gull-catcher 
Fab Here comes my noble gull-catcher. . . . 
Sir To. Thou hast put him in such a dream, that when 
the image of it leaves him he must run mad. 
Shak., T. rJ., n. o. 
gull-chaser (gul'cha"ser), . Same as gull- 
teaser. 
guller (gul'er), n. One who gulls; a cheat; an 
impostor. 
gulleryH (gul'er-i), . [< gull* + -en/.] Cheat- 
ing or a cheat ; fraud. 
Leo DecimuB . . . took an extraordinary delight in hu- 
mouring of silly fellows, and to put gulleries upon them. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 208. 
Away, these are mere gulleries, horrid things, 
Invented by some cheating mountebanks 
To abuse us. Webster, Duchess of Mam, iii. 1. 
Do you think, because I have good-naturedly purchased 
your trumpery goods at your roguish prices, that you may 
put any giillery you will on me? Scott, Keuilworth, i. 
i (gul'er-i), n. ; pi. gulleries (-iz). [X 
-ery.] A place where gulls breed. 
Two other instances of such inland gulleries exist in 
England. E. Trollope, Sleaford (1872), p. 58. 
gullet (gul'et), n. [Early mod. E. also gollet; 
< ME. golet, the throat, also the neck of a gar- 
ment, < OF. goulet, the throat, mod. a narrow 
entrance (cf . F. goulette, goulotte, a water-chan- 
nel, in arch. ), dim. of gole, goule, the throat, mod. 
F. gueule, the mouth, the jaws : see gole*, gule*. 
Cf. gully*.'] 1. The passage in the neck of an 
animal by which food and drink pass from the 
mouth to the stomach ; the throat ; technically, 
in anat., the esophagus. 2. Something resem- 
bling the throat in shape, position, or func- 
tions . (a) A deep narrow passage through which a stream 
flows ; a ravine ; a water-channel. 
As for example, in old time at the streits or gullet Cau- 
dinse when the Roman legions were in Samnium put to 
the yoke. Holland, tr. of Ammianus (1609). 
I haue bene in diuers places of Affrica, as Algiers, Cola, 
Bona, Tripolis, the gollet within the gulfe of Tunis 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 411. 
A deep, unpassable gullet of water, without bridge, ford, 
or ferryf Fuller, Holy War, p. 263. 
(6) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of suffi- 
cient width to admit of the passage of wagons, (c) A pe- 
culiar concave cut in the teeth of some saw-blades. See 
gullet-saw, (d) A gore, as in a skirt, (c) Part of a hood 
or cowl. 
Be the golett of the hode 
Johne pulled the munke downe. 
Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, V. 9). 
(/) A piece of armor for the throat or upper part of the 
[He] beris to syr Berille, and brathely hym hittes, 
Throwghe golet and gorgere he hurtez hym ewyne ! 
20.".." 
gull-gropert, n. A usurer who lent money to 
gamesters. Dekker. Satiro-Mastix. 
gullibility (gul-i-bil'i-ti), 11. [< gullible: see 
-billty.~} The state or character of being gulli- 
ble ; unsuspecting credulity. 
I was the victim of a hoax, and Jones was at that mo- 
ment chuckling over my stupendous gullibility. 
J. T. Trowbridge, Coupon Bonds, p. 278. 
gullible (gul'i-bl), a. [< gull*, v., + -6fe.] 
Easily gulled or cheated. 
" " ' * his 
so 
The comic cast given to Shakespeare's Shylock by 
early impersonators was not entirely inappropriate to 
gullible an old Israelite as he proved himself to be. 
Pop. So.. Mo., XX. 378. 
gullisht (gul'ish), a. [< gull*, n., + -ish*.~\ 
Foolish; stupid. 
Some things are true, some false, which for then- own 
ends they will not have the gullish commonalty take no- 
tice of. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 606. 
gullishnesst (gul'ish-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being gullish ; foolishness ; stupid- 
ity. Bailey, 1727. 
gullpwingt, a- (Ct.guW, gully*, gully'*.] Swal- 
lowing; devouring. 
O cloacam edacem ac bibacem. thou devouring and 
gulloimng panch of a glutton. Terence in English (1641). 
gull-teaser (gul'te"zer), n. A bird that teases 
gulls, as a tern or jaeger. Also called gull- 
chaser. 
gully 1 (gul'i), n. ; pi. gullies (-iz). [A later 
(dial.) form of gull* or gullet in alike sense (def. 
1).] 1. A channel or hollow worn in the earth 
by a current of water; a narrow ravine; a 
ditch ; a gutter. 
They were bailed up in the limestone gully, and all the 
party were away after them. 
H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, p. 262. 
The Jordan at this point will not average more than ten 
yards in breadth. It flows at the bottom of a gully about 
fifteen feet deep. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 67. 
gum 
an altered form of golf, a billow, wave, gulf 
(see gulf), but gulp, n., a gulp, is rather from 
the verb, which is prob. not connected with the 
word for ' gulf.'] To swallow eagerly or in large 
draughts; hence, figuratively (with down), to 
repress (emotion) as if by swallowing it. 
