gutter-hole 
gutter-holo (gut'er-hol), 
refuse from the kitchen is flung; a sink. 
mil-Kim. [Scotch.] 
guttering (gut'cr-ing), . [Verbal n. of gutter^, 
<>.] 1. The process of forming into gutters or 
channels. 2. A channel or collection of chan- 
nels to receive and carry off water. 3. Mate- 
rial of wood or metal for gutters or rain-troughs. 
guttermastert, . One whose office it is to 
clean gutters. [A humorous name, perhaps 
only in the following derivative.] 
guttermastershipt, . [< guttermaster + -slii[>.~\ 
The duty or office of a guttermaster. 
If I make you not loose your office of gutter-mafster-ship, 
and you bee skavenger next yeare, well. 
Marston, What you Will, ill. 1. 
gutter-snipe (gut'er-snlp), n. 1. The com- 
mon American or Wilson's snipe, Gallinago 
irilxiini or delicata. E. Ridgway, 1874. [South- 
western Illinois.] 2. A gatherer of rags and 
waste paper from gutters. [Opprobrious.] 3. 
A street child of the lowest class; a street Arab; 
a gamin. [Slang.] 
Incessant activity on behalf of the gutter-mipes and 
Arabs of the streets of Gravesend. 
The Century, XXVIII. 657. 
4. An oblong form of printed placard made to 
be posted on the curbstones of gutters. 
gutter-spout (gut'er-spout), n. The spout 
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A place where < NL. gutturalis, < L. guttur, the throat: see 
gyascutus 
Once on a fifth of November I found a Guy trusted to 
^ A-AJ. y" no, ^ j. yuvmi , uio turuttt . BCB x^uveinuer i lounu a \juy trusted to 
Ja- guttur.'] I. a. Of or pertaining to the throat; Jake care of himself there, while his proprietors had gone 
s j ._ > A i.5ii ii_ _ i to dinner. Diofenu. Une<uninmM] Travpllpr wi 
, j-.prit 
to dinner. Dickens, Uncommercial Traveller,~. 
Hence 2. A person grotesque in dress, looks, 
or manners; a dowdy; a "fright." 
formed in or as in the throat: as, the guttural 
(superior thyroid) artery; a guttural sound; 
guttural speech. 
The harsh guttural Indian language, in the fervent " What extreme guys those artistic fellows usually are !" 
alembic of his loving study, was melted into a written 8a ' Q young Cliutock to Gwendolen. " Do look at the fig- 
dialect. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 3. ure ne cuts." George Eliut, Daniel Deronda, x. 
The guttural character of Spanish is quite alien to the guy 2 (gl), v. t. [< guyV, .] To treat as a guy; 
genius of Italian speech. j eer at or make fun of ; ridicule. 
G. P. Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 194. 
r>,,tt oi r t Passes through the streets of Paris, andistfu/yerf by some 
Guttural fossa. Seefossal. O f those who see him go by. The American, VII. 21. 
II. n. A sound or combination of sounds pro- ff , lv dnn+ SPP 
nmiTlRfifl ill rhfi throat or in HIP haoV r,nrt nf gUyCIOnt, H. bee gUIOOII. 
hack navt of ~*Jr Mw i " "" 
" guylet, v . t. An obsolete spelling of guilei. 
[~ guy-rope (gi'rop), u. A rope used to steac 
steady a 
in the throat, or in the 
the mouth toward the throat, as k, 
tural sound or utterance, in the English alpha- . 
bet the so-caUed gutturals are k (written with*, c hard, q, b P ar > P ul c . nase > et - i a g^ 
and sometimes ch), g, and ng. They are also called back gUZC (guz), n. [A corruption of gulesl] In 
palatals, or palatals simply, since the name guttural im- her., a roundel, murrey or sanguine, 
plies a false description, as if the sounds were actually irnzzie n See auz~ii 
made in the guttur or throat. The same name is given to 5,,,i' ,' m ,,- t \ . J- 
similar sounds of other languages, also to rough or rasp- 
ing sounds, as the German ch. 
Many words which are soft and musical in the mouth 
of a Persian may appear veiy harsh to our eyes, with a 
number of consonants and gutturals. 
Sir W. Jones, Eastern Poetry, i. 
= ues by thevolut 
which he addressed his Majesty in German. They lis- 
tened with envy and terror to the mysterious gutturals 
which might possibly convey suggestions very little in 
unison with their wishes. Macaulay, Walpole's Letters. 
_ _ _ ^ . 
through" whicti"the water from the gutter or gutturality (gut-u-ral'i-ti), n. [< guttural 
eaves of a house passes off. -%] The quality of being guttural; guttural- 
gutter-stick (gut'er-stik), H. Sarneas0Meri,6. ness. [Rare.] 
gutter-teetan (gut'er-te"tan), n. The rock- gutturalize (gut'u-ral-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
pipit, Anthus obscurus. Also shore-teetan. [Ork- gutturalized, ppr. gutturalizing. [< guttural 
ney isles.] + -fee.] To speak or enunciate gutturally. 
gUttidet (gut'tld), n. Shrovetide. T O gutturalize strange tongues. Gentleman's Mag. 
