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Defn: Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Hæmulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

GRUNTER Grunt"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. "Bristled grunters." Tennyson.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2.

3. (Brass Founding)

Defn: A hook used in lifting a crucible.

GRUNTINGLY Grunt"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a grunting manner.

GRUNTLE Grun"tle, v. i. Etym: [Freq. of grunt.]

Defn: To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]

GRUNTLING Grunt"ling, n.

Defn: A young hog.

GRUTCH Grutch, v.

Defn: See Grudge. [Obs.] Hudibras.

GRUYERE CHEESE Gru"yère` cheese

Defn: '' (Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse.

GRY Gry, n. Etym: [Gr

1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.

2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]

GRYDE Gryde, v. i.

Defn: To gride. See Gride. Spenser.

GRYFON Gryf"on, n. [Obs.]

Defn: See Griffin. Spenser.

GRYLLUS Gryl"lus, n. Etym: [L., locust.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of insects including the common crickets.

GRYPE Grype, v. t.

Defn: To gripe. [Obs.] See Gripe. Spenser.

GRYPE Grype, n. Etym: [Gr. gry`f, grypo`s, griffin. See Griffin.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A vulture; the griffin. [Written also gripe.] [Obs.]

GRYPHAEA Gry*phæ"a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. I gryphus, or qryps, gen. gryphis, a griffin.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

GRYPHITE Gryph"ite, n. Etym: [Cf. F. gryphite.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A shell of the genus Gryphea.

GRYPHON Gryph"on, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The griffin vulture.

GRYSBOK Grys"bok n. Etym: [D. grijs gray + bok buck.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

GUACHARO Gua*cha"ro, n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. guácharo sickly, dropsical, guacharaca a sort of bird.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.

Note: It resembles the goatsuckers and nighthawks, but feeds on fruits, and nests in caverns. A pure oil, used in place of butter, is extracted from the young by the natives.

GUACHO Gua"cho, n.; pl. Guachos ( Etym: [Spanish American.]

1. One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

2. An Indian who serves as a messenger.

GUACO Gua"co, n. Etym: [Sp.] (Bot.) (a) A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley. (b) The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose.

GUAIAC Gua"iac, a. Etym: [See Guaiacum.]

Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum.

GUAIACOL Guai"a*col, n. [Guaiacum + -ol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless liquid, C7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

GUAIACUM Gua"ia*cum, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Hayti.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum- vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written also guaiac.]

GUAN Guan, n. ((Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Certal and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.

GUANA Gua"na, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Iguana.

GUANACO Gua*na"co, n.; pl. Guanacos. Etym: [Sp. guanaco, Peruv. huanacu. Cf. Huanaco.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state. [Written also huanaco.]

GUANIDINE Gua"ni*dine, n. (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.

GUANIFEROUS Gua*nif"er*ous, a. Etym: [Guano + -ferous.]

Defn: Yielding guano. Ure.

GUANIN Gua"nin, n. (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals.

GUANO Gua"no, n.; pl. Guanos. Etym: [Sp. guano, fr. Peruv. huanu dung.]

Defn: A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

GUARA Gua"ra, n. Etym: [Braz. guará.] (Zoöl.) (a) The scarlet ibis. See Ibis. (b) A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry.

GUARANA Gua"ra*na`, n. Etym: [Pg.] (Med.)

Defn: A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.

GUARANINE Gua"ra*nine`, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine.

GUARANTEE Guar`an*tee", n.; pl. Guarantees. Etym: [For guaranty, prob. influenced by words like assignee, lessee, etc. See Guaranty, and cf. Warrantee.]

1. In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty. His interest seemed to be a guarantee for his zeal. Macaulay.

2. One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor. South.

Note: Guarantor is the correct form in this sense.

3. (Law)

Defn: The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.

Syn. -- Guarantee, Warranty. A guarantee is an engagement that a certain act will be done or not done in future. A warranty is an engagement as to the qualities or title of a thing at the time of the engagement.

GUARANTEE Guar"an*tee`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. guaranteed; p, pr. & vb. n. Guaranteeing.] Etym: [From Guarantee, n.]

Defn: In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S.

GUARANTOR Guar"an*tor`, n. Etym: [See Guaranty, and cf. Warrantor.] (Law) (a) One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety. (b) One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.

GUARANTY Guar"an*ty, n.; pl. Guaranies. Etym: [OF. guarantie, garantie, F. garantie, OF. guarantir, garantir, to warrant, to guaranty, E. garantir, fr. OF. guarant, garant, a warranter, F. garant; of German origin, and from the same word as warranty. See Warrant, and cf. Warranty, Guarantee.]

Defn: In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.

GUARANTY Guar"an*ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guarantied; p. pr. & vb. n. Guarantying.] Etym: [From Guaranty, n.]

Defn: In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he hass stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t.

Note: Guaranty agrees in form with warranty. Both guaranty and guarantee are well authorized by legal writers in the United States. The prevailing spelling, at least for the verb, is guarantee.

GUARD Guard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guarded; p. pr. &, vb. n. Gurding.] Etym: [OF. guarder, garder, warder, F. garder, fr. OHG. wart to be on the watch, await, G. marten. See Ward, v. & n., and cf. Guard, n.]

1. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; toaccompany for protection; to vare for. For Heaven still guards the right. Shak.

2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

3. To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc. The body of your discourse it sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Shak.

4. To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Syn. -- To defend, protect, shield; keep; watch.

GUARD Guard (gärd), v. i.

Defn: To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

GUARD Guard, n. Etym: [OF. guarde, F. garde; of German origin; cf. OHG. wart, marto, one who watches, mata a watching, Goth. wardja watchman. See Guard, v. t.]

1. One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection. His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft. Shak.

2. A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel. The guard which kept the door of the king's house. Kings xiv. 27.

3. One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. [Eng.]

4. Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as: (a) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand. (b) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment. (c) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress. (d) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel. (e) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision. (f) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger. (g) (Bookbinding) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.

5. A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.

6. An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure. They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I. Atterbury.

7. Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.

8. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

Note: Guard is often used adjectively or in combination; as, guard boat or guardboat; guardroom or guard room; guard duty. Advanced guard, Coast guard, etc. See under Advanced, Coast, etc. -- Grand guard (Mil.), one of the posts of the second line belonging to a system of advance posts of an army. Mahan. -- Guard boat. (a) A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to see that their officers keep a good lookout. (b) A boat used by harbor authorities to enforce the observance of quarantine regulations. -- Guard cells (Bot.), the bordering cells of stomates; they are crescent-shaped and contain chlorophyll. -- Guard chamber, a guardroom. -- Guard detail (Mil.men from a company regiment etc., detailed for guard duty. -- Guard duty (Mil.), the duty of watching patrolling, etc., performed by a sentinel or sentinels. -- Guard lock (Engin.), a tide lock at the mouth of a dock or basin. -- Guard of honor (Mil.), a guard appointed to receive or to accompany eminent persons. -- Guard rail (Railroads), a rail placed on the inside of a main rail, on bridges, at switches, etc., as a safeguard against derailment. -- Guard ship, a war vessel appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbor, and also, in the English service, to receive seamen till they can be distributed among their respective ships. -- Life guard (Mil.), a body of select troops attending the person of a prince or high officer. -- Off one's guard, in a careless state; inattentive; unsuspicious of danger. -- On guard, serving in the capacity of a guard; doing duty as a guard or sentinel; watching. -- On one's guard, in a watchful state; alert; vigilant. -- To mount guard (Mil.), to go on duty as a guard or sentinel. -- To run the guard, to pass the watch or sentinel without leave.

Syn. -- Defense; shield; protection; safeguard; convoy; escort; care; attention; watch; heed.

GUARDABLE Guard"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. gardable. See Guard, v. t.]

Defn: Capable of being guarded or protected.

GUARDAGE Guard"age, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. wardage. See Guard, v. t.]

Defn: Wardship [Obs.] Shak.

GUARDANT Guard"ant, a. Etym: [OF. guardant, p. pr. of guard. See Guard, v. t.]

1. Acting as guardian. [Obs.] Shak.

2. (Her.)

Defn: Same as Gardant.

GUARDANT Guard"ant, n.

Defn: A guardian. [Obs.] Shak.

GUARDED Guard"ed, a.

Defn: Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.

GUARDENAGE Guard"en*age, n.

