GU'ANA, noun A species of lizard, found in the warmer parts of America.

GUANACO, noun The lama, or camel of South America, in a wild state.

GU'ANO, noun A substance found on many isles in the Pacific, which are frequented by fowls; used as a manure.

GU'ARA, noun A bird of Brazil, the Tantalus ruber, about the size of a spoonbill. When first hatched, it is black; it afterward changes to gray, and then to vivid red.

GUARANTEE', noun A warrantor. [See Guaranty, the noun.]

GUAR'ANTIED, participle passive gar'antied. Warranted. [See the Verb.]

GUAR'ANTOR, noun gar'antor. A warrantor; one who engages to see that the stipulations of another are performed; also, one who engages to secure another in any right or possession.

GUAR'ANTY, verb transitive gar'anty. [Eng. to ward; allied to warren, etc. See Warrant.]

1. To warrant; to make sure; to undertake or engage that another person shall perform what he has stipulated; to oblige one's self to see that another's engagements are performed; to secure the performance of; as, to guaranty the execution of a treaty.

2. To undertake to secure to another, at all events, as claims, rights or possessions. Thus in the treaty of 1778, France guarantied to the United States their liberty, sovereignty and independence, and their possessions; and the United States guarantied to France its possessions in America.

The United States shall guaranty to every state in the Union a republican form of government.

3. To indemnify; to save harmless.

[Note. This verb, whether written guaranty or guarantee, forms an awkward participle of the present tense; and we cannot relish either guarantying or guaranteeing. With the accent on the first syllable, as now pronounced, it seems expedient to drop the y in the participle, and write guaranting.]

GUAR'ANTY, noun

1. An undertaking or engagement by a third person or party, that the stipulations of a treaty shall be observed by the contracting parties or by one of them; an undertaking that the engagement or promise of another shall be performed.

2. One who binds himself to see the stipulations of another performed; written also guarantee.

GUARD, verb transitive gard. [Latin verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware; ]

1. To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety. We guard a city by walls and forts. A harbor is guarded by ships, booms or batteries. Innocence should be guarded by prudence and piety. Let observation and experience guard us against temptations to vice.

2. To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.

Homer has guarded every circumstance with caution.

3. To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.

4. To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.

5. To gird; to fasten by binding.

GUARD, verb intransitive To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety. guard against mistakes, or against temptations.

GUARD, noun [Eng. ward.]

1. Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.

2. That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends. Modesty is the guard of innocence.

3. A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise. Kings have their guards to secure their persons. Joseph was sold to Potiphar, a captain of Pharaoh's guard

4. A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed. Be on your guard Temerity puts a man off his guard

5. That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.

They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I.

6. Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.

7. In fencing, a posture of defense.

8. An ornamental lace, hem or boarder.

Advanced guard

Van guard In military affairs, a body of troops, either horse or foot, that march before an army or division, to prevent surprise, or give notice of danger.

Rear guard a body of troops that march in the rear of an army or division, for its protection.

Life guard a body of select troops, whose duty is to defend the person of a prince or other officer.

GUARD'-BOAT, noun A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to observe that their officers keep a good look-out.

GUARD'-CHAMBER, noun A guard-room. 1 Kings 14:27.

GUARD'ABLE, adjective That may be protected.

GUARD'AGE, noun Wardship.

GUARD'ANT, adjective Acting as guardian.

1. In heraldry, having the face turned toward the spectator.

GUARD'ED, participle passive Defended; protected; accompanied by a guard; provided with means of defense.

1. Cautions; circumspect. He was guarded in his expressions.

2. Framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded

GUARD'EDLY, adverb With circumspection.

GUARD'EDNESS, noun Caution; circumspection.

GUARD'ER, noun One that guards.

GUARD'FUL, adjective Wary; cautious.

GUARD'IAN, noun

1. A warden; one who guards, preserves or secures; one to whom any thing is committed for preservation from injury.

2. In law, one who is chosen or appointed to take charge of the estate and education of an orphan who is a minor, or of any person who is not of sufficient discretion to manage his own concerns. The person committed to the care of a guardian is called his ward.

Guardian of the spiritualities, the person to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese is entrusted, during the vacancy of the see.

GUARD'IAN, adjective Protection; performing the office of a protector; as a guardian angel; guardian care.

GUARD'IANESS, noun A female guardian. [Not in use.]

GUARD'IANSHIP, noun The office of a guardian; protection; care; watch.

GUARD'ING, participle present tense Defending; protecting; securing; attending for protection.

GUARD'LESS, adjective Without a guard or defense.

GUARD'SHIP, noun Care; protection. [Little used.]

