Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 52
Gumbo (n.) (pl. Gumbos) 秋葵，加有秋葵的濃湯，堅硬黏土 [Written also gombo.] A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. Especially, A thick stew made with chicken ({chicken gumbo), or seafood ({seafood gumbo}), thickened with okra or file, and also containing greens and often hot spices; it is particularly popular in Louisiana.
Gumbo (n.) The okra plant or its pods.
Gumbo (n.) Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water [syn: gumbo, gumbo soil].
Gumbo (n.) Tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus [syn: okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus].
Gumbo (n.) Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews [syn: gumbo, okra].
Gumbo (n.) A soup or stew thickened with okra pods.
Gumboil (n.) (Med.) A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.
Gumboil (n.) A boil or abscess on the gums.
Gummata (n. pl. ) of Gumma.
Gumma (n.) (Med.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.
Gumma (n.) A small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis.
Gummatous (a.) (Med.) 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.
Gumminess (n.) The property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness].
Gummite (n.) (Min.) A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.
Gummite (n.) A gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende.
Gummosity (n.) Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature. [R.] -- Floyer.
Gummous (a.) Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
Gummous (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to a gumma.
Gummy (a.) 樹膠的，粘的 Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. -- Milton.
Then rubs his gummy eyes. -- Dryden.
Gummy tumor (Med.), A gumma.
Gummy (a.) Having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous].
Gummy (a.) Covered with adhesive gum [syn: gummed, gummy].
Gump (n.) A dolt; a dunce. [Low.] -- Holloway.
Gumption (n.) 【口】魄力；精力；進取心；精明；機智 Capacity; shrewdness; common sense. [Colloq.]
One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. -- Lord Lytton.
Gumption (n.) (Paint.) The art of preparing colors. -- Sir W. Scott.
Gumption (n.) Megilp. -- Fairholt.
Gumption (n.) Initiative; resourcefulness.
Gumption (n.) Courage; guts.
Gumption (n.) Sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" [syn: {common sense}, {good sense}, {gumption}, {horse sense}, {sense}, {mother wit}].
Gumption (n.) Fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: {backbone}, {grit}, {guts}, {moxie}, {sand}, {gumption}].
Compare: Gin
Gin (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Gan, Gon, or Gun; