Gumbo (n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
Gumbo (n.) The okra plant or its pods.
Gumboil (n.) A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.
Gummata (pl. ) of Gumma
Gumma (n.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.
Gummatous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.
Gummer (n.) A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
Gummiferous (a.) Producing gum; gum-bearing.
Gumminess (n.) The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.
Gummite (n.) A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.
Gummosity (n.) Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature.
Gummous (a.) Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
Gummous (a.) Of or pertaining to a gumma.
Gummy (a.) Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Gump (n.) A dolt; a dunce.
Gumption (n.) Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.
Gumption (n.) The art of preparing colors.
Gumption (n.) Megilp.
Gun (n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
Gun (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
Gun (n.) Violent blasts of wind.
Gun (v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
Guna (n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.
Gunarchy (n.) See Gynarchy.
Gunboat (n.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.
Guncotton () See under Gun.
Gundelet (n.) See Gondola.
Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.
Gunjah (n.) See Ganja.
Gunlock (n.) The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.
Gunnage (n.) The number of guns carried by a ship of war.
Gunnel (n.) A gunwale.
Gunnel (n.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
Gunner (n.) One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.
Gunner (n.) A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.
Gunner (n.) The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.
Gunner (n.) The sea bream.
Gunnery (n.) That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
Gunnie (n.) Space left by the removal of ore.
Gunning (n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Gunny () Alt. of Gunny cloth
Gunny cloth () A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.
Gunocracy (n.) See Gyneocracy.
Gunpowder (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
Gunreach (n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
Gunroom (n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.
Gunshot (n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.
Gunshot (n.) The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
Gunshot (a.) Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
Gunsmith (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.
Gunsmithery (n.) Alt. of Gunsmith ing
Gunsmith ing (n.) The art or business of a gunsmith.
Gunstick (n.) A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
Gunstock (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
Gunstome (n.) A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.
Gunter rig () A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.
Gunter's chain () The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.
Gunter's line () A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.
Gunter's quadrant () A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.
Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.
Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
Gurge (n.) A whirlpool.
Gurge (v. t.) To swallow up.
Gurgeons (n. pl.) See Grudgeons.
Gurgled (imp. & p. p.) of Gurgle
Gurgling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gurgle
Gurgle (v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
Gurgle (n.) The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."
Gurglet (n.) A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.
Gurgling-ly (adv.) In a gurgling manner.
Gurgoyle (n.) See Gargoyle.
Gurjun (n.) A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.
Gurl (n.) A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl.
Gurlet (n.) A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
Gurmy (n.) A level; a working.
Gurnard (n.) Alt. of Gurnet
Gurnet (n.) One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins.
Gurniad (n.) See Gwiniad.
Gurry (n.) An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.
Gurry (n.) A small fort.
Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
Gurts (n. pl.) Groatts.
Gushed (imp. & p. p.) of Gush
Gushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gush
Gush (v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
Gush (v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
Gush (v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.
Gush (v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.
Gusher (n.) One who gushes.
Gushing (a.) Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters.
Gushing (a.) Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental.
Gushingly (adv.) In a gushing manner; copiously.
Gushingly (adv.) Weakly; sentimentally; effusively.
Gusset (n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
Gusset (n.) Anything resembling a gusset in a garment
Gusset (n.) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
Gusset (n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
Gusset (n.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
Gust (n.) A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.
Gust (n.) A sudden violent burst of passion.