Defn: Guardianship. [Obs. & R.] " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.

GUARDER Guard"er, n.

Defn: One who guards.

GUARDFISH Guard"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The garfish.

GUARDFUL Guard"ful, a.

Defn: Cautions; wary; watchful. [Obs. or Poetic.] -- Guard"ful*ly, adv.

GUARDHOUSE Guard"house`, n. (Mil.)

Defn: A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

GUARDIAN Guard"i*an, n. Etym: [OF. guardain, gardien, F. gardien, LL. guardianus. See Guard, v. t., and cf. Wasden.]

1. One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

2. (Law)

Defn: One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child. Blockstone. Guardian ad litem ( (Law), a guardian appointed by a court of justice to conduct a particular suit. -- Guardians of the poor, the members of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, or district.

GUARDIAN Guard"i*an, a.

Defn: Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care. Feast of Guardian Angels (R. C. Ch.) a church festival instituted by Pope Paul V., and celebrated on October 2d. -- Guardian angel. (a) The particular spiritual being believed in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship and protection of each human being from birth. (b) Hence, a protector or defender in general. O. W. Holmes. -- Guardian spirit, in the belief of many pagan nations, a spirit, often of a deceased relative or friend, that presides over the interests of a household, a city, or a region.

GUARDIANAGE Guard"i*an*age, n.

Defn: Guardianship. [Obs.]

GUARDIANCE Guard"i*ance, n.

Defn: Guardianship. [Obs.]

GUARDIANESS Guard"i*an*ess, n.

Defn: A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.

GUARDIANLESS Guard"i*an*less, a.

Defn: Without a guardian. Marston.

GUARDIANSHIP Guard"i*an*ship, n.

Defn: The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.

GUARDLESS Guard"less, a.

Defn: Without a guard or defense; unguarded. Chapman.

GUARDROOM Guard"room`, n. (Mil.)

Defn: The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

GUARDS Guards (gärdz), n. pl.

Defn: A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."

GUARDSHIP Guard"ship, n.

Defn: Care; protection. [Obs.] Swift.

GUARDSMAN Guards"man, n.; pl. Guardsmen (.

1. One who guards; a guard.

2. A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.

GUARISH Guar"ish, v. t. Etym: [OF. guarir, garir, F. guérir.]

Defn: To heal. [Obs.] Spenser.

GUATEMALA GRASS Gua`te*ma"la grass". (Bot.)

Defn: See Teosinte.

GUAVA Gua"va, n. Etym: [Sp. guayaba the guava fruit, guayabo the guava tree; prob. fr. the native West Indian name.]

Defn: A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.

GUBERNANCE Gu"ber*nance, n.

Defn: Government. [Obs.]

GUBERNATE Gu"ber*nate, v. t. Etym: [L. gubernatus, p. p. of gubernare. See Govern.]

Defn: To govern. [Obs.] Cockeram.

GUBERNATION Gu"ber*na`tion, n. Etym: [L. gubernatio.]

Defn: The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

GUBERNATIVE Gu"ber*na*tive, a.

Defn: Governing. [Obs.]

GUBERNATORIAL Gu"ber*na*to`ri*al, a. Etym: [L. gubernator governor. See Gabernate.]

Defn: Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

GUDGEON Gud"geon, n. Etym: [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or gob, Gr. 1st Goby. ]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.

2. What may be got without skill or merit. Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Shak.

3. A person easily duped or cheated. Swift.

4. (Mach.)

Defn: The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

6. (Naut.)

Defn: A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. Ball gudgeon. See under Ball.

GUDGEON Gud"geon, v. t.

Defn: To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. [R.] To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you. Sir IV. Scott.

GUE Gue, n.

Defn: A sharper; a rogue. [Obs.] J. Webstar.

GUEBER; GUEBRE Gue"ber Gue"bre, n.

Defn: Same as Gheber.

GUELDERROSE Guel"der*rose, n. Etym: [Supposed to be brought from Guelderland; hence, D. Geldersche roos, G. Gelderische rose, F. rose de Gueldre, It. rose di Gueldra, Sp. rosa de Gueldres.] (Bot.)

Defn: A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

GUELPH; GUELF Guelph, Guelf, n. Etym: [It. Guelfo, from Welf, the name of a German family.] (Hist.)

