Definition of "gauze"

gauze

/ɡɔːz/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural gauzes
1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
3. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
4. Wire gauze, used as fence.
5. Mist or haze
verb
third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed
1. To apply a dressing of gauze
2. (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
  Quotations
  The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.
  1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28