GUA'RISH, verb transitive To heal.

GU'AVA, noun An American tree, and its fruit, of the genus Psidium. It is of two species, or rather varieties, the pyriferum or white guava and pomiferum or red guava The fruit or berry is large and oval-shaped, like a pomegranate, which it resembles in its astringent quality. The pulp is of an agreeable flavor, and of this fruit is made a delicious jelly.

GU'BERNATE, verb transitive [Latin guberno.] To govern. [Not used.]

GUBERNA'TION, noun [Latin gubernatio. See Govern.]

Government; rule; direction. [Little used.]

GU'BERNATIVE, adjective Governing.

GUBERNATO'RIAL, adjective [Latin gubernator.] Pertaining to government, or to a governor.

GUD'GEON, noun gud'jin. A small fish of the genus Cyprinus, a fish easily caught, and hence,

1. A person easily cheated or ensnared.

2. A bait; allurement; something to be caught to a man's disadvantage.

3. An iron pin on which a wheel turns.

Sea-gudgeon, the black goby or rock fish.

GUELF

GUELPH, noun The Guelfs, so called from the name of a family, composed a faction formerly in Italy, opposed to the Gibelines.

GUELPH, n. The Guelfs, so called from the name of a family, composed a faction formerly in Italy, opposed to the Gibelines.

GUER'DON, noun ger'don. A reward; requital; recompense; in a good or bad sense.

GUER'DON, verb transitive To reward.

GUER'DONLESS, adjective Unrecompensed.

GUESS, verb transitive ges. [Latin conjicio; Eng. to gush.]

1. To conjecture; to form an opinion without certain principles or means of knowledge; to judge at random, either of a present unknown fact, or of a future fact.

First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess

2. To judge or form an opinion from some reasons that render a thing probable, but fall short of sufficient evidence. From slight circumstances or occasional expressions, we guess an author's meaning.

3. To hit upon by accident.

GUESS, verb intransitive To conjecture; to judge at random. We do not know which road to take, but we must guess at it.

GUESS, noun Conjecture; judgment without any certain evidence or grounds.

A poet must confess

His arts like physic, but a happy guess

GUESS'ED, participle passive Conjectured; divined.

GUESS'ER, noun One who guesses; a conjecturer; one who judges or gives an opinion without certain means of knowing.

GUESS'ING, participle present tense Conjecturing; judging without certain evidence, or grounds of opinion.

GUESS'INGLY, adverb By way of conjecture.

GUEST, noun gest. [Latin visito; Eng. visit.]

1. A stranger; one who comes from a distance, and takes lodgings at a place, either for a night or for a longer time.

2. A visitor; a stranger or friend, entertained in the house or at the table of another, whether by invitation or otherwise.

The wedding was furnished with guests. Matthew 22:10.

GUEST'-CHAMBER, noun An apartment appropriated to the entertainment of guests. Mark 14:1.

GUEST'-RITE, noun Office due to a guest

GUEST'-ROPE

GUESS'-ROPE, noun A rope to tow with, or to make fast a boat.

GUEST'WISE, adverb In the manner of a guest.

GUGGLE. [See Gurgle.]

GUHR, noun A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.

GUIDABLE, adjective That may be guided or governed by counsel.

GUIDAGE, noun [See Guide.] The reward given to a guide for services. [Little used.]

GUIDANCE, noun [See Guide.] The act of guiding; direction; government; a leading. Submit to the guidance of age and wisdom.

GUIDE, verb transitive gide.

1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; as, to guide an enemy or a traveler, who is not acquainted with the road or course.

The meek will he guide in judgment. Psalms 25:9.

2. To direct; to order.

He will guide his affairs with discretion. Psalms 112:5,

3. To influence; to give direction to. Men are guided by their interest, or supposed interest.

4. To instruct and direct. Let parents guide their children to virtue, dignity and happiness.

5. To direct; to regulate and manage; to superintend.

I will that the younger women marry, bear children, and guide the house. 1 Timothy 5:14.

GUIDE, noun

1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course; a conductor. The army followed the guide The traveler may be deceived by his guide

2. One who directs another in his conduct or course of life.

He will be our guide even unto death. Psa 48.

3. A director; a regulator; that which leads or conducts. Experience is one of our best guides.

GUIDED, participle passive Led; conducted; directed in the way; instructed and directed.

GUIDELESS, adjective Destitute of a guide; wanting a director.

GUIDEPOST, noun A post at the forks of a road, for directing travelers the way.

GUIDER, noun A guide; one who guides or directs.

GUIDING, participle present tense Leading; conducting; directing; superintending.

GUIDON, noun The flag or standard of a troop of cavalry; or the standard-bearer.

