n. A very thin, slight, transparent stuff made of silk, silk and cotton, or silk and hemp or linen.n. Any slight open material resembling this fabric: as, wire gauze.Of or like gauze; gauzy.n. In surgery, cheese-cloth, impregnated with antiseptic material (such as borie acid, corrosive sublimate, or iodoform), or simply sterilized, employed in dressing wounds.