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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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Gum-mōs'i-ty, n. p. 597Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality. [Rare.] Flögel.Gūm'moŭs, a. p. 597Gum-like, or composed of gum; gummy. Woodward.Gŭm'my, a. p. 597Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive. Nor all the gummy stores Arabia yields. Dryden. 2. Productive of gum. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. 3. Covered with gum or viscous matter.…Gŭmp, n. p. 597A foolish person; a dolt; a dunce. [Low.] Holloway.Gŭmp'tion, n. p. 597Capacity; shrewdness; address. [Colloq.] 2. (Paint.) (a.) The art of preparing colors. W. Scott. (b.) Magilp. See MAGILP.Gŭm'-răsh, n. p. 597(Med.) A cutaneous disease; red-gum. Hoblyn.Gŭm'-rĕs'in, n. p. 597The milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps; — so called from their being mixtures of, or having the properties of, gum and resin.Gŭm'-tree, n. p. 597(Bot.) (a.) The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States. Its small blue fruit is the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow. (b.) A…Gŭm'-wood, n. p. 597The wood of the Eucalyptus piperita, or blue gum-tree, of New South Wales. Ure.Gŭn, n. p. 597A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any fire-arm or instrument, except the pistol and mortar, for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or…Gŭn, v. i. p. 597To practice fowling or hunting small game; — used chiefly in the participial form; as, to go gunning.Gü'nar-chy, n. p. 597The same as GYNARCHY. [Obs.]Gŭn'-bär'rel, n. p. 597The barrel or tube of a gun.Gūn'-bōat, n. p. 597(Mil.) A boat or small vessel of light draught, fitted to carry one or more guns.Gŭn'-cär'riağe, n. p. 597The carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved.Gŭn'-cŏt'ton p. 597m. A highly explosive substance obtained by soaking cotton, or any other vegetable fiber, in nitric and sulphuric acids, and then leaving it to dry. It is occasionally used as a substitute for…Gŭn'-dĕck, n. p. 597(Naut.) A lower deck of a ship where the gun-room is.Gŭn'de-let, n. p. 597A gondola. [Obs.] Marston.Gŭn'-fire, n. p. 597(Mil.) The hour at which the morning or evening gun is fired. Campbell.Gūn'jah, n. p. 597(Bot.) The dried hemp-plant (Cannabis sativa) from which the resinous juice has not been removed. It is smoked, in India, for its narcotic effects. Johnston.Gŭn'-mĕt'al, n. p. 597An alloy of nine parts of copper and one part of tin, used for cannon, &c. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast-iron. [U. S.]Gŭn'nage, n. p. 597The number of guns in a ship of war.Gün'nel, n. p. 597A gunwale. 2. (Ichth.) A little spotted fish of the genus Murænoides, found on the Northern Atlantic shores.Gŭn'ner, n. p. 597One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; also, a warrant-officer in the navy having charge of all the ordnance of a vessel. Totten.Gŭn'ner-y, n. p. 597That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles and the manner of employing ordnance.Gŭn'ning, n. p. 597The act of hunting or shooting game with a gun. In the earlier times, the art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.Gūn'ny, n. p. 597A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage and a…Gu-nōe'ra-cy, n. p. 597The same as GYNEOCRACY.Gŭn'-pōrt, n. p. 597(Naut.) An opening in a ship for a cannon.Gŭn'pow·der, n. p. 597A mixture of saltpeter, sulphur, and charcoal separately pulverized, then granulated and dried.Gunpowder tea p. 597a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet. S. W. Williams.Gŭn'reach, n. p. 597The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.Gŭn'-rōōm, n. p. 597(Naut.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun-deck of a ship of war, occupied by the gunner or as a mess-room by the lieutenants. The officers' mess-room is called a ward-room in the…Gŭn'shŏt, n. p. 597(Mil.) The distance of the point-blank range of a cannon-shot. Totten. 2. The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun. Those who are come…Gŭn'shŏt, a. p. 597Made by the shot of a gun; as, a gunshot wound.Gŭn'smith, n. p. 597A maker of small arms; one whose occupation is to make or repair small fire-arms; an armorer.Gŭn'smith'er-y, n. p. 597The business of a gunsmith; the art of making small fire-arms.Gŭn'ster, n. p. 597A gunner. [Rare.] Tatler.Gŭn'stick, n. p. 597A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, &c.; a rammer or ramrod. [Rare.]Gŭn'stŏck, n. p. 597The stock or wood in which the barrel of a gun is fixed.Gŭn'stōne, n. p. 597A stone used for the shot of cannon. Before the invention of iron balls, stones were used for shot. [Obs.] Shak.Gŭn'-tăck/le, n. p. 597The blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun-carriage is run to and from the port-hole. Gun-tackle purchase (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. Totten.Gūn’ter’s Chāin p. 597The chain commonly used for measuring land. It is four rods, or 66 feet, long, and is divided into 100 links.Gün’ter’s Line p. 597A logarithmic line on Gunter’s scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; — called also line of lines, and line of numbers; also, a sliding…Gün’ter’s Seäle p. 597A wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, &c., and on the other side, of logarithms of these various parts, by means of…Gŭn’wale, n. p. 597(Naut.) The upper edge of a ship’s side; the uppermost wale of a ship, or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which…Gürge, n. p. 597A whirlpool. [Obs.] The plain wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.Gürge, v. t. p. 597To swallow. [Obs.]Gŭr'geons, n. pl. p. 597The coarser part of meal separated from the bran; grudgeons. [Obs.] Holinshed.Gûr'gle, v. i. p. 597To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream on a stony bottom. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage…Gûr'gle, n. p. 597A gush or flow of liquid. Thomson.Gûr'glet, n. p. 597A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.Gûr'gling-ly, adv. p. 597In a gurgling manner.Gür'goyle, n. p. 597See GARGOYLE.Gür'hof-ite, n. p. 597(Min.) A compact, snowy-white subtranslucent variety of dolomite; — so named from a locality of it at Gurhof, in Lower Austria.Gūr'jun, n. p. 597A thin balsam or oil derived from trees, and obtained in the East Indies. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed-oil in the coarser kinds of paint.Gür'my, n. p. 597(Mining.) A level; a working. Simmonds.Gūr'nard or Gūr'net, n. p. 597(Ichth.) A sea-fish of the genus Trigla, having a large and spiny head with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. Ash.Gūr'rah, n. p. 597A kind of plain, coarse Indian muslin.Gür'ry, n. p. 597An alvine evacuation. [Obs.] Holland.