GUILD, noun gild. In England, a society, fraternity or company, associated for some purpose, particularly for carrying on commerce. The merchant-guilds of our ancestors, answer to our modern corporations. They were licensed by the king, and governed by laws and orders of their own. Hence the name Guild-hall, the great court of judicature in London.

GUID'ABLE, adjective Liable to a tax.

GUILDER, noun [See Gilder.]

GUILDLESS, adjective Free from guile or deceit; artless; frank; sincere; honest.

GUILE, noun gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.

We may, with more successful hope, resolve

To wage by force or guile eternal war.

Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile John 1:47.

GUILE, verb transitive To disguise craftily.

GUILEFUL, adjective Cunning; drafty; artful; wily; deceitful; insidious; as a guileful person.

1. Treacherous; deceitful.

2. Intended to deceive; as guileful words.

GUILEFULLY, adverb Artfully; insidiously; treacherously.

GUILEFULNESS, noun Deceit, secret treachery.

GUILELESSNESS, noun Simplicity; freedom from guile.

GUILER, noun One who betrays into danger by insidious arts. [Not used.]

GUIL'LEMOT, noun A water fowl of the genus Colymbus, and order of ansers. It is found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America.

GUIL'LOTIN, noun An engine or machine for beheading persons at a stroke.

GUIL'LOTIN, verb transitive To behead with the guillotin

GUILLS, noun A plant, the corn marigold.

GUILT, noun gilt.

1. Criminality; that state of a moral agent which results from his actual commission of a crime or offense, knowing it to be a crime, or violation of law. To constitute guilt there must be a moral agent enjoying freedom of will, and capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and a wilful or intentional violation of a known law, or rule of duty. The guilt of a person exists, as soon as the crime is committed; but to evince it to others, it must be proved by confession, or conviction in due course of law. guilt renders a person a debtor to the law, as it binds him to pay a penalty in money or suffering. guilt therefore implies both criminality and liableness to punishment. guilt may proceed either from a positive act or breach of law, or from voluntary neglect of known duty.

2. Criminality in a political or civil view; exposure to forfeiture or other penalty.

A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade.

3. Crime; offense.

GUILT'ILY, adverb In a manner to incur guilt, not innocently.

GUILT'INESS, noun The state of being guilty; wickedness; criminality; guilt.

GUILT'LESS, adjective Free from guilt, crime or offense; innocent.

The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7.

1. Not produced by the slaughter of animals.

But from the mountain's grassy side

A guiltless feast I bring.

GUILT'LESSLY, adverb Without guilt; innocently.

GUILT'LESSNESS, noun Innocence; freedom from guilt or crime.

GUILT'-SICK, adjective Diseased in consequence of guilt.

GUILT'Y, adjective gilt'y. Criminal; having knowingly committed a crime or offense, or having violated a law by an overt act or by neglect, and by that act or neglect, being liable to punishment; not innocent. It may be followed by of; as, to be guilty of theft or arson.

Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.

1. Wicked; corrupt; sinful; as a guilty world.

2. Conscious.

In Scripture, to be guilty of death, is to have committed a crime which deserves death. Matthew 26:66.

To be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, is to be chargeable with the crime of crucifying Christ afresh, and offering indignity to his person and righteousness, represented by the symbols of the Lord's supper. 1 Corinthians 11:27.

GUIN'EA, noun gin'ny. Formerly, a gold coin in Great Britain of the value of twenty one shillings sterling, equal to $4.66 2/3rds, American money.

GUIN'IAD

GUISE, noun 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, wears not the guise of modern liberality.

2. Manner; mien; cast of behavior.

By their guise

Just men they seem.

3. Custom; mode; practice.

The swain replied, it never was our guise,

To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

GUISE, n. gize.

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

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.

GU'LA

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

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.

GULCH, noun A glutton; a swallowing or devouring. [Not used.]

GULCH, verb transitive To swallow greedily. [Not used.]

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

GULF, noun

1. 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 promontories; a large bay; as the gulf of Mexico; the gulf of Venice; the gulf of Finland. A gulf and a bay differ only in extent. We apply bay to a large or small recess of the sea, as the bay of Biscay, the bay of Fundy; but gulf is applied only to a large extent of water.

2. An abyss; a deep place in the earth; as the gulf of Avernus.

3. A whirlpool; an absorbing eddy.

4. Any thing insatiable.

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

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. One easily cheated.

GULL, noun A marine fowl of the genus Larus, and order of ansers. There are several species.

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

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

GULL'ER, noun A cheat; an imposter.

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

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.]

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

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

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

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 noise. [Not in use.]

