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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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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.Gür'ry, n. p. 597A small fort. [India.]Gūrt, n. p. 598(Mining.) A gutter or channel for water hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page. 2. (pl.) Groats. [Obs.] Holland.Gūsh, v. i. p. 598To flow copiously; to issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement. He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps. lxxviii. 20. A sea of blood gushed…Gūsh, v. t. p. 598To emit in a copious manner. [Rare.] The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. Dryden.Gūsh, n. p. 598A rapid outflowing; a sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted. The gush of springs, And fall of…Gŭsh'ing, p. a. p. 598Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. “Gushing blood.” Milton. 2. Emitting copiously, as tears; hence, ready or easily made to shed tears; weakly and…Gūsh'ing-ly, adv. p. 598In a gushing manner; weakly; sentimentally. [Colloq.]Gŭs'set, n. p. 598A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening or enlarging some part. 2. (Mach.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to…Gŭst, n. p. 598The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish. The joyous oil, whose gentle gust Made him so frolic. Spenser. An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite. Bp. Taylor. 2.…Gūst, v. t. p. 598To taste; to have a relish of. [Obs.] Shak.Gūst, n. p. 598A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden rushing or driving of the wind, of short duration. “Stormy gust and flaw.” Milton. 2. A sudden, violent burst of passion. Bacon.Gūst'a-ble, a. p. 598Capable of being tasted; tastable. This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter. Harvey. 2. Pleasant to the taste. A gustable thing…Gūst'a-ble, n. p. 598Any thing that can be tasted. [Obs.]Gus-tā'tion, n. p. 598The act of tasting. [Rare.] Browne.Gūst'a-to-ry, a. p. 598Pertaining to gust or taste.Gūst'ful, a. p. 598Tasteful; well-tasted. [Obs.] Digby.Gūst'ful-ness, n. p. 598The quality or state of being gustful. [Obs.] Barrow.Gūst'less, a. p. 598Tasteless; insipid. [Obs.] Browne.Gūs'to, n. p. 598Nice appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy. Dryden.Gys-tō'so, adv. p. 598(Mus.) In a tasteful manner; elegantly.Gūst'y, a. p. 598Subject to, or attended by, gusts; stormy; tempestuous. Once upon a raw and gusty day. The troubled Tiber, chafing with his shores. Shak.Gŭt, n. p. 598The intestinal canal of an animal. 2. The whole mass formed by the natural convolutions of the intestine in the abdomen. 3. Gluttony; love of gormandizing. [Low.] 4. The substance made by pulling in…Gŭt, v. t. p. 598To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate. 2. To plunder of contents; to destroy the interior of; as, the mob gutted the house. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its…Gŭt'tă, n. p. 598A drop. 2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order.Gŭt'tă-pēr'chă, n. p. 598A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Icosandra gutta. It becomes soft and impressible at the temperature of boiling water, and on cooling…Gŭt'ta Se-rē'na p. 598(Med.) Amaurosis; blindness occasioned by a palsied retina.Gŭt'tate, a. p. 598(Bot.) Spotted, as if by drops. Gray.Gŭt'tā-ted, a. p. 598Besprinkled with drops. Bailey.Gūt'tā-trāp, n. p. 598The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (the A. incisa, or bread-fruit tree), sometimes used in making bird-lime, on account of its glutinous quality.Gŭt'ter, n. p. 598A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain. 2. A small channel at the road side or elsewhere. “Gutters running with ale, and conduits spouting claret.” Macaulay.Gŭt'ter, v. t. p. 598To cut or form into small, longitudinal hollows.Gŭt'ter, v. i. p. 598To become hollowed or channeled, as a candle.Gŭt'ter-ing, n. p. 598Gutters or channels for carrying off water from the roofs of houses.