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.

A glutton.

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

Act of being gulled.

One who gulls; a deceiver.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.

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

A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

Easily gulled; that may be duped.

Foolish; stupid.

To flow noisily.

Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.

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

See Gulf.

Guilt. See Guilt.

Guilty.

Of or pertaining to gules; red.

To exude or form gum; to become gummy.

Any tree that exudes a gum, 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. A tree of the genus Eucalyptus; a eucalypt. See Eucalpytus. 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. The sour gum tree.

an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar.

A piece of chewing gum in the shape of a ball, usually covered with a colored glaze of sugar. They are often sold in a small, special-purpose coin-operated vending machine called a gumball machine.

A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. A thick stew made with chicken (chicken gumbo), or seafood (seafood gumbo), thickened with okra or file, and also containing greens and often hot spices; it is particularly popular in Louisiana.

A tropical American tree (Bursera simaruba) yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.

A small suppurating inflamed spot on the gum.

A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.

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

Producing gum; gum-bearing.

The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.

A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.

Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature.

Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.

Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.

A dolt; a dunce.

enterprising.

A piece of athletic equipment that protects an athlete's mouth.

A detective; a private eye.

any of various Western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock.

wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum.

To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

To pursue with the intent to kill.

In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

See Gynarchy.

A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns, used for operations in shallow waters.

See Gondola.

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

See Ganja.

any thick gooey and messy substance.

The mechanism of a gun for producing the discharge. See Lock.

The number of guns carried by a ship of war.

A gunwale.

One who works a gun or cannon, whether on land, sea, or in the air; a cannoneer.

That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.

Space left by the removal of ore.

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.

See Gyneocracy.

An instance of the firing of small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.

The muzzle's direction; as, he held me up at gunpoint.

A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.

An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.

Act of firing a gun; a shot.

Made by the shot of a gun; as, a gunshot wound.

A sight{9} attached to a gun, used for aiming it at the target. Same as sight{9}.

One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

The art or business of a gunsmith.

A gunner.

A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.

The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.

The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.

The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.

A small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies (Lebistes reticulatus or Poecilia reticulata, originaly called Gerardinus guppyi), often kept in aquariums; also called rainbow fish.

To swallow up.

See Grudgeons.

Coarse meal.

The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise.

A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.

In a gurgling manner.

See Gargoyle.

A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus l/vis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

A young person of either sex. See Girl.

A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge.

A level; a working.

One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins.

See Gwiniad.

A small fort.

A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

Groats.

Same as gooroo.

A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor among the Hindus; a guru.

A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.

One who gushes.

Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters.

In a gushing manner; copiously.

extravagantly demonstrative; gushing{2}; as, to write unrestrained and gushy poetry.

A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.

provided or reinforced with gussets. Opposite of ungusseted.

dressed up; well-dressed; as, all gussied up in sequins and feathers.

To taste; to have a relish for.

Anything that can be tasted.

The great bustard.

The act of tasting.

of or pertaining to taste.

Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.

Gusty.

Tasteless; insipid.

Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy; as, he ate it with gusto.

Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.

Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.

To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

lacking courage or vitality; as, he was a yellow gutless worm. Opposite of gutsy.

marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger.

A drop.

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra Gutta, syn. Dichopsis Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.

Spotted, as if discolored by drops.

Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots.

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

A bowl in which the ball falls into the gutter{4}, resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.