gut 
Out is used indifferently for the whole or for any part 
of the physiological entity which reaches from the oral 
to the anal aperture. 
if. Jti. Lankeeter, tret, to Gegenbaur's t'omp. Anat., p. xiv. 
2. The whole digestive system; the viscera; 
the entrails in general: commonly in the plu- 
ral. [Low.] 
Both sea and land are ransack 'd for the feast, 
And his own gut the sole invited guest. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, i. 207. 
Greedily devouring the raw guts of fowls. Grainger. 
3. The substance forming the case of the in- 
testine'; intestinal tissue or fiber: as, sheep's 
i/ut; calf-gut. 
Gut-spinning is the twisting of prepared gut into cord 
of various diameter for various purposes I. e., for ordi- 
nary catgut, for use in machinery, and for fiddle-strings. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 319. 
4. A preparation of the intestines of an animal 
used for various purposes, as for the strings of 
a violin, or, in angling, for the snood or leader 
to which the hook or lure is attached, in the 
latter case the material, called In full silk-worm gut, Is 
not true gut, but is formed from the fiber drawn out from 
a silkworm killed when it Is just ready to spin its cocoon. 
5. A narrow passage; particularly, a narrow 
channel of water; a strait; a long narrow inlet. 
North of it, in a gut of the hill, was the Fish-pool of 
Siloe. Sandys, Travailes, p. 146. 
We . . . looked down upon the straggling village of 
Port Hawksbury and the winding Gut of Canso. 
C. D. Warner, Baddeck, v. 
Branchial gut. See branchial. Fore-gut, In anat. , the 
anterior section of the primitive alimentary canal in ver- 
tebrate embryos. From it are developed the pharynx, eso- 
phagus, stomach, and duodenum. Hind-gut, in anal.. 
the posterior part of the primitive alimentary canal, giv- 
ing origin to parts of the intestine in the neighborhood 
of the anus, but extending from that point backward in 
a subcaudal or postanal prolongation. See epigaster. 
Mid-gut, in anat., the middle part of the primitive ali- 
mentary canal, from which is developed the greater part 
of the intestine. To nave guts In the bralnst.tohave 
sense. Dailies. [Low.] 
Quoth Ralpho, "Truly that is no 
Hard matter for a man to do 
That has but any guts in 's brains." 
S. Butter, Hudibras, I. ill. 1091. 
The fellow's well enough, if he had any guts in his 
brains. Swift, Polite Conversation, i. 
gut (gut), ;. t. ; pret. and pp. gutted, ppr. gut- 
ting. [< ME. gutten; from the noun.] 1. To 
take out the entrails of ; disembowel ; eviscer- 
ate. 
The fishermen save the most part of their fish : some 
are gutted, splitted, powdered, and dried. 
ft. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
2. To plunder of contents ; destroy or strip the 
interior of : as, the burglars gutted the store. 
In half an hour the lately splendid residence of the pro- 
prietor of the greatest private banking-house in London 
was gutted from cellar to ridge-pole. 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 311. 
gut-formed (gut'formd), a. Formed like a gut. 
The term is applied by Darwin to two glands which lie 
one on each side of the stomach of cirripeds : considered 
by Huxley as probably accessory glands of the reproduc- 
tive organs, analogous to those which secrete the walls of 
the ovisac in copepods. Bee second cut under Balanus. 
Gutierrezia (go"ti-er-ez'i-a), re. [NL., < Gutier- 
rez, the name of a noble Spanish family.] A 
genus of asteroid composites, of the western 
United States, Mexico, and extratropical South 
America. They are low, glabrous, and often glutinous 
herbs or suffrutescent plants, with linear leaves and small 
heads of yellow flowers. Of the 20 species, 5 are found in 
the United States. 
gut-length (gut'length), n. A length of silk- 
worm gut, usually, as imported into the United 
States, from 12 to 15 inches, employed for lead- 
ers and snells by anglers. See gut, 4. 
gutlingt, . [< gut + -ling 1 .'] A glutton. 
The poets wanted no sport the while, who made them- 
selves bitterly merry with 
descanting upon the 
lean skulls and the fat 
paunches of these lazy 
gutlingi. 
Bp. Sanderson, Works, 
[III. 106. 
gut-scraper (guf- 
skra " per), n. A 
scraper of catgut ; a 
fiddle-player. [Con- 
temptuous.] 
gutta 1 (gut' a), re.; pi. 
gutt<e (-e). [L., a 
drop: see goufi.~\ 1. 
A drop; specifically, 
in arch., one of a se- 
ries of pendent orna- 
ments, generally in 
the form Of the f rUS- 
turn of a cone, but 
Gutte in Doric Architecture. 
