gas
Part of speech: noun
An aeriform elastic fluid; such a fluid used for lighting or heating.
Part of speech: noun
A single jet or fiame supplied by gas.
Part of speech: noun
Gasoline. gasjet; gaslight.
Usage examples "gas":
- It's all right up here- the gas has passed over! - "With Haig on the Somme", D. H. Parry.
- Laura, dear, light the gas, please, and Egbert can read the telegrams for himself. - "A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century", E. P. Roe.
- Bedad, she looks well by gas- light! - "Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble.