Defn: One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.

GUELPHIC; GUELFIC Guelph"ic, Guelf"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the family or the facttion of the Guelphs.

GUENON Guenon", n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.

GUEPARDE Gue`parde", n. Etym: [Cf. F. guépard.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The cheetah.

GUERDON Guer"don, n. Etym: [OF. guerdon, guerredon, LL. widerdonum (influenced by L. donum gift, cf. Donation ), fr. OHG. widarl; widar again, against (G. wider wieder) + lon reward, G. lohn, akin to AS. leán Goth. laun. See Withers.]

Defn: A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense. Macaulay. So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot. Byron. He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

GUERDON Guer"don, v. t. Etym: [OF. guerdonner, guerredonner. See Guerdon, n.]

Defn: To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for. [R.] Him we gave a costly bribe To guerdon silence. Tennyson.

GUERDONABLE Guer"don*a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. guerredonable.]

Defn: Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.

GUERDONLESS Guer"don*less, a.

Defn: Without reward or guerdon.

GUEREZA Gue*re"za, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.

GUERILLA Gue*ril"la, a.

Defn: See Guerrilla.

GUERITE Guer"ite, n. Etym: [F. guérite.] (Fort.)

Defn: A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

GUERNSEY LILY Guern"sey lil"y. (Bot.)

Defn: A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.

GUERRILLA Guer*ril"la, n. Etym: [Sp., lit., a little war, skirmish, dim. of guerra war, fr. OHG. werra discord, strife. See War.]

1. An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.

2. One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.

Note: The term guerrilla is the diminutive of the Spanish word guerra, war, and means petty war, that is, war carried on by detached parties; generally in the mountains. . . . A guerrilla party means, an irregular band of armed men, carrying on an irregular war, not being able, according to their character as a guerrilla party, to carry on what the law terms a regular war. F. Lieder.

GUERRILLA Guer*ril"la, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.

GUESS Guess, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Guessing.] Etym: [OE. gessen; akin to Dan. gisse, Sw. gissa, Icel. gizha, D. gissen: cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably originally, to try to get, and akin to E. get. See Get.]

1. To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. Pope.

2. To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive. We may then guess how far it was from his design. Milton. Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress, To be Taxallan enemies I guess. Dryden.

3. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.

4. To hit upon or reproduce by memory. [Obs.] Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them. Shak.

5. To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause. Not all together; better far, I guess, That we do make our entrance several ways. Shak. But in known images of life I guess The labor greater. Pope.

Syn. -- To conjecture; suppose; surmise; suspect; divine; think; imagine; fancy. -- To Guess, Think, Reckon. Guess denotes, to attempt to hit upon at random; as, to guess at a thing when blindfolded; to conjecture or form an opinion on hidden or very slight grounds: as, to guess a riddle; to guess out the meaning of an obscure passage. The use of the word guess for think or believe, although abundantly sanctioned by good English authors, is now regarded as antiquated and objectionable by discriminating writers. It may properly be branded as a colloguialism and vulgarism when used respecting a purpose or a thing about which there is no uncertainty; as, I guess I 'll go to bed.

GUESS Guess, v. i.

Defn: To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc This is the place, as well as I may guess. Milton.

GUESS Guess, n.

Defn: An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise. A poet must confess His art 's like physic -- but a happy guess. Dryden.

GUESSABLE Guess"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being guessed.

GUESSER Guess"er, n.

Defn: One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.

GUESSINGLY Guess"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: By way of conjecture. Shak.

GUESSIVE Guess"ive, a.

Defn: Conjectural. [Obs.] Feltham.

GUESS ROPE Guess" rope". (Naut.)

Defn: A guess warp.

GUESS WARP Guess" warp". (Naut.)

Defn: A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

GUESSWORK Guess"work`, n.

Defn: Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

GUEST Guest, n. Etym: [OE. gest, AS. gæst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]

1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

GUEST Guest, v. t.

Defn: To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] Sylvester.

GUEST Guest, v. i.

Defn: To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.] And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. Chapman.

GUEST ROPE Guest" rope". (Naut.)

Defn: The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

GUESTWISE Guest"wise", adv.

Defn: In the manner of a guest.