> ' orra ' gutta beneath regula : 
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sometimes cylindrical, attached to the under 
side of the mutules and regulte of the Doric 
entablature. They probably represent wooden pegs 
or treenails which occupied these positions in primitive 
wooden constructions. Also called trunitel. 
2. In phar., a drop: usually, and in prescrip- 
tions, written gt., plural gtt. 3. In zool., a 
small spot, generally of a round or oval form, 
and not differing much in shade from the 
ground-color, as if made by a drop of water; 
any small color-spot, especially when gutti- 
form Gum guttse. Same as gatnboge. Gutta se- 
rena, an old medical name for amauront. 
gutta a (gut'a), . [= F. gutte; < Malay gatali, 
gutali, giittan, gum, balsam.] Same as giitttt- 
perclid. 
gutta-percha (gut'a-per'cha), . [< Malay ya- 
tah (also written guttah, gutah, etc.), gum, bal- 
sam, + percha (also written pertja, etc.), said to 
be the name of the tree producing this gum, 
or rather of one of the species, the Malay name 
of the Isonandra Gutta being taban (also written 
tuban, etc.). Cf. Pulo or Pulau percha, a for- 
mer name of Sumatra, lit. the island of the per- 
cha-tree.] The concrete juice of an evergreen 
sapotaceous tree, Dichopsis (Isonandra) Gutta, 
common in the jungles of the Malay penin- 
sula and archipelago. It Is a grayish or yellowish 
Inodorous and tasteless substance, nearly inelastic, at or- 
dinary temperatures hard, tough, and somewhat horny, 
and flexible only In thin plates. At 120* to 140' F. it is 
sufficiently soft to be rolled into plates, and it becomes very 
soft at the temperature of boiling water. It is soluble in 
boiling ether, chloroform, benzol, coal-tar oils, blsulphid 
of carbon, and oil of turpentine, and with caoutchouc it is 
readily vulcanized. Gutta-percha is used for a great va- 
riety of purposes, as for insulating electric wires, in the 
manufacture of hose, belting, and other flexible goods, as a 
substitute for leather, in mastics and cements, for splints 
and various surgical implements, etc. A similar product 
is obtained from other species of Dichopsis and of several 
allied genera. Also called gutta-taban. 
gutta-putih (gut'a-po'ti), n. [Malay.] A gum 
obtained from Payena Leerii, whiter and more 
spongy than gutta-percha. Also called gutta- 
sundek. 
guttarama (gut-a-ra'mS), n. [8. Amer.] The 
violet organist, Euphonia violacea, a South 
American tanager. 
gutta-rambong (gut 'S -ram 'bong), n. [Ma- 
lay.] A reddisn-brown'gum closely resembling 
caoutchouc, probably obtained from the roots 
of Ficus elastica. 
gutta-shea (gut'ii-she'a), >i. [Malay.] A hy- 
drocarbon obtained from shea-butter in the 
manufacture of soap. The milky juice of Botryo- 
xpermum Parkii, the fruit of which yields shea-butter, 
is said to have when dried all the properties of gutta-per- 
cha. 
gutta-singgarip (gut'a-sing'ga-rip), n. [Ma- 
lay.] A soft and spongy gum obtained from 
frillughbea firma, an apocynaceous Malayan 
climber. 
gutta-sundek (gut'ii-sun'dek), . [Malay.] 
Same as gutta-putih. 
gutta-taban (gut'a-ta'ban),n. [Malay.] Same 
as gutta-percha. 
guttate (gut'at), a. [< L. guttatus, < gutta, a 
drop: seegutta 1 .'] 1 . Containing drops or drop- 
like masses, either solid or more or less liquid, 
often resembling nuclei. 2. In bot., spotted, 
as if by drops of something colored. 3. In 
zool., having drop-shaped or guttiform spots. 
guttated (gut'a-ted), a. [< L. gutta, a drop.] 
Same as guttate. 
guttation (gu-ta'shon), H. [< guttate + -ton.] 
The act of dropping or of flowing in drops. 
gutta-trap (gut'a-trap), n. The inspissated 
juice of the Artocarpus incisri, or eastern bread- 
fruit-tree, used for its glutinous properties in 
making bird-lime. 
gutt<, gutty (gut'a, -i), a. [< OF. goute, goti, 
spotted, < L. guttatus, spotted, guttate : see gut- 
tate.'] In her., covered with representations of 
drops of liquid : an epithet always used with 
words explaining the tincture of the drops. 
