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This machine – a "great nonsensical conglomeration of mechanical parts that sat under an enormous telescopic gaselier whose fittings were cast in the shape of birds that shot flame out of their beaks" – Gob calls the "Kosmos", and Whitman becomes in effect the human battery powering this vast tangle of copper pipes, human bones, grief, compassion and loss.

Gasalier′, Gaselier′, a hanging frame with branches for gas-jets, formed on false analogy from chandelier; Gas′-bag, a bag for holding gas: a boastful, talkative person; Gas′-brack′et, a pipe, mostly curved, projecting from the wall of a room, used for illuminating purposes; Gas′-burn′er, a piece of metal fitted to the end of a gas-pipe, with one or more small holes so arranged as to spread out the flame; Gas′-coal, any coal suitable for making illuminating gas; Gas′-condens′er, an apparatus for freeing coal-gas from tar; Gasē′ity, Gā′seousness.—adj.

Slowly they were making for the doors, when the flames from the ceiling seemed to dart down and met the jets from the gaselier.

Gimcracks in an �tag�re: a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier.

The stairway, lighted with bronze statues holding a gaselier on each newel post, led to the private upstairs chapel, later converted into a billiard room.