GUEVI Gue"vi, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (C. pyg. mæa); -- called also pygmy antelope.

GUFFAW Guf*faw" (, n.

Defn: A loud burst of laughter, a horse laugh. "A hearty low guffaw." Carlyle.

GUFFER Guf"fer, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The eelpout; guffer eel.

GUGGLE Gug"gle, v. i.

Defn: See Gurgle.

GUHR Guhr, n. Etym: [G.]

Defn: A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher. P. Cleaveland.

GUIAC Gui"ac, n.

Defn: Same as Guaiac.

GUIACOL Gui"a*col, n. Etym: [Guiac + -ol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

GUIACUM Gui"a*cum, n.

Defn: Same as Guaiacum.

GUIB Guib, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba.

GUICOWAR Gui"co*war, n.

Defn: [Mahratta gaekwar, prop., a cowherd.] The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; -- generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.

GUIDABLE Guid"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat.

GUIDAGE Guid"age, n. Etym: [See Guide.]

1. The reward given to a guide for services. [R.] Ainsworth.

2. Guidance; lead; direction. [R.] Southey.

GUIDANCE Guid"ance, n. Etym: [See Guide.]

Defn: The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay.

GUIDE Guide, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guided; p. pr. & vb. n. Guiding.] Etym: [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer, It. guidare; prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show the way. Cf. Wit, Guy a rope, Gye.]

1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. Shak.

2. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train. He will guide his affairs with discretion. Ps. cxii. 5. The meek will he guide in judgment. Ps. xxv. 9.

GUIDE Guide, n. Etym: [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See Guide, v. t.]

1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.

2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator. He will be our guide, even unto death. Ps. xlviii. 14.

3. Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as: (a) (Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets. (b) (Surgery)

Defn: A grooved director for a probe or knife. (c) (Printing) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.

4. (Mil.)

Defn: A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics. Farrow. Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also guide, and slide bar. -- Guide block (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar. -- Guide meridian. (Surveying) See under Meridian. -- Guide pile (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to. -- Guide pulley (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler. Knight. -- Guide rail (Railroads), an additional rail, between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.

GUIDEBOARD Guide"board`, n.

Defn: A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.

GUIDEBOOK Guide"book`, n.

Defn: A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.

GUIDELESS Guide"less, a.

Defn: Without a guide. Dryden.

GUIDEPOST Guide"post`, n.

Defn: A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

GUIDER Guid"er, n.

Defn: A guide; a director. Shak.

GUIDERESS Guid"er*ess, n.

Defn: A female guide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GUIDE ROPE Guide rope. (Aëronautics)

Defn: A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

GUIDGUID Guid"guid`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.

GUIDON Gui"don, n. Etym: [F. guidon, It. guidone. See Guide, v. t.]

1. A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon. The pendants and guidons were carried by the officer of the army. Evelyn.

2. One who carries a flag. Johnson.

3. One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.

GUIGE Guige, n. [Obs.]

Defn: See Gige.

GUILD Guild, n. Etym: [OE. gilds, AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, a society or company where payment was made for its charge and support, fr. AS. gildan, gieldan, to pay. See Yield, v. t.]

1. An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

2. A guildhall. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.

GUILDABLE Guild"a*ble, a.

Defn: Liable to a tax. [Obs.]

GUILDER Guil"der, n. Etym: [D. gulden, orig., golden. Cf. Golden.]

Defn: A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

GUILDHALL Guild"hall`, n.

Defn: The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

GUILE Guile, n. Etym: [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin, and the same word as E. wile. See Wile.]

Defn: Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

GUILE Guile, v. t. Etym: [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]

Defn: To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.] Spenser.

GUILEFUL Guile"ful, a.

Defn: Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.

GUILELESS Guile"less, a.

Defn: Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.

GUILLEMET Guil"le*met`, n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A quotation mark. [R.]

GUILLEMOT Guil"le*mot`, n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.

Note: The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus Uria (as U. troile); the black or foolish guillemot (Cepphus grylle, formerly Uria grylle), is called also sea pigeon and eligny. See Murre.

GUILLEVAT Guil`le*vat" [], n. Etym: [F. guilloire (fr. guiller to work, ferment)+ E. vat.]

Defn: A vat for fermenting liquors.