The best of these [worldly goods] 
Torment the soul with pleasing it; and please, 
Like waters gulp'd in fevers, with deceitful ease. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 13. 
He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 340. 
Gulp down rage, passion must be postponed, 
Calm be the word ! 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 186. 
-Lmowglle yutet illlu vjl(,i\* MV '. "j." tV 
The Kome and the grette horse at the grounde liggez. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1772. 
to) The lower end of a horse-collar, about which pass the 
choke-strap and breast-strap. (A) The arch of a bridge. 
[Prov. Eng. ] (i) A parcel or lot. Wright. [Obsolete or 
prov. Eng.] 
And the residewe beinge xx. 11. lyeth in sundrye gullettes 
in severall townes and shers. 
Ludlow Muniments, temp. Edw. VI. 
3. A fish, the pike. [North. Eng.] 
gullet (gul'et), . *. [< gullet, .] To cut or 
make gullets in: as, to gullet a saw. 
gulleting (gul'et-ing), n. In railroad engin., a 
method of carrying on the work in a succession 
of steps, upon which different gangs of men are 
employed. Also called notching. 
gulleting-file (gul'et-ing-fil), n. See file*. 
gulleting-preSS (gul'et-ing-pres), n. A hand 
screw-press for repairing saw-blades. See 
gulleting-stick (gul'et-ing-stik), n. A stick, 
notched at one end, used to extract a hook from 
2. An iron tram-plate or rail. 
gully 1 (gul'i), . t. ; pret. and pp. gullied, ppr. 
gullying. [< gully*, n.] To wear into a gully 
or channel; form gullies in. 
In their gullying and undermining rage, these torrents 
tear out stones and large rocks from the hill-sides 
Pop. Sa. Mo., XXVI. 69. 
gully 2 t (gul'i), v. i. [Appar. < gutty*, n., in 
reference to the flowing or gurgling of water. 
Cf. Sc. guller, guggle, also growl, as a dog.] 
To run, as water, with a noise. 
gully 3 (gul'i), . ; pi. gullies (-iz). [Also gulley; 
origin obscure.] A kind of knife; a sheath- 
knife. See the first extract. 
Gullies (gouets), which are little haulch-backed demi- 
knives the iron tool whereof is two inches long, and the 
wooden handle one inch thick, and three inches in length. 
(frquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 27. 
"I rede ye well, tak' care o' skaith, 
See, there's a gully!" 
"Guidman," quo he, "put up your whittle. 
Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook. 
gully-gutt (gul'i -gut), n. A glutton. Baret; 
Florio; Chapman. 
gullyhole (gul'i-hol), n. An opening through 
which gutters and drains empty into a subter- 
ranean sewer. [Bare or provincial.] 
gully-hunter (gul'i-hun"ter), n. A person who 
goes about the streets searching for what he 
may find in the gutters. [Slang.] 
There's some what we call gully-hunters as goes about 
with a sieve, and near the gratings finds a few ha'-pence. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. 26. 
gulp (gulp), n. [< gulp, .] An act of swallow- 
ing ; a swallow ; also, as much as is swallowed 
at once. 
The Usurer . . . hath suckt in ten thousand pounds 
worth of my land more than he paid for, at a gulp. 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, i. 
And oft as he can catch a gulp of air, 
And peep above the seas, he names the fair. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., x. 
They gave many a gulp before they could swallow it 
Walpole, Letters, II. 334. 
This unsettled my poor girl, who was about to swallow 
her whole glass of wine and water at a gulp. 
T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney. 
gulpht (gulf), n. An obsolete spelling of gulf. 
gulravage (gul-rav'aj), n. and v. [Sc.] Same 
as gilravage. 
guly (gu'li), a. [< gule-s + -y*.'] Of or pertain- 
ing to gules ; of the tincture gules. 
To unfurl the streaming red cross, or to rear the horrid 
standard of those fatal guly dragons for so unworthy a pur- 
pose. SI ilton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
gum 1 (gum), n. [< ME. gumme, gomme, com- 
monly in pi. gummes, gommes; another form, 
with shortened vowel, of what still exists as dial. 
goom (cf. mod. E. l>lood, flood, etc., in which 
the same orig. vowel is similarly shortened, 
and rudder, stud*, in which it is shortened and 
changed in spelling), < ME. goome, gome (with 
long vowel), commonly in pi. goomes, gomes, the 
notenea at one enu, useu 
a fish's mouth. [U. S.] 
(gul' 
a . . . 
gullet-larval (gul'et-lar'Val), a. Same as gu- 
linular. 
gullet-saw (gul'et -sa), n. A saw having a 
hollow cut away in front of each tooth, in con- 
tinuation of the face and on alternate sides of 
the blade ; a brier-tooth saw. E. H. Knight. 
gullfincht (gul'finch), n. A person easily de- 
ceived; a gull. Nares. 
Another set of delicate knaves there are, that dive into 
deeds and writings of lands left to young gullAnches. 
Middleton, The Black Book. 
