Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The portion of the abdomen behind the petiole in ants and other hymenopterous insects.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To frighten; scare.
- n. The stomach; the belly or abdomen: rarely used alone, but entering into many compounds and derivatives referring to the stomach, abdomen, or abdominal organs, or a part likened thereto.
- n. In certain hymenopterous insects, such as ants (Formicidæ), the abdomen exclusive of the stem, or pedicel.
Wiktionary
- n. the stomach
- n. the part of the abdomen behind the petiole in hymenopterous insects
- v. to destroy; to lay waste to
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To gast.
Etymologies
- Greek gastēr, belly.
Examples
“When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight.”
“Hmm, a gaster government might come from having a family relation, maybe a brother, swing an election to the favor of the family by using local influence to stifle the opposition.”
Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric
“At Bush's shoulder stood Prowse, the acting-gaster, senior master's mate with an acting-garrant.”
Hornblower And The Hotspur
“Prowse approached; as acting-gaster his station in battle was on the quarter-reck beside his captain.”
Hornblower And The Hotspur
“Metagaster: the secondary or permanent gut (gaster).”
“_Gastric_: (From the Greek [Transliterated: gasths], _gaster_, the belly,) belonging or relating to the belly, or stomach.”
“_Gastric_, (from the Greek [Greek: gastir], _gaster_, the belly,) belonging or relating to the belly, or stomach.”
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
“Head and thorax are deep brown with gaster and legs are dense or milky white”
“For example, if you could enlarge a one-centimeter-long ant so that its gaster (tail) extended over downtown Seattle and its antennae hung over Mount Rainier, a strand of ant DNA would be about two centimeters in diameter-about as wide as a US nickel.”
“Un Dimanche qu'il falust rester a une petite Ville nomée Harford ou pres de la il y a la maison de Campagne du Comte d'Essex fort antique que ie fus curieux de voir et jy fus venu civilement. dans ce Palais magnifique i'observay dans un grand dome des peintures grandes et extraordinaires dans le Cabinet du Comte quantitéz de pieces rares et antiquitéz tres Curieuses; et dans une grande Sale ie crus voir sur une table de marbre un lutt des fluttes et autres instruments, avec des livres deployéz de musique, item un jeu de carts deployé, une bourse de jettons plusieurs pieces d'argent et plusieurs autres gentillesses tres bien faittes et quand ie viens plus pres de la table ie fus bien surpris de voir la ouvrage d'un Second Appelles, que ces pieces que ie croyois effective n'estoient que contrefaittes en peinture ce qui fust ou me Sembloit le plus curieux est que la Superficie de Cette table de marbre estoit si bien polie qu'on auroit cru que c'estoit des peintures dessous un verre ou une glace, et on y pouvoit verser de leau Sans gaster la table ny la peinture, assurement il faloit que cela fust peint d'un vernis merveilleux.”
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missanthropist Greek Belly. Jul 9, 2008