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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Guīn'ea, n. p. 596A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but no longer issued. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was…Guin'ea-côrn, n. p. 596(Bot.) The great or Indian millet, a variety of the Sorghum vulgare.Guīn'ea-drōp'per, n. p. 596One who cheats by dropping guineas.Guïn'ea-fowl, n. p. 596(Or-nith.) A fowl (the Numida meleagris), closely allied to the peacocks and to the turkeys, originally brought from Africa. It is larger than the common hen, has a colored fleshy horn on each side…Guīn'ea-grāins, n. pl. p. 596Grains of paradise.Guīn'ea-grāss, n. p. 596(Bot.) A tall, strong forage grass (Panicum maximum of Jacquin), introduced from the west coast of Africa into the West Indies and Southern States of America. Simmonds.Guïn'ea-hēn, n. p. 596See GUINEA-FOWL.Guin'ea-pep'per, n. p. 596(Bot.) The seeds of two different plants of the genus Amomum (A. granaparadisi, and A. grandiflorum), found in Africa and the East India islands, having a hot, biting taste, and, being aromatic and…Guin'ea-pig, n. p. 596(Zoöl.) A small Brazilian rodent; the Cavia cobaya. It is about seven inches in length, and of a white color, with spots of orange and black.Guin'ea-worm, n. p. 596(Zoöl.) An entozoid worm found in Africa (the Filaria medinensis), that burrows in the human cellular tissue. It is round, whitish, and attains considerable length.Guin'i-ad, n. p. 596See GWINIAD.Guipure, n. p. 596An imitation of antique lace, which is durable, less expensive, and equally beautiful; also, a kind of gimp. Simmonds.Guir'-land, n. p. 596A garland. [Obs.] Holland.Guise, n. p. 596External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; behavior; mien. “As then the guise was for each gentle swain.” Spenser. A vast, tremendous, unformed specter, in a…Guīz'er, n. p. 596A person in disguise; a mummer who goes about at Christmas.Gui-tär', n. p. 596A stringed instrument of music resembling the violin, but larger, and having six strings, played upon with the fingers, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut.Gū'la, n. p. 596(Arch.) An ogee, or wavy member in a building; the cymatium.Gū'lar, a. p. 596Pertaining to the throat.Gū'laund, n. p. 596(Ornith.) An aquatic fowl, of a size between a duck and a goose, the breast and belly white, the head mallard-green. It inhabits Iceland. Pennant.Gūlch, n. p. 596A glutton; a swallowing or devouring. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. A ravine, or dry water-course; a gully.Gŭlch, v. t. p. 596To swallow greedily. [Obs.]Gūle, v. t. p. 596To give the color of gules to. Heywood.Gūles, n. p. 596(Her.) A red color; red;—intended, perhaps, to represent courage, animation, or hardihood, and indicated in engraved figures of escutcheons and the like by straight perpendicular lines. Full on this…Gūlf, n. p. 596A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. 2. (Geog.) A wide opening filled from the sea; the entrance of the ocean into the…Gŭlf'-strēam, n. p. 596(Geog.) A warm current in the Atlantic Ocean running from the Gulf of Mexico along the shores of the United States, and continuing over the North-eastern Atlantic.Gūlf'-weed, n. p. 596(Bot.) A branching sea-weed (the Sargassum bacciferum, or sea-grape), having numerous grape-like air-vessels, and found in the gulf-stream.Gŭlf'y, a. p. 596Full of whirlpools or gulfs. To pass the gulfy purple sea that did no sea-rites know. Chapman.Gū'list, n. p. 596A glutton. [Obs.] Fealty.Gŭll, v. t. p. 596To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud. The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.Gŭll, n. p. 596A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak. 2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak.Gŭll, n. p. 596(Ornith.) A web-footed sea-fowl, of the genus Larus, with long, narrow wings and with a straight beak hooked at the tip. The common gull is the Larus zonorhynchus. Great black-backed Gull. ☞ Why the…Gŭll'age, n. p. 596Act of being gulled. [Obs.] Had you no quirk To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature? B. Jonson.Gŭll'-cătch'er, n. p. 596One who catches gulls; one who deceives or entraps silly people. Shak.Gŭll'er, n. p. 596One who gulls.Gŭll'er-y, n. p. 596An act, or the practice, of gulling. [Obs.] “A mere gullery.” Selden.Gŭl'let, n. p. 596(Anat.) The passage in the neck of an animal by which food and liquor are taken into the stomach; the esophagus. 2. Something shaped like the food-passage, or performing similar functions; as, (a.) A…Gŭl/li-bil'i-ty, n. p. 596The quality or state of being gullible. [Colloq.] J. Foster.Gŭl'li-ble, a. p. 596Easily gulled. [Colloq.]Gŭll'ish, a. p. 596Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] They have most part some gullish humor or other. Burton.Gŭll'ish-ness, n. p. 596The quality or state of being gullish. [Obs.]Gŭl'ly, n. p. 596A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a gulch. 2. A large knife. [Scot.] W. Scott. 3. An iron rail or tram-plate. Francis.Gŭl'ly, v. t. p. 596To wear into a gully or into gullies; to make by a gully or by gullies.Găl'ly, v. i. p. 596To run with noise. [Obs.] Johnson.Găl'ly-găt, n. p. 596A glutton. [Obs.] Chapman.Gål'ly-hōle, n. p. 596An opening where gutters empty their contents into the subterraneous sewer. Johnson.Gu-lōs'i-ty, n. p. 596Excessive fondness for the pleasures of the table; greediness; voracity. [Rare.] Browne.Gŭlp, v. t. p. 596To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up. In all comic meters, the gulping of short syllables, and the abbreviation of syllables . . . are not so much a license as a law. Coleridge. To…Gŭlp, n. p. 596The act of taking a large swallow; a swallow, or as much as is swallowed at once. 2. A disgorging.Gŭlph, n. p. 596The same as GULF. [Obs.]Gŭl'y, a. p. 596Of, or pertaining to, gules. “To rear the horrid standard of those guly red dragons.” Milton.Gŭm, n. p. 596The hard, fleshy substance covering the jaws and investing the teeth.Gŭm, n. p. 596A vegetable secretion in the juices of many 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…Gŭm, v. t. p. 596To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or gum-like substance. He frets like a gummed velvet. Shak.Gŭm'bo, n. p. 597A dish composed of okra, tomatoes, and a little mustard together.Gūm'-boil, n. p. 597A boil or small abscess on the gum; — often caused by carious teeth.Gūm-cis'tus, n. p. 597(Bot.) A plant of the genus Cistus (C. ladaniferus), a species of rock-rose.Gŭm'ma, n. p. 597(Med.) A kind of soft tumor; — so called from the resemblance of its contents to gum.Gum-mif'er-oŭs, a. p. 597Producing gum.Gŭm’mi-ness, n. p. 597The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness. 2. Accumulation of gum. Wiseman.Gum-mōs'i-ty, n. p. 597Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality. [Rare.] Flögel.