Fooles past and present and to come, they say, 
To thee in generall must all give way 
For 'tis concluded 'mongst the wizards all, 
To make thee master of Gul-finches hall. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
gullflsh (gul'fish), n. [Appar. < gutt* + fish.'} 
The coalfish. [Local, Eng.] 
gull-gallantt (gul'galant), n. A duped gal- 
lant ; a gull. 
In regard of our Gull-gallants of these times who should 
sometimes bee at a set in their braue and brauing phrases. 
Pwchas, Pilgrimage, p. 266. 
gullymoutll (gul'i-mouth), n. A kind of large 
pitcher or ewer: so called from the shape of 
its mouth or spout. 
Gulo (gu'16), n. [L., a glutton, < gula, the 
throat, gullet, gluttony.] A genus of planti- 
grade carnivorous quadrupeds, of the family 
Mustelidce and subfamily Mustelines, contain- 
ing the glutton or wolverene, Gulo luscus. This 
animal is the only species properly belonging to the ge- 
nus though some others have been placed in it, as the 
grisons (Galictis). The dental formula is the same as in 
Mustela. The size is above the average of the family, 
and the form is very robust, with short bushy tail, shaggy 
fur low ears, and furry soles. The genus was founded by 
Storr in 1780. See cut under wolverene. 
gulosityt (gu-los'i-ti), n. [= OF. gulosite, golo- 
sete, < LL. g'ulosita(t-)s, < L. gulosus, gluttonous, 
< gula, the gullet, gluttony : see gule*.'] Greedi- 
ness ; voracity ; excessive appetite for food. 
They are very temperate, seldom offending in ebriety, 
nor erring in guloiity, or superfluity of meats. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 9. 
gulp (gulp), v. t. [< D. gulpen, OD. gulpen, 
gofpen, swallow eagerly (cf. Dan. gulpe, gylpe, 
gulp up, disgorge). Cf. gulch*. The D. gulp, n., 
a gulp, draught, is the same in form as gulp, a 
great billow, a wave, OD. golpe, a gulf, appar. 
i ' ' i i ;_ * v If V-A/J UV-M-U' ' -j r a 7 a I I~ 
gums, < AS. goma, the palate, pi. the fauces, the 
jaws, = MLG. LG. gume = MD. gnmme = OHG. 
guomo, MHG. guome, gume (with another form, 
OHG. goumo, MHGt.goume, G. gamncn), the pal- 
ate, ='lcel. gomr = Sw. Norw. gom, the palate, 
= Dan. gumme, dial, gom, gum (cf. gane, pal- 
ate); Lith. gomyris, the palate. Prob. from the 
same ult. root as AS. gdnian, E. yawn, and (Gr.) 
chasm, chaos, etc., q. v.,the orig. sense, then, 
being 'the open jaw.'] 1. The soft tissues, 
consisting of a vascular mucous membrane, 
subjacent dense connective tissue, and perios- 
teum, which cover the alveolar parts of the up- 
per and lower jaws and envelop the necks of 
the teeth. Hence 2. The edge of the jaw; 
the part of one of the jaws in which the teeth 
are set, or over which the tissues close after the 
loss of teeth: generally used in the plural: as, 
the toothless gums of old age. 
Are your gums grown so tender they cannot bite? 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, iii. 1. 
3f. pi. The grinders ; molars. 
Er yeres six oute gothe the gomes stronge, 
The caused first at yeres VI are even. 
At VII yere are all illiche [alike] longe. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.X P- 136. 
4f. Insolent talk ; "jaw"; insolence. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
Pshaw ! pshaw ! brother, there's no occasion to bowss 
out so much unnecessary gum. 
Snwllett, Peregrine Pickle, xiv. 
5. Same as gummer. 
gum 1 (gum), v. t. ; pret. and pp. gummed, ppr. 
gumming. [< gum*, n.~\ To use a gummer upon ; 
gullet (a saw) ; widen the spaces between the 
teeth of (a worn saw) by punching or grinding. 
gum 2 (gum), n. [Early mod. E. &lsog umb, gumme, 
goome; < ME. gumme, gomme, < OF. gomme, F. 
gomme = Pr. Sp. goma = Pg. It. gomma = D. 
gom = G. Dan. Sw. gummi, < L. gummi, also 
gummis, cummi, cummis, commi (ML. also gum- 
ma), < Gr. K&UIU, gum, a word of unknown for- 
eign origin.] 1. A product of secretion ob- 
tained by desiccation from the sap of many 
plants. Gum, properly so called, includes such mucila- 
ginous substances as are soluble either in cold water, as 
gum arable or in hot water, as cherry-gum, or soften into a 
thin viscid mass without true solution, as gum tragacantn. 
In popular use, however, many very different products 
are also called gums, as gum elemi and gum copal, which 
are true resins, gum ammoniacum, which is a gum-resin, 
and gum elastic (caoutchouc), which differs from all the 
others. The word includes various aromatic products 
used in perfumes, incense, etc. See the phrases below. 
Spicers speeken with him to a-spien heore ware, 
For he kennede him in heore craft and kneuj mony 
gummts. Piers Plovnnan (A), ii. 202. 