Gutte reversed, in her. , charged with drops like those 
of gutte, with the bulb or globe of the drop upward. 
gutted (gut'ed), a. 1. Having entrails. 2. 
Having the entrails removed ; disemboweled : 
as, gutted herring. 
gutter 1 (gut'er), n. [< ME. gotere, < OF. gutiere, 
goutiere, F. gouttiere, f. (OF. also goutier, gout- 
tier, m.) (= Pr. Sp. gotera = Pg. goteira, f.), a 
gutter, orig. a channel for receiving the drip- 
pings from the roof, < OF. gate, goute, F. goutte 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. gota, a drop, < L. gutta, a drop: 
see gouft."] 1. A narrow channel at the eaves 
or on the roof of a building, at the sides of a 
road or a street, or elsewhere, for carrying off 
water or other fluid; a conduit ; a trough. 
gutter-flag 
Lete make goeteres in to the diches. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 38. 
He digged out a gutter to receiue the wine when it wer 
pressed, and he sette furthermore a wyne presse in it. 
J. Udall, On Luke xx. 
O can my frozen gutters choose but run 
That feel the warmth of such a glorious sun ? 
Quarles, Emblems, v. 5. 
Like a river down the gutter roars 
The rain, the welcome rain ! 
Longfelluu, Rain in Summer. 
2. A furrow; especially, a furrow made by the 
action of water. 
Rocks rise one above another, and have deep gutters 
worn in the sides of them by torrents of rain. 
Addison, Travels in Italy. 
3f. A passageway ; a secret passage. 
This Troylus, right platly for to seyu, 
Is thorgh a goter, by a privy wente, 
Into my chanmber com in al this reyn. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 787. 
4. pi. Mud; mire; dirt. [Scotch.] 5. In Aus- 
tralian gold-mining, the lower auriferous part 
of the channel of an old river of the Tertiary 
age, now often deeply covered by volcanic mate- 
rials and detrital deposits. 6. In printing, one 
of a number of pieces of wood or metal, chan- 
neled in the center with a groove or gutter, used 
to separate the pages of type in a form. Also 
gutter-stick. 7. In entoni., any groove or elon- 
gate depression, especially when it serves as a 
receptacle for a part or an organ ; specifically, 
a fold or deflexed and incurved space on the 
posterior wing of a lepidopterous insect, ad- 
joining the inner edge, and embracing the abdo- 
men from above downward when the wings are 
at rest. 8. In cabinet-work, etc., a slight de- 
pression. Flutlngs and godroons are always in series ; 
the term gutter is used rather for a single depression or 
one of two or three. 
gutter 1 (gut'er), >. [< gutter*, n.] I. trans. I. 
To furrow, groove, or channel, as by the flow of 
a liquid. 
My cheeks are guttered with my fretting tears. Sandyi. 
As irrelevant to the daylight as a last night's guttered 
candle. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 8. 
2. To conduct off, as by a trough or gutter. 
Transplantyng hem is best atte yeres two. 
So gutteryng the water from hem shelve. 
PaUadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 217. 
3. To provide with gutters: as, to gutter a 
house. 
II. intrans. 1. To become channeled by the 
flow of melted tallow or wax, as a burning 
candle. 2. To let fall drops, as of melted tal- 
low from a candle. 
The discourse was cut short by the sudden appearance 
of Charley on the scene with a face and hands of hideous 
blackness, and a nose guttering like a candle. 
T. Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, vii. 
gutter 2 (gut'er), n. [< gut + -er 1 .] One who 
guts fish in dressing them. 
When we drew near we found they were but the fish 
curers' gutters and packers at work. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 950. 
gutter 3 (gut'er), v . t. [Cf . guttle; appar. a freq. 
from gut, .] To devour greedily. Halliwell. 
Guttera (gut'e-ra), H. [NL., irreg. < L. gutta, 
a drop, + -era.']' A genus of crested guinea- 
crested Guinea-fowl (Gutters cristata). 
fowls. The type is G. cristata ; there are sev- 
eral other species. Wagler, 1832. 
gutter-blood (gut'er-blud), n. A base-born 
person ; one sprung from the lowest ranks of 
society. [Rare.] 
In rushed a thorough Edinburgh gutter-blood, a ragged 
rascal every dud upon whose back was bidding good-day 
to the other. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, v. 
gutter-boarding (gut'er-bor*ding), n. Same 
as layer-board. 
gutter-COCk (gut'er-kok), n. The water-rail, 
Rallus ufjiidtieitx. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
gutter-flag (gut'er-flag), . A flag displayed 
to indicate the position of the gutter or channel 
in a mine under ground. [Australia.] 
