G U S 
To emit in a copious effluxion.—The gaping wound 
gujh'd out a crimfon flood. Dryden. 
Line after line my gujhing eyes o’erflow, 
Led through a lad variety of woe. Pope. 
GUSH,/ An emiflion of liquor in a large quantity at 
once ; the liquor lo emitted.—If a lung-vein beburfted, 
generally at the firft cough a great gujh of blood is 
coughed up. Harvey. 
GU'SINOI NOS, a cape on the weft coaft of Nova 
Zembla. Lat. 73. 30. N. Ion. 69. E. Ferro. 
- GUSSA'GO, a diftriCt of Benaco, in Italy, which 
comprehends, in thirteen communes, 10,000 fouls. Its 
principal places are the populous little townGussA- 
co, at the foot of the eminence; and the village Ro- 
dengo. 
GUS'SET, f. \_gcmffet, Fr.] Any thing fewed on to 
cloth in order to ftrengthen it. 
GUS'SET, J. In heraldry, an abatement of honour 
formed by a line drawn diagonally a little way from the 
upper corner of the efcutcheon and then dropped per¬ 
pendicularly to the extreme bafe. 
GUSSOLEN GO, a town of Italy, in the Veronefe, 
on the Adige : fix miles weft-north-weft of Verona. 
GUST, f. £ goujl , Fr. gujlus , Lat.] Senfe of tailing : 
Deftroy all creatures for thy fport or guf. 
Yet cry, if man’s unhappy, God’s unjuft. Pope. 
Height of perception; height of fenfual enjoyment: 
My fight, and fmell, and hearing, were employ’d, 
And all three fenfes in full gnf enjoy’d. Dryden. 
. Love ; liking.—We have left in a great meafure the 
gnft and relilh of true happinefs. Tillotfon. 
To kill, I grant, is fin’s extreme!! gujl \ 
But, in defence, by mercy ’tis made juft. Shakefpeare. 
Turn of fancy; -intellectual tafte.—The principal part 
of painting is to find what nature has made molt proper 
to this art, and a choice of it may be made according to 
the guf and manner of the ancients. Dryden .—[From 
gnjler, Illandic.] A fudden blaft of wind.—Prefently 
come forth fwarms and volleys of libels, which are the 
gufis of liberty of fpeecb reftrained. Bacon. 
You may as well forbid the mountain pines 
To wag their high tops, and to make a noife, 
When they are fretted with the gujls of heav’n. Shakejp. 
7b GUST, v. a. To tafte: 
’Tis far gone, 
When I lhall gujl it laft. Shakefpeare. 
GUS'TABLE, adj. Iguflo, Lat.] To be tafted—This 
polition informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall 
bitter ; whereas there is nothing gufable fweeter. Harvey. 
~—Pleafant to the tafte.—A gufable thing, leen or fmelt, 
excites, the appetite, and aftetts the glands and parts of 
the mouth. Derkam. 
GUSTATION,,/ igufo, Lat.] The aft of tailing. 
—The gullet and conveying parts partake of the nerves 
of gufation, or appertaining unto fapor. Brown. 
GUSTA'VlA,/ £fo named by the younger Linnae¬ 
us in memory of Gufavus III. king of Sweden, "who 
prefented a great collection of Indian plants to the 
elder Linnaeus.] In botany, a genus of the clafs mona- 
delphia, order polyandria, natural order of myrti, JuJf. 
The generic characters are—Calyx : none ; but the re¬ 
ceptacle above furrounded with a rim, flat, broad, bald. 
Corolla : none; petals fix or eight, flightly connected 
at the bafe, ovate, feilile, large. Stamina : filaments 
very numerous, Ihorter than the petals, uniting at the 
bafe into an upright bell diftant from the ftyle. An- 
therae fmall, oblong, upright, Ihorter by half than the 
petals. Piftillum : germ turbinate, inferior, flat, bald 
between the petals and the ftyle. Style conical, very 
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fhort, permanent. Stigma blunt, (lobed, Gartner.) 
