G U L, 
jjope Alexander, (the fixth from St. Peter,) and de¬ 
sired of him to fee the chains that St. Peter was'chained 
with under Nero ; which requeft being granted, hie, 
killing the chains, was cured of her difeafe ; whereupon 
the pope inftituted this feaflp&n honour-of St. Peter; 
and as, before, this day was termed only the calends of 
Augujl, it was on this occafion called indifferently either 
St. Peter’s day ad Vincula , from what wrought the mi¬ 
racle, or the Gule of Augujl, from that part of the virgin 
whereon it was wrought. Durand's Rationale Divinorum, 
lib. 7. c. 19. 
GULES, adj. [perhaps from gula, Lat. the throat.] 
Red ; a term of heraldry : 
He whofe fable arms, 
Black as his purpofe, did the knight refemble. 
When he laid couched in the ominous horfe, 
Hath now his dread and black complexion fmear’d 
With heraldry more-difmal; head to foot. 
Now he is total gules. ■ Shakefpeare. 
GULF, f [golfo , Ital.] A bay; an opening into 
land.—The Venetian admiral withdrew himfelf farther 
off from the ifland Curfu, into the gitlfol the Adriatic 
Knolles. —An abyfs ; an Unmeafurable depth.,—The fea 
could not be much narrower than it is, without a great 
lofs to the world ; and muft we: now have an ocean of 
mere flats and fhallows, to the utter ruin of navigation, 
for fear our heads thould turn giddy at the imagination 
of gaping abyffes and unfathomable gulfs? Bentley. 
I know thoud’ft rather 
Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf, 
Than flatter him in a bower. Skakejpeare* 
A whirlpool,, a fuckling eddy : 
England his approaches makes as fierce 
As \vaters to thefuckling of a gulf. Shakefpeare. 
Any thing infatiable, as the mouth or ftomach : 
Scall of dragon, tooth of wolf, 
Witches mummy ; maw and gulf 
Of the ravening falt-fea (hark; 
Root of hemlock, digg’d i’ th’ dark. .Shakefpeare. 
The principal gulfs noticed by geographers, are, 
thofe of the Euxine or Black Sea, called the Gulf of 
Conftantinople ; of the Adriatic Sea, called the Gulf 
of Venice; the gulf of St. Sidra near Barbary ; and the 
gulf of Lions near France 1 thefe are in the Mediterra¬ 
nean. There are, befides the gulf of Mexico, the gulf 
of St. Lawrence, the gulf of. Florida, and the gulf of 
California, which are in North America. Alfo the 
gulf of Perfia, called the Red Sea : the gulf of Bengal 
in India; and the gulfs of Cochin-china and Kamt- 
fchatka, of Siam, &c.—For particulars of all which fee 
thofe refpedive articles in this Encyclopedia. 
GULF-STREAM, a very remarkable current in the 
ocean of North America, which runs along the coaft, 
at unequal diftances, from Cape Florida to the Ifle of 
Sables and the banks of Newfoundland, where it turns 
off and runs down through the Weftern iflands ; thence 
to the coaft of Africa, and along that coaftin a fouthern 
direction, till it arrives at, and fupplies the place of, 
thofe waters carried by the conftant trade winds from 
the coaft of Africa towards tlje weft, thus producing a 
conftant circulating current. This ftream is about fe- 
venty-five miles from the fhores of the Southern States, 
and tjie diftance increafes as you proceed northward. 
The width of it is about fifty miles, widening towards 
the north. Its common rapidity is three miles an hour. 
