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.

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.

A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having set/ only in the cephalic appendages.

A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus.

A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus.

One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.

One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.

A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.

An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome.

The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting.

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilop/dic; -- said of certain birds.

An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha.

A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medus/; the hydromedus/. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.

A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.

Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.

One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell.

One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.

The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.

A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.

Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel. Belonging to the class of plants consisting of gymnosperms.

The Athecata.

A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.

To begin. See Gin.

The same as Gynecian.

That part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women.

The branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of women; same as gynecology.

A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of H/matozoa.

A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

A class of plants in the Linn/an system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.

An animal affected with gynandromorphism.

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Affected with gynandromorphism.

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.

Government by a woman.

See Gyn/ceum.

Of or relating to women.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy.

Of or pertaining to gynecology.

Of or pertaining to gynecology; same as gynecological.

The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.

See Gynecocracy.

The adoration or worship of woman.

Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women.

To begin. See Gin.

A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.

Female government; gynecocracy.

Di/cious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.