any thick gooey and messy substance.
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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.
The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
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A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.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.
A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. A curbstone broker.
A plant that exudes gum or resin.
Yielding gum or resinous substances. Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttifer/) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.
Drop-shaped, as a spot of color.
To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize.
A greedy eater; a glutton.
In droplike form.
A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.
The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.].
The quality of being guttural.
To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to.
In a guttural manner.
The quality of being guttural.
Pertaining to the throat.
To make in the throat; to gutturalize.
Charged or sprinkled with drops.
A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.
A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
A native or inhabitant of Guyana.
To guile.
A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
An insatiable thing or person.
An immoderate drinker.
A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly.
See Gayal.
To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
See Jib.
To guide; to govern.
Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
A genus of North American terrestrial orchids usually included in the genus Habenaria.
Same as Gimmal.
An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.
A gymnast.
Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- originally said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; in modern times more specifically applied to athletic exercises demonstrating balance and agility, such as tumbling, somersaulting, and bodily maneuvers performed on special equipment such as parallel bars or a balance beam; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
In a gymnastic manner.
Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises.
Athletic exercise.
Athletic; gymnastic.
A hydrous silicate of magnesia.
The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.
Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.
A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra.
A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.
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