Webster's Dictionary 1828

1675

GUISE

GUISE, n. gize.1. External appearance; dress; garb. He appeared in the guise of a shepherd. The hypocrite wears the guise of religion. That love which is without dissimulation, ...

1676

GUISER

GUISER, noun gi'zer. A person in disguise; a mummer who goes about at Christmas.

1677

GUITAR

GUIT'AR, noun git'ar. [Latin cithara.] A stringed instrument of music; in England and the United States, used chiefly by ladies, but in Spain and Italy, much used by men.

1678

GULA

GU'LAGO'LA, noun An ogee or wavy member in a building; the cymatium.

1679

GULAUND

GU'LAUND, noun An aquatic fowl of a size between a duck and a goose; the breast and belly white; the head mallard green. It inhabits Iceland.

1680

GULCH

GULCH, noun A glutton; a swallowing or devouring. [Not used.]GULCH, verb transitive To swallow greedily. [Not used.]

1681

GULES

GULES, noun In heraldry, a term denoting red, intended perhaps to represent courage, animation or hardihood.

1682

GULF

GULF, noun1. A recess in the ocean from the general line of the shore into the land, or a tract of water extending from the ocean or a sea into the land, between two points or p...

1683

GULF-INDENTED

GULF-INDENT'ED, adjective Indented with gulfs or bays.

1684

GULFY

GULF'Y, adjective Full of whirlpools or gulfs; as a gulfy sea.

1685

GULL

GULL, verb transitive To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud.The vulgar, gull'd into rebellion, armed.GULL, noun A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.1...

1686

GULLCATCHER

GULL'CATCHER, noun A cheat; a man who cheats or entraps silly people.

1687

GULLED

GULL'ED, participle passive Cheated; deceived; defrauded.

1688

GULLER

GULL'ER, noun A cheat; an imposter.

1689

GULLERY

GULL'ERY, noun Cheat. [Not used.]

1690

GULLET

GUL'LET, noun [Latin gula.] The passage in the neck of an animal by which food and liquor are taken into the stomach; the esophagus.1. A stream or lake. [Not used.]

1691

GULLIED

GUL'LIED, participle passive Having a hollow worn by water.

1692

GULLISH

GULL'ISH, noun Foolish; stupid. [Not in use.]

1693

GULLISHNESS

GULL'ISHNESS, noun Foolishness; stupidity. [Not in use.]

1694

GULLY

GUL'LY, noun A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water.GUL'LY, verb transitive To wear a hollow channel in the earth.GUL'LY, verb intransitive To run with nois...

1695

GULLYHOLE

GUL'LYHOLE, noun An opening where gutters empty their contents into the subterraneous sewer.

1696

GULOSITY

GULOS'ITY, noun [Latin gulosus, from gula, the gullet.]Greediness; voracity; excessive appetite for food. [Little used.]

1697

GULP

GULP, verb transitive To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts.To gulp up, to throw up from the throat or stomach; to disgorge.GULP, noun A swallow, or as much as is swallowed a...

1698

GULPH

GULPH. [See Gulf.]

1699

GUM

GUM, noun The hard fleshy substance of the jaws which invests the teeth.GUM, noun [Latin gummi.] The mucilage of vegetables; a concrete juice which exudes through the bark of tr...

1700

GUM-ARABIC

GUM-AR'ABIC, noun A gum which flows from the acacia, in Arabia, Egypt, etc.GUM'-BOIL, noun A boil on the gum.

1701

GUM-RESIN

GUM-RESIN, noun [See Resin.] A mixed juice of plants, consisting of resin and an extractive matter, which has been taken for a gummy substance. The gum-resins do not flow natura...