At what time wert thou bound, Club? at Guttide, Hoi- mittiirallir ftnit'n ml i\ nrlv Tn Q ,tt,,i.ol 
lantide, or Candletide. Middleton, Family of Love, ^iv. 1. Calmer W * W a " v - 
guttifer (gut'i-fer), n. [^l*. guttifer : see gut- gutturalness (gut'u-ral-nes), n. The quality 
tijerous.] A plant of the order Guttifera. of being guttural. 
Guttiferae (gu-tif 'e-re), n. pi. [NL., fern. pi. of gutturinet (gut'u-rin), a. [< L. guttur, the 
guttifer: see guttiferous.'] An order of trop- throat, + -jel.] Pertaining to the throat 
ical polypetalous trees and shrubs, nearly al- The bronchocele or gutturine tumour, 
lied to the Hypencacea;, with resinous juice, Ray, The Deluge, ii. (Latham.) 
opposite leathery leaves, and unisexual or po- gutturize (gut'u-riz), v. t.; pret. and pp. gut- 
lygamous flowers. There are 24 genera and about 240 tiiri"e(l nnr nnttiiririnri Vf nuttiir 4- Jye 1 
species, nearly all American or Asiatic. The order yields T ' ^nrrn ?? t'l,f t[ f ? ' L 9 a J 
many gum-resins, as gamboge, etc., some edible fruits, as B lorm m tne throat, as a sound, 
the mangosteen and mammee-apple, many oily seeds, and For which the Germans gutturize a sound. Coleridae 
some valuable timbers. The more important genera are 4. . 
Garcinia, Clusia, Calophyllum, and Mammea. gUtty, a. See gutte. 
guttiferal (gu-tif 'e-ral), a. [< Guttifera! + -al.] gutwqrt (gut'wert), n. A garden-plant, Glo- 
Pertaining to the order Guttifera! ; guttiferous. bularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in 
(guz'l), v.; pret. and pp. guzzled, ppr. 
guzzling. [Perhaps < OF. "gouziller, in comp. 
desgouziller, gulp down, swallow; this is per- 
haps connected with F. gosier, the throat. Cf. 
Lorraine gosse, the throat, the stomach of fatted 
animals, It. gozzo, the throat, the crop of a bird. 
Prob. not connected etyinologically with gud- 
dle 1 or guttle.] I. intrans. To swallow liquor 
greedily; swill; drink much; drink frequently. 
Well -seasoned bowls the gossip's spirit raise, 
Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. 
Roscommon, On Translated Verse. 
. . guzzled, devoured, debauched, 
Thackeray. 
Troth, sir, my master and Sir Gosling are guzzling; 
they are dabbling together fathom deep. 
Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, v. 1. 
II. trans. To swallow often or much of ; swal- 
low greedily. 
The Pylian king 
Was longest liv'd of any two-legg'd thing, 
Still guzzling must of wine. Dryden. 
They [the lackeys] 
cheated. 
belonging or pertaining to the order Guttifera!. 
guttiform (gut'i-form), a. [< L. gutta, a drop, 
+ forma, shape.] Drop-shaped; tear-shaped. 
guttle (gut'l), v. [Cf. var. guddlei, gutter^; 
appar. freq. from gut, .] I. trans. To swal- 
low greedily; gobble. 
< ME. 
,...,, , orig. and later 
guider = Pr. guiar, guidar = Sp. Pg. guiar = 
It. guidare, guide; of Teut. origin: see guide. 
The particular mech. sense (def. 2) is modern.] guzzler (guz'ler), . 
If. To guide. moderate drinker. 
[He] made William here wardeyn as he wel mijt, 
An insatiable thing or person. [Rare.] 
That senseless, sensual epicure, 
That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure. 
Marston, Scourge of Villanie, ii. 7. 
2. Drink; intoxicating liquor. 
Seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle. 
Tom Brown, Works, II. 180. 
3. A drinking-bout; a debauch. 4. A drain 
or ditch; sometimes, a small stream. Also 
called a guzzen. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle 
her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch. 
W. Whately, Bride Bush (1623), p. 114. 
Il.t a. Filthy; sensual. 
Quake, guzzel dogs, that live on putrid slime. 
Marston, Scourge of Villanie, Prol. 
One who guzzles ; an im- 
The fool spit in his porridge to try if they'd hiss ; they 
did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his 
chaps. Sir R. L'Eatrange. 
to gye & to gouerne the gay yong knijtes. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. $.), 1. 1106. 
Gyffe us grace to gye, and governe us here, 
In this wrechyd werld, thorowe vertous lywynge. 
Morte Arthurs (E. E. T. S.X1. 4. 
O lord, my soule and eek my body gye 
Unwemmed, lest that I confoundedbe. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 136. 
