev, receiver;
& contrepoids, counterpoise receiver;
d, lunette, telescopic gas holder;
fimouvements libres, free receiver.
gazon, m., grass; turf; sod;
- de boutisse, header;
molte de , sod (cut out in squares);
de panneresse, stretcher;
plaque, facing sod;
pose de haut, head sod;
de revetement, revetment sod;
revetement en s, sod revetment;
& talus, v. pose de haut.
gazonnage, m., (fort.) sod work, sodding, revetting
with scd.
gazonnement, m., (fort.) v. gazonnage.
gazonner, v. a., to turf, to sod, revet with sod.
gazonneur, m., (fort.) sod layer.
gelatine, f., gelatin;
detonante, v. explosive;
dynamite, (expl.) gelatin dynamite, Nobel's
nitrogelatine;
explosive, (expl.) explosive gelatin; gum
dynamite;
de guerre, (expl.) explosive gelatin, gum
dynamite, blasting gelatin;
obus ft,
, (art.) shell filled with explosive
gelatin.
gelatinisation, f., (expl.) gelatinization.
gelatiniser, v. a., (expl.) to gelatinize.
gelbite, f., (expl.) gelbite.
gclee, f., frost;
blanche, hoar frost.
gelcr, v. a. n. r., to freeze, become frozen.
gelif, a., cracked, or liable to crack, by frost (stones,
trees).
gelignite, f., (expl.) gelignite.
gelivite, f., liability to crack, etc., by frost.
gCUvure, f., frost-crack (in trees, stones).
gemelle, f., (cons.) fish, side piece, cheek.
gendarme, m., (Fr. a.) gendarme, private of the
gendarmerie; (in pi.) the gendarmerie;
eleve , "lance" gendarme, lowest enlisted
grade of the gendarmerie.
gendarmerie, f., (Fr. a.) gendarmerie (civil
duties, those of a constabulary; army duties,
provost guard, prisoner's guard, direction and
management of the trains regimentaires, when
consolidated); headquarters of a gendarmerie
post, the post itself;
d'Afrique, the legion (Nineteenth) of gendarmerie
serving in Algiers and Tunis;
brigade de , v. s. v. brigade;
coloniale, colonial gendarmerie;
compagnie de , all the gendarmes of a depart-
ment;
-
departementale, the gendarmerie serving in
the departments of France;
legion de , legion of gendarmerie, so called,
consisting of all the companies of one and the
same army corps region (four regions have two,
and one three legions);
maritime, the gendarmerie serving in the
military ports of France.
(mil.) general, general officer;
darmee, army commander (unofficial, not
technical);
de brigade, general commanding a brigade
(major-general);
brigadier- , the English and American term
brigadier-general;
du cadre d'activite (de reserve), (Fr. a.) a
general officer on the active (reserve) list of
the etat-major general de I'armee;
capitaine- , (Spanish) captain-general;
: en
chef, general in chief (no longer an official
designation in France);
de circonstnace, v. s. v. circonstance;
colonel- , colonel-general (honorary title, not
jbrench);
commandant une armee, (Fr. a.) official
designation of a de division designated to
command, in case of mobilization, an army
of two or more corps;
commandant un corps d'armee, (Fr. a.)
official designation of a de division assigned
to the command of a corps;
commandant un groupe d'armees, (Fr a )
official designation of a de division, commanding
a group of armies on one and the same
frontier, or in one theater of war;
directeur, (Fr. a.) the general officer at the
head of a direction of the war department;
de division, general commanding a division
(lieutenant-general) ;
^execution, a term used by Marbot for a
general fitted to carry out orders, but not to
exercise independent command;
-feld-marechal, field marshal;
gouverneur, (Fr.a.) the commanding general
of the places de Paris, de Lyon, respectively;
inspecteur, (Fr. a.) general officer specially
detailed by the minister of war to inspect
troops;
-lieutenant, the equivalent, in services other
than the French, of de division;
lieutenant- , lieutenant-general (of services.
other than the French);
major, the equivalent, in services other
than the French.of de brigade;
major , the English and American term
major-general (to be carefully distinguished
from the following word);
major , (Fr. a.) the chief of staff of all the
armies in war (major is here a noun and general
an adjective);
de tranchee, (siege) c. o. of the trenches (daily
detail, for each attack, of a general of brigade).
generalat, m., (mil.) dignity or grade of general;
duration of functions of a general officer.
generate, f., (call) long roll (drums); alarm (bugles);
general's wife.
generalissime, m., (mil.) generalissimo, general
in chief.
gen6rateur, m., (mach., etc.) generator (as steam
generator); a., generating;
de courant, (dec.) current generator;
de gaz, gas generator;
-
turbo-elcctrique, Parson's steam turbine,
used to work a dynamo;
&, de, vapeur, steam generator, boiler.
generation, f., generation, production (as of steam,
gases, etc.);
g6neratrice, f.. (mach., etc.) generatrix, (elec.)
generating dynamo;
de I'dme, (art.) surface of the bore;
de tourillon, (art.) upper surface of trunnion..
genfet, m., broom; (hipp.) jennet.
geneter, v. a., (fan.) to bend horseshoes upward.
genette, f., (harn.) Turkish bit; kind of snaffle;
& la, , (man.) with short stirrups.
genie, m., engineers, engineering;
adjoint au , v. s. v. adjoint;
chef du , y. s. v. chef;
civil, civil engineering;
corps du , (mil.) engineer corps;