Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.

2. (n.) Goods; property; household stuff.

3. (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

4. (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

5. (n.) Warlike accouterments.

6. (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.

7. (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.

8. (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

9. (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

10. (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

11. (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).

12. (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

13. (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

14. (v. t.) To provide with gearing.

15. (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.