gare

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You find yourself in an amorphous mass, cast in a uniform mold, not in the presence of human beings who think their own thoughts I often saw trains stop in what is called a gare regulatrice_, where the prisoners are questioned and distributed.

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  1. To stare; gaze; gape. The neigheboures bothe smale and grete In ronnen, for to gauren on this man. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, l. 641. With fifty garing heades a monstrous dragon stands vpright! Phaer, Æneid, vi.
  2. A state of eagerness and excitement. The multitude hastened in a fell and cruel gare to try the utmost hazard of battle. Holland, tr. of Ammianus.
  3. Coarse wool growing on the legs of sheep. Blount. [Prov. Eng.]
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  • Hell no, she said, it be good old fashion chloral hydrate and it will knock your enemy ass over teakettle, gare-on-teed. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 02 - August 2000
  • In the competition, Guerin (pronounced "gare-in") and 10 other contestants will show off their design expertise while handling kitchen makeovers and garage conversions, all while trying to deal with sharing a living space with each other (this is when a good burper comes in handy). —  NBC San Diego - News Top Stories
  • If you cannot obtain tickets to four five of this year's films - Roman de gare, Heartbeat Detector, —  GreenCine Daily
  • Roman de gare: This was an intriguing, surprising, suspenseful, funny, quirky movie that I thoroughly enjoyed. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • I gare-on-damn-tee that even the greenest REMF would be able to obliterate hostile indigenous native personnel, 1-A, 1-each every trigger squeeze (to the extent the REMF was training-convinced that the EoTech was really just part of X-Box or Gameboy). —  Kit Up
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  1. Early modern English gaure; Middle English gauren, gawren, apparently irreg. for * garen, of uncertain origin: either (1) from Old French garer, guarer, observe, keep watch, hold guard, from Old High German warōn, take, heed, guard (cf. Old French garir, guarir, preserve, keep, guard, from Old High German warjan = Old Saxon werjan, guard: see ware, v.); or (2) another form of Middle English gasen, English gaze (cf. dare = daze, frore, froren = frozen, etc.).
  2. apparently from gare, v.
  3. Origin obscure.
  4. French, from garer, keep: see garage.
 

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