GUILLOCHE Guil"loche`, n. Etym: [F. guillochis; -- said to be fr. Guillot, the inventor of a machine for carving it.] (Arch.)

Defn: An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.

GUILLOCHED Guil*loched", a.

Defn: Waved or engine-turned. Mollett.

GUILLOTINE Guil"lo*tine`, n. Etym: [F., from Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish decapitation with the ax or sword. The instrument was invented by Dr. Antoine Louis, and was called at first Louison or Louisette. Similar machines, however, were known earlier.]

1. A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

2. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

GUILLOTINE Guil"lo*tine`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guillotined; p. pr. & vb. n. Guillotining.] Etym: [Cf. F. guillotiner.]

Defn: To behead with the guillotine.

GUILOR Guil"or, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. guileor.]

Defn: A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile. [Obs.] Spenser.

GUILT Guilt, n. Etym: [OE. gilt, gult, AS. gylt, crime; probably originally signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, v. t.]

1. The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; teh state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right. Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin. Milton.

2. Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture. A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade. Kent.

GUILTILY Guilt"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a guilty manner.

GUILTINESS Guilt"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being guilty.

GUILTLESS Guilt"less, a.

1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7.

2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with). Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton. -- Guilt"less*ly, adv. -- Guilt"less*ness, n.

GUILT-SICK Guilt"-sick`, a.

Defn: Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.

GUILTY Guilt"y, a. [Compar. Gultier; superl. Guiltiest.] Etym: [AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.]

1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered and said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66. Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife. Dryden.

2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.

3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.] Dryden.

GUILTYLIKE Guilt"y*like`, adv.

Defn: Guiltily. [Obs.] Shak.

GUIMPE Guimpe, n. [F. See 2d Gimp.]

Defn: A kind of short chemisette, worn with a low-necked dress.

GUINEA Guin"ea, n.

1. A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.

2. A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one shillings. Pinkerton. Guinea corn. (Bot.) See Durra. -- Guinea Current (Geog.), a current in the Atlantic Ocean setting southwardly into the Bay of Benin on the coast of Guinea.-- Guinea dropper one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas. [Obs.] Gay. -- Guinea fowl, Guinea hen (Zoöl.), an African gallinaceous bird, of the genus Numida, allied to the pheasants. The common domesticated species (N. meleagris), has a colored fleshy horn on each aide of the head, and is of a dark gray color, variegated with small white spots. The crested Guinea fowl (N. cristata) is a finer species.-- Guinea grains (Bot.), grains of Paradise, or amomum. See Amomum. -- Guinea grass (Bot.), a tall strong forage grass (Panicum jumentorum) introduced. from Africa into the West Indies and Southern United States. -- Guinea-hen flower (Bot.), a liliaceous flower (Fritillaria Meleagris) with petals spotted like the feathers of the Guinea hen. -- Guinea peach. See under Peach. -- Guinea pepper (Bot.), the pods of the Xylopia aromatica, a tree of the order Anonaceæ, found in tropical West Africa. They are also sold under the name of Piper Æthiopicum. --Guinea pig.

Note: [Prob. a mistake for Guiana pig.] (a) (Zoöl.) A small Brazilian rodent (Cavia cobaya), about seven inches in length and usually of a white color, with spots of orange and black. (b) A contemptuous sobriquet. Smollett. -- Guinea plum (Bot.), the fruit of Parinarium excelsum, a large West African tree of the order Chrysobalaneæ, having a scarcely edible fruit somewhat resembling a plum, which is also called gray plum and rough-skin plum. -- Guinea worm (Zoöl.), a long and slender African nematoid worm (Filaria Medinensis) of a white color. It lives in the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces painful sores.

GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR Guin"ea-pig` di*rec"tor.

Defn: A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

GUIPURE Gui*pure", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

GUIRLAND Guir"land, n. [Obs.]

Defn: See Garland.

GUISE Guise, n. Etym: [OE. guise, gise, way, manner, F. guise, fr. OHG. wisa, G. weise. See Wise, n.]

1. Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.

2. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. As then the guise was for each gentle swain. Spenser. A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination. Burke.

3. Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.

GUISER Guis"er, n. Etym: [From Guise.]

