1. Something put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting; SYN. muzzle.
2. An official check or restraint on debate or free speech
3. A laugh-provoking remark or act
4. Prank, trick

1. To choke, retch, or have a spasm causing one to regurgitate; SYN. heave.
2. To cause to retch or choke; SYN. choke.
3. To make jokes or quips; SYN. quip.
4. To prevent from speaking; SYN. muzzle.
5. To struggle for breath; SYN. choke, suffocate.

A judicial ruling barring public disclosure or discussion (as by the press) of information related to a case; broadly; a similar nonjudicial prohibition against the release of confidential information or against public discussion of a sensitive matter

(Informal) Doddering or insane.

The ancient court music of Japan.

(Alexeyevich) (1934-1968) Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human in space aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region. He became a pilot 1957, and on 12 April 1961 completed one orbit of the Earth, taking 108 minutes from launch to landing. He died in a plane crash while training for the Soyuz 3 mission.

Oor Gagauze.
Ethnic minority of Christian Orthodox Turks, of whom 153,000 (90%) live in S Moldova. In Oct 1990, Gagauz separatists unilaterally declared a breakaway republic, fearing a resurgence of ethnic Romanian nationalism as Moldova moved toward independence. A state of emergency was declared later the same month after the separatists held unauthorized elections to an independent parliament.

Thomas 1721-1787 British general and colonial governor in America.

Town in Oklahoma (USA); zip code 73843.

(Homonym: gauge).
An obligation or pledge. Token of defiance or challenge; thing deposited as pledge of performance.

(Homonym: gage).
To offer as security in an obligation or pledge.

A measure of the ratio of the relative change of resistance to the relative change in length of a piezoresistive strain gage.

The distance between two points where the measurement of strain occurs.

The pressure above (or below) atmospheric. Represents positive difference between measured pressure and existing atmospheric pressure. Can be converted to absolute by adding actual atmospheric pressure value.