So of my schip guyed is the rothir, 
That y ne may erre for wawe ne for wynde. 
Lydgate, MS. Soc. Antiq., 134, f. 1. (Halliwell.) 
A writhen staff his steps unstable guies, 
Which serv'd his feeble members to uphold. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, x. 9. 
2. In nautical and mechanical use, to keep in 
place, steady, or direct by means of a guy. 
As the Japanese have no bridge on the nose worth speak- 
ing of, the ponderous optical helps must be guyed in by 
cables of twine slung round the ears. 
Harper's Hag., LXXVI. 711. 
It [icej is plain upon the surface of the water, but round guy 1 (gl), . [< OF. guye, guie, a guide, a crane 
II. intrans. To eat greedily ; gormandize. 
Quaffs, crams, and guttle*, in his own defence. 
Dryden, tr. of Perseus's Satires, vi. 51. 
guttler (gut'ler), w. A greedy or gluttonous 
eater; a gormandizer. 
guttula (gut'u-la), n. ; pi. guttulce (-le). [L., 
dim. of gutta, a 3rop.] A small drop; specifi- 
cally, in entom., a small gutta or spot of color. 
guttulate (gut'u-lat), a. [< guttula + -afei.] 
1. Composed of small round vesicles. 2. In 
bot., containing fine drops, or drop-like parti- 
cles ; minutely guttate. 
guttuloust (gutVlus), a. [< guttula + -ous.] 
In the form of small drops. 
in hail, which is also a glaciation, and figured in its guttu- 
loui descent from the ah-. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1. 
or derrick, = Sp. guia, a guide, etc., a small 
Being an eternal guzzler of wine, his mouth smelt like 
a vintner's vault. Tom Broun, Works, III. 265. 
guzzy (guz'i), n. [Hind, gazi : see gauze.] 
Indian cotton cloth of the poorer kind. Also 
spelled guzzie. 
gwantus, n. See glove. 
gwyniad, gwiniad (gwin'i-ad), w. [< W. gwy- 
niad, whiting (a fish), also a making white, < 
gwyn, tern, gwen = Bret, gwenn = Gael, and Ir. 
fionn, Olr. finn, white.] The Coregonus peit- 
nanti, a kind of whitefish abundant in some of 
the Welsh lakes, in TJllswater, England, and in 
many lakes in Europe. It is gregarious, and 
may be taken in great numbers at a draft. Also 
guiniad. See whitefish and Coregonus. 
gyal, n. See gayal. 
uyalecta (ji-a-lek'ta), n. [NL.. < Gr. yia?or, 
a hollow, a hollow vessel.] A genus of lecano- 
rine lichens haying ur- 
ceolate apothecia of a 
waxy texture. 
rope used on board ship to keep weighty things gyalectiform (ji-a-lek'- 
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guttur (gut'er), .; pi. 0ttwr<z(gut'u-ra). [L., in their places; from the verb: see guyi, v., 
the throat. Hence ult. goiter.-] 1. The throat, 
[Rare.] 
The letters which we commonly call gutturals, k, g, 
have nothing to do with the guttur, but with the root of 
the tongue and the soft palate. 
Max M tiller, Sci. of Lang., 2d ser., p. 164. 
2. In ornith., the whole throat or front of the 
neck of a bird, including gula and jugulum: 
opposed to cervix, or the back of the neck. rcv , - vr .--= 
The front of the neck has been needlessly subdivided. g ? y ! ^I'^.^^L? ^ Fawkes: see del 1.] 
. . . Guttur is a term sometimes used to include gula and 
jugulum together ; it is simply equivalent to "throat." 
Cones, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 96. 
guttural (gut'u-ral), . and n. [= F. guttural 
ti-form), a. [< Gyalecta 
and cf. guide, n.~\ A rope or other appliance ' k. forma, shape.] 
used to steady something. Especially (a) A rope Same as gyalectine. 
attached to an object which is being hoisted or lowered, gyalectine(ji-a-lek'tin), 
to steady it. (6) A rope which trims or steadies a boom, a. K Gvalectii + -ine 1 1 
spar, or yard in a ship, (c) A rope or rod, generally a wire 
rope, attached to any stationary object to keep it steady 
or prevent oscillation, as the rods which are attached to 
a suspension-bridge and to the land on each side, or the 
stay-rope of a derrick.- Lazy guy (naut.), a guy to keep 
the boom of a fore-and-aft sail from jibing. 
Bplonoirio' tn 
PS; on 6 ul K >. . 
blln g> or naving the 
characters of the genus 
Gyalecta: having urceo- 
^ wax ' y ap?th ^ ecia . 
alectoid (ji-a-lek'- 
Sp. gutural ="Pg. guttural = It. gutturale, 
168 
discovery of the gunpowder plot, 
under gunpowder. 
See gunpowder plot, 
gyascutus ( ji - as - ku '- 
tus), . [An invented 
Oyasc u tu j pla nicosta. 
(Line shows natural size.) 