Defn: A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

GUITAR Gui*tar", n. Etym: [F. guitare; cf. Pr., Sp., & Pg.guitarra, It. chitarra; all fr. Gr. cithara. Cf. Cittern, Gittern.]

Defn: A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

GUITGUIT Guit"guit`, n. Etym: [So called from its note.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidæ, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.

GULA Gu"la, n.; pl. L. GulÆ, E. Gulas. Etym: [L., the throat, gullet.]

1. (Zoöl.) (a) The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat. (b) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.

GULAR Gu"lar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. gulaire.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin.

GULAUND Gu"laund, n. Etym: [Icel. gul-önd.]

Defn: An arctic sea bird.

GULCH Gulch, n.

1. Act of gulching or gulping. [Obs.]

2. A glutton. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

3. A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

GULCH Gulch, v. t. Etym: [OE. gulchen; cf. dial. Sw. gölka to gulch, D. gulzig greedy, or E. gulp.]

Defn: To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]

GULD Guld, n.

Defn: A flower. See Gold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GULDEN Gul"den, n.

Defn: See Guilder.

GULE Gule, v. t.

Defn: To give the color of gules to.

GULE Gule, n.

Defn: The throat; the gullet. [Obs.] Throats so wide and gules so gluttonous. Gauden.

GULES Gules, n. Etym: [OE. goules, F. gueules, the same word as gueule throat, OF. gole, goule, L. gula. So named from the red color of the throat. See Gullet, and cf. Gula.] (Her.)

Defn: The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.

GULF Gulf, n. Etym: [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. bosom, bay, gulf, LGr.

1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. Luke xvi. 26.

2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] Shak.

3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. Shak. A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold. Tennyson.

4. (Geog.)

Defn: A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

5. (Mining)

Defn: A large deposit of ore in a lode. Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic.

Note: It originates in the westward equatorial current, due to the trade winds, is deflected northward by Cape St. Roque through the Gulf of Mexico, and flows parallel to the coast of North America, turning eastward off the island of Nantucket. Its average rate of flow is said to be about two miles an hour. The similar Japan current, or Kuro-Siwo, is sometimes called the Gulf Stream of the Pacific. -- Gulf weed (Bot.), a branching seaweed (Sargassum bacciferum, or sea grape), having numerous berrylike air vessels, -- found in the Gulf Stream, in the Sargasso Sea, and elsewhere.

GULFY Gulf"y, a.

Defn: Full of whirlpools or gulfs. Chapman.

GULGUL Gul"gul, n. Etym: [Hind. galgal.]

Defn: A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.

GULIST Gu"list, n. Etym: [L. gulo.]

Defn: A glutton. [Obs.]

GULL Gull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gulling.] Etym: [Prob. fr. gull the bird; but cf. OSw. gylla to deceive, D. kullen, and E. cullibility.]

Defn: To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

GULL Gull, n.

1. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak.

2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak.

GULL Gull, n. Etym: [Of Celtic origin; cf. Corn. gullan, W. gwylan.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

Note: Among the best known American species are the herring gull (Larus argentatus), the great black-backed gull (L. murinus) the laughing gull (L. atricilla), and Bonaparte's gull (L. Philadelphia). The common European gull is Larus canus. Gull teaser (Zoöl.), the jager; -- also applied to certain species of terns.

GULLAGE Gull"age, n.

Defn: Act of being gulled. [Obs.] Had you no quirk. To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature B. Jonson

GULLER Gull"er, n.

Defn: One who gulls; a deceiver.

GULLERY Gull"er*y, n.

Defn: An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

GULLET Gul"let, n. Etym: [OE. golet, OF. Goulet, dim. of gole, goule, throat, F. gueule, L. gula; perh. akin to Skr. gula, G. kenle; cf. F. goulet the neck of a bottle, goulotte channel gutter. Cf. Gules, Gully.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

2. Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as: (a) A channel for water. (b) (Engin.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons. (c) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

GULLETING Gul"let*ing, n. (Engin.)

Defn: A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

GULLIBLE Gul"li*ble, a.

Defn: Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.

GULLISH Gull"ish, a.

Defn: Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] Gull"ish*ness, n. [Obs.]

GULLY Gul"ly, n.; pl. Gulles. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain]

Defn: A large knife. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

GULLY Gul"ly, n.; pl. Gullies. Etym: [Formerly gullet.]