Pericarpium: berry fubglobofe, fubconical, truncate, 
fix-celled, crowned with the rim of the receptacle; 
(tour to feven-celled. G.) Seeds: beans feveral, oval, 
fmooth, mutilated on one fide at the bafe ; with a car¬ 
tilaginous twitted appendix.— EJfential CharaS.tr. Calyx, 
none; petals, feveral; berry many-celled; feeds, ajl- 
pendicled. 
Guftavia augufta, a fingle fpecies. It is a tree, with 
thickilh branches, and front twenty to thirty feet high. 
Leaves alternate, fubfeflile, fomewhat crowded, in the 
upper part broad-lanceolate, narrower at the bafe, from 
a fpan to a foot in length, ribbed, fubferrate, fmooth on 
both fides. Peduncles from one to three, terminating, 
bearing one flower, and having one joint. Flower very 
fpecious, larger than the white water-lily, with a large, 
qaked, bald dilk or receptacle between the corolla and 
the ftyle : petals white, with red tips, the confiftence of 
the white lily. Filaments united at bottom into a mem¬ 
brane, and being inferted into the bafe of the corolla, 
are of the natureof thofe in the clafs icofandria : ftyle 
minute, yellow. The feed-velfel is a juicelefs berry, 
of a turbinate-globular-form, with mufcular-like fwell- 
ings, truncate at top, and llightly concave, produced at 
bottom into a conical furrowed peduncle : the (kin is cori¬ 
aceous, whitilh, alh-coloured, veined, yellow within, and 
very fmooth : the cells are from four to feven : and the 
partitions are thin, like paper, and flexuofe. The feeds 
are from threq to five in each cell, ovale, varioufly an¬ 
gular from the pfeflure of thofe next them,' of v a yel. 
lowilh cinnamon colour, fixed to the internal angle of 
the cells from the top to the middle by permanent 
twifted umbilical chords, fo that the upper ones are 
pendulous, but the lower obliquely or horizontally de¬ 
cumbent. The flowers fmell like the lily ; but Hie 
wood is extremely fetid, even after it is dry : the inha. 
bitants ufe it for hoops. It is a native of Surinam and 
the ifland of Cayenne. 
Pirigara Lexapetala, Aublet Guian. 490. t. 193. isa dif- 
tift fpecies from this. 
GUS'TAVSWERTH, a fortrefs of Finland, in the 
province of Nyland, near Helfingfors. 
GUSTA'VUS, I. II. andlll. illuftrious kings of Swe¬ 
den ; for the civil and political hiftory of whom, as 
well as for its other kings, fee the article Sweden. 
GUS'TEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and duchy of Anhalt Gothen : five miles 
weft of Bernburg. 
GUST'FUL, adj. Tafteful : well-tafted.—What he 
defaults from fome dry infipid fin, is but.to make up 
for fome other more gufful. Decay of Piety. 
GUS'TI, a town of Perliaj in the province of Farfif- 
tan": feventy-five miles north of Schiras. 
GUS'TO,/. [Italian.] The relilh of any thing ; the 
power by which any thing excites fenfations in the pa¬ 
late.—-Pleafant gufos gratify the appetite of the luxuri¬ 
ous. Derham. —Intellectual tafte; liking.—In reading 
what I have written, let them bring no particular gufo 
along with them. Dryden. 
GUS'TOU, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, in Anterior Pomerania : twelve miles fdivth- 
weft of Bergen. 
GUS'TROW, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Mecklenburg, fituated on 
the Nebel river, celebrated for its v beer, which forms 
the principal part of its trade: lixteen miles Youth of 
Roftock, and twenty-nine eaft of Wiimar. Xat/53. 44. 
N. 29. 54. E. Ferro. 
GUS'TY, adj. Stormy; tempeftuous.—Whirl’d tem- 
peftuous by th c gufy wind. Thomfon. 
Once upon a raw and gufy day, 
The troubled Tyber charing with his fiVores. Shakefpeare. 
GU^SUM, a town of Sweden, in the province of Eaft 
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