A north-eaft wind narrow's the ftream, renders it more 
rapid, and drives it nearer the coaft. North-weft and 
weft winds have a contrary effeCt. The Gulf-Stream 
is fuppoted to be occafioned by the trade-winds that are 
confta.ritly driving the water to the weftward, which, be¬ 
ing compreffed in the Gulf of Mexico, finds a paflage 
between Florida and the Bahama Illands, and runs to 
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the north-eaft along the American coaft. This hypo- 
thefis is confirmed by another fa6t : It is faid that the 
water in the Gulf of Mexico is many yards higher than 
on the weftern fide of the continent in the Pacific Ocean, 
It is highly probable that the fand carried down by 
great rivers into bays, and the current out of thefe bays 
meeting with the Gulf-Stream, by their eddies, have 
formed Nantucket Shoals, Cape Cod, George’s Bank, 
the Ifiand of Sables, See. Skilful navigators, who have 
acquired a knowledge of the extent to which this ftream 
reaches on the New-England coaft, have learnt, in their 
voyages from Europe to New-England, New-York, or 
Pennsylvania, to pafs the banks of Newfoundland in 
about 44. or 45. N. lat. to fail thence in a courfe be¬ 
tween the northern edge of the Gulf Stream, and the 
lhoals and banks of Sable Ifland, George’s Bank, and 
Nantucket, by which they make better and quicker' 
voyages to America. ' 
GUL'FY, adj. [from gulf] Full of gulfs or-whirl¬ 
pools ; vorticofus 
High o’er a gulfy. fea the Pharian ifle 
Fronts the deep rOar of'difemboguing Nile. Pope. 
To GULL, <v.a. \_guiller , to cheat, old French. ] To 
trick: to cheat}, to defraud ; to deceive.—If I do not 
gull him into a nay word,, and,make him a common re¬ 
creation,. do not think I have wit enough to lie ftraight 
in my bed. Shakefpeare. 
Y et love thefe forc’ries did remove, and move 
Thee to gull thine own mother for my love. Donne. 
GULL, f. A fea-bird, for the figure and natural hit 
tory of which, fee Larus , A cheat ; a fraud ; atrick. 
—Either they have thefe excellencies they are praifed 
for, or they have not ; if they have not, ’tis an apparent 
cheat and gull. Government of the Tongue. —A ftupid ani¬ 
mal ; one eafily cheated : 
That paltry ftory is,untrue,. 
And forg’d to cheat fuch gulls as you. Hudibras, 
GULL ISLE, a fmall ifland near Cape St. John, in 
the ifland of Newfoundland. 
GULL'CATCHER, f. A cheat; a man Of trick; 
one who catches filly people.—Here copies my noble 
gullcatcher. Shakefpeare. 
GUL'LER, f. A cheat; an impoftor. 
GUL'LERY,y. Cheat;.impofture. Ainfworth. 
GUL'LET, f. [ goulet , Fr. gula, Lat.] The throat; 
the paflage through which, the food paffes; the cefo- 
phagits.—Many have the gullet which have no lungs, or 
windpipes; as fifties, which have gills, whereby the 
heart is refrigerated. Brown. —A fmall ftream or lake.— 
The Euxine fea and the Mediterranean, fmall gullets, if 
compared with the ocean. Heylyn. 
GULL'ING, adj. A fea terra, wearing away by fric¬ 
tion, as the pin of a block in the hole of the fhiver. Scott. 
GULL'SPANG, a river of Sweden, which forms a 
communication between, the Skaker and the, Wenner 
Lakes. 
GUL'LY,-/. Any- hollow worn by water;—The vio- 
lent rain which had fallen in the night had fuddenly 
brought down fuch torrents of water, through the hol¬ 
low or gully where they had taken up their ftation, that 
they were in the utmoft danger of being fwept away be¬ 
fore it. Hawkefworth’s Voyages. 
To GUL'LY, v. n. [corrupted from gurgle .] To run - 
with noife. To wear away by fridion; to get loofe, .as 
the pin of a block in the hole of the fliiver. 
GUL'LYHOLE,/. The hole v. here the gutters empty, 
themfelves in the lubterraneous fewer. 
GULOS'lTY, f. \_gulofus,. Lat.] Greedinefs;.rglut- 
tony ; voracity.— They are very temperate, feldoin of¬ 
fending in ebriety, not' erring.in -guifty, or fuperfluiiy 
of meats. Brown. 
To GULP, v. a. [golpen , Dut.] To.fwallow. eagerly ; 
to luck down without intermiflion ; 
B.b. I.fee. 