1. A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

2. A grooved iron rail or tram plate. [Eng.] Gully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

GULLY Gul"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gullied; p. pr. & vb. n. Gullying.]

Defn: To wear into a gully or into gullies.

GULLY Gul"ly, v. i.

Defn: To flow noisily. [Obs.] Johnson.

GULOSITY Gu*los"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. gulositas, fr. gulosus gluttonous. See Gullet.]

Defn: Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

GULP Gulp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gulped; p. pr. & vb. n. Gulping.] Etym: [D. gulpen, cf. OD. golpe gulf.]

Defn: To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

GULP Gulp, n.

1. The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

2. A disgorging. [Colloq.]

GULPH Gulph, n. [Obs.]

Defn: See Gulf.

GULT Gult, n.

Defn: Guilt. See Guilt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GULTY Gult"y, a.

Defn: Guilty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GULY Gul"y, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to gules; red. "Those fatal guly dragons." Milton.

GUM Gum, n. Etym: [OE. gome, AS. gama palate; akin Co G. gaumen, OHG. goumo, guomo, Icel. g, Sw. gom; cf. Gr.

Defn: The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws. Gum rash (Med.), strophulus in a teething child; red gum. -- Gum stick, a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.

GUM Gum, v. t.

Defn: To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

GUM Gum, n. Etym: [OE. gomme, gumme, F. gomme, L. gummi and commis, fr. Gr. kam; cf. It. gomma.]

1. A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: See Gum tree, below.

3. A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log. [Southern U. S.]

4. A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.] Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. -- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé. -- Gum arabic, a gum yielded mostly by several species of Acacia (chiefly A. vera and A. Arabica) growing in Africa and Southern Asia; -- called also gum acacia. East Indian gum arabic comes from a tree of the Orange family which bears the elephant apple. -- Gum butea, a gum yielded by the Indian plants Butea frondosa and B. superba, and used locally in tanning and in precipitating indigo. -- Gum cistus, a plant of the genus Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus), a species of rock rose.-- Gum dragon. See Tragacanth. -- Gum elastic, Elastic gum. See Caoutchouc. -- Gum elemi. See Elemi. -- Gum juniper. See Sandarac. -- Gum kino. See under Kino. -- Gum lac. See Lac. -- Gum Ladanum, a fragrant gum yielded by several Oriental species of Cistus or rock rose. -- Gum passages, sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (Amygdalaceæ, Cactaceæ, etc.), and affording passage for gum. -- Gum pot, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps, mixtures of, or having properties of, gum and resin; a resin containing more or less mucilaginous and gummy matter. -- Gum sandarac. See Sandarac. -- Gum Senegal, a gum similar to gum arabic, yielded by trees (Acacia Verek and A. Adansoniä) growing in the Senegal country, West Africa. -- Gum tragacanth. See Tragacanth. -- Gum tree, the name given to several trees in America and Australia: (a) The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow. (b) A tree of the genus Eucalyptus. See Eucalpytus. (c) The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice. -- Gum water, a solution of gum, esp. of gum arabic, in water. -- Gum wood, the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the Eucalyptus piperita, of New South Wales.

GUM Gum, v. t. [imp. &. p. Gummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.]

Defn: To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. He frets likke a gummed velvet.Shak.

GUM Gum, v. i.

Defn: To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

GUMBO Gum"bo, n. Etym: [Written aalso gombo.]

1. A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

2. The okra plant or its pods.

GUMBOIL Gum"boil, n. (Med.)

Defn: A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.

GUMMA Gum"ma, n.; pl. Gummata. Etym: [NL. So called from its gummy contents See Gum.] (Med.)

Defn: A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

GUMMATOUS Gum*ma"tous, a. (Med.)

Defn: Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.

GUMMER Gum"mer, n. Etym: [From 2d Gum.]

Defn: A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.

GUMMIFEROUS Gum*mif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. gummi gum + -ferous.]

Defn: Producing gum; gum-bearing.

GUMMINESS Gum"mi*ness, n.

Defn: The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.

GUMMITE Gum"mite, n. Etym: [So called because it occurs in rounded or flattened pieces which look like gum.] (Min.)