Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. 2. (a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

Multi-Version Concordance Gauze (2 Occurrences) Isaiah 3:23 the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils. (See JPS RSV) Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; (DBY)