Gassing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The process of singeing lace, cotton, yarn, etc., to remove the hairy filaments.
  • noun. The act or practice of talking in an idle, empty manner; talking nonsense.
  • noun. The fumigating of fruit-trees by means of hydrocyanic-acid gas, to destroy insects.
  • noun. The evolution of gas from the plates of a storage or secondary cell.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
  • noun. Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of gas.
  • noun. Poisoning by noxious gas.
  • noun. The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
  • noun. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
  • noun. Any similar process of singeing.
  • noun. boasting; insincere or empty talk
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
  • noun. the process of interacting with gas
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    boasting  
    verb-stem
    gas