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

GULOS'ITY, noun [Latin gulosus, from gula, the gullet.]

Greediness; voracity; excessive appetite for food. [Little used.]

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 at once.

1. A disgorging.

GULPH. [See Gulf.]

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 trees, and thickens on the surface. It is soluble in water, to which it gives a viscous and adhesive quality. It is insoluble in alcohol, and coagulates in weak acids. When dry, it is transparent and brittle, not easily pulverized, and of an insipid or slightly saccharine taste. gum differs from resin in several particulars, but custom has inaccurately given the name of gum to several resins and gum-resins, as gum-copal. gum-sandarach, gum-ammoniac, and others. The true gums are gumarabic, gum-senegal, gum-tragacanth, and the gums of the peach, plum and cherry trees, etc.

GUM-elastic, or Elastic-gum, [caoutchouc, ] is a singular substance, obtained from a tree in America by incision. It is a white juice, which, when dry, becomes very tough and elastic, and is used for bottles, surgical instruments, etc.

GUM, verb transitive To smear with gum

1. To unite by a viscous substance.

GUM'LAC, noun The produce of an insect which deposits its eggs on the branches of a tree called bihar, in Assam, a country bordering on Tibet, and elsewhere in Asia. [See Lac.]

GUM'MINESS, noun The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.

1. Accumulation of gum.

GUMMOS'ITY, noun The nature of gum; gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality.

GUM'MOUS, adjective Of the nature or quality of gum; viscous; adhesive.

GUM'MY, adjective Consisting of gum; of the nature of gum; viscous; adhesive.

1. Productive of gum.

2. Covered with gum or viscous matter.

GUMP, noun A foolish person; a dolt. [Vulgar.]

GUMP'TION, noun Care; skill; understanding. [Vulgar.]

GUN, noun An instrument consisting of a barrel or tube of iron or other metal fixed in a stock, from which balls, shot or other deadly weapons are discharged by the explosion of gunpowder. The larger species of guns are called cannon; and the smaller species are called muskets, carbines, fowling pieces, etc. But one species of fire-arms, the pistol, is never called a gun

GUN, verb intransitive To shoot.

GUN'-BARREL, noun The barrel or tube of a gun

GUN'BOAT, noun A boat or small vessel fitted to carry a gun or two at the bow.

GUN'NEL. [See Gunwale.]

GUN'NER, noun One skilled in the use of guns; a cannoneer; an officer appointed to manage artillery. The gunner of a ship of war has the charge of the ammunition and artillery, and his duty is to keep the latter in good order, and to teach the men the exercise of the guns.

GUN'NERY, noun The act of charging, directing and firing guns, as cannon, mortars and the like. gunnery is founded on the science of projectiles.

GUN'NING, noun The act of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

GUN'POWDER, noun A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and reduced to a fine powder, then granulated and dried. It is used in artillery, in shooting game, in blasting rocks, etc.

GUN'ROOM, noun In ships, an apartment on the after end of the lower gun-deck, occupied by the gunner, or by the lieutenants as a mess-room.

GUN'SHOT, noun The distance of the point blank range of a cannon-shot.

GUN'SHOT, adjective Made by the shot of a gun; as a gunshot wound.

GUN'SMITH, noun A maker of small arms; one whose occupation is to make or repair small fire-arms.

GUN'SMITHERY, noun The business of a gunsmith; the art of making small firearms.

GUN'STICK, noun A rammer, or ramrod; a stick or rod to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.

GUN'STOCK, noun The stock or wood in which the barrel of a gun is fixed.

GUN'STONE, noun A stone used for the shot of cannon. Before the invention of iron balls, stones were used for shot.

GUN'TACKLE, noun The tackle used on board of ships to run the guns out of the ports, and to secure them at sea. The tackles are pulleys affixed to the sides of a gun-carriage.

GUN'WALE

GUN'NEL, noun 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 fore-castle, being the uppermost bend which finishes the upper works of the hull.

GURGE, noun [Latin gurges.] A whirlpool. [Little used.]

GURGE, verb transitive To swallow. [Not in use.]

GUR'GION, noun The coarser part of meal separated from the bran. [Not used.]

GUR'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin gurges. See Gargle, which seems to be of the same family, or the same word differently applied.]

To run as liquor with a purling noise; to 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.

GURG'LING, participle present tense Running or flowing with a purling sound.

GUR'HOFITE, noun A subvariety of magnesian carbonate of lime, found near Gurhof, in Lower Austria. It is snow white, and has a dull, slightly conchoidal, or even fracture.

GUR'NARD, noun A fish of several species of the genus Trigla. The head is loricated with rough lines, or bony plates, and there are seven rays in the membranes of the gills.

GUR'RAH, noun A kind of plain, coarse India muslin.

GUSH, verb intransitive

1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; as, blood gushes from a vein in venesection.

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out. Psalms 78:20.

2. To flow copiously. Tears gushed from her eyes.

GUSH, verb transitive To emit in copious effusion.

The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. [Unusual.]

GUSH, noun A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquor in a large quantity and with force; the fluid thus emitted.

GUSH'ING, participle present tense Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as gushing waters.

1. Emitting copiously; as gushing eyes.

GUS'SET, noun A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening or enlarging some part.

GUST, noun [Latin gustus, gusto; Gr. a contracted word, for it has taste.]

1. Taste; tasting, or the sense of tasting. More generally, the pleasure of tasting; relish.

2. Sensual enjoyment.

Where love is duty on the female side,

On theirs, mere sensual gust and sought with surly

pride.

3. Pleasure; amusement; gratification.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust

4. Turn of fancy; intellectual taste.

A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients. [Taste is now generally used.]

GUST, verb transitive To taste; to have a relish. [Little used.]

GUST, noun

1. A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden rushing or driving of the wind, of short duration.

2. A sudden, violent burst of passion.

GUST'ABLE, adjective That may be tasted; tastable.

1. Pleasant to the taste. [Little used.]

GUSTA'TION, noun The act of tasting. [Little used.]

GUST'FUL, adjective Tasteful; well-tasted; that relishes.

GUST'FULNESS, noun Relish; pleasantness to the taste.

GUST'LESS, adjective Tasteless.

GUST'O, noun Relish; that which excites pleasant sensations in the palate or tongue.

1. Intellectual taste. [Little used.]

GUST'Y, adjective Subject to sudden blasts of wind; stormy; tempestuous.

Once upon a raw and gusty day,

The troubled Tyber chafing with his shores--

GUT, noun The intestinal canal of an animal; a pipe or tube extending, with many circumvolutions, from the pylorus to the vent. This pipe is composed of three coats, and is attached to the body by a membrane called the mesentery. This canal is of different sizes in different parts, and takes different names. The thin and small parts are called the duodenum, the ilium, and the jejunum; the large and thick parts are called the eaecum, the colon, the rectum. By this pipe, the undigested and unabsorbed parts of food are conveyed from the stomach and discharged. This word in the plural is applied to the whole mass formed by its natural convolutions in the abdomen.

2. The stomach; the receptacle of food.

3. Gluttony; love of gormandizing.

GUT, verb transitive To take out the bowels; to eviscerate.

1. To plunder of contents.

GUTta serena, in medicine, amaurosis; blindness occasioned by a diseased retina.

GUT'TED, participle passive Deprived of the bowels; eviscerated; deprived of contents.

GUT'TER, noun [Latin gutta, a drop.]

1. A channel for water; a hollow piece of timber, or a pipe, for catching and conveying off the water which drops from the eaves of a building.

2. A channel or passage for water; a hollow in the earth for conveying water; and, in popular usage, a channel worn in the earth by a current of water.

GUT'TER, verb transitive To cut or form into small hollows.

GUT'TER, verb intransitive To be hollowed or channeled.

1. To run or sweat as a candle.

GUT'TLE, verb transitive To swallow. [Not used.]

GUT'TLE, verb intransitive To swallow greedily. [Not used.]

GUT'TULOUS, adjective [from Latin guttula, a little drop.]

In the form of a small drop, or of small drops. [Little used.]

GUT'TURAL, adjective [Latin guttur, the throat.] Pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; as a guttural letter or sound; a guttural voice.

GUT'TURAL, noun A letter pronounced in the throat; as the GR.x.

GUT'TURALLY, adverb In a guttural manner; in the throat.

GUT'TURALNESS, noun The quality of being guttural.

GUT'TURINE, adjective Pertaining to the throat. [Not in use.]

GUT'TY, adjective [from Latin gutta, a drop.] In heraldry, charged or sprinkled with drops.

GUT'WORT, noun A plant.

GUY, noun gi. In marine affairs, a rope used to keep a heavy body steady while hoisting or lowering; also, a tackle to confine a boom forwards, when a vessel is going large, and to prevent the sail from gybing. guy is also a large slack rope, extending from the head of the main-mast to that of the fore-mast, to sustain a tackle for loading or unloading.

GUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much; to drink frequently.

Well seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise,

Who, while she guzzles, chats the Doctor's praise.

GUZ'ZLE. verb transitive To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust.

--Still guzzling must of wine.

GUZ'ZLE, noun An insatiable thing or person.

GUZ'ZLER, noun One who guzzles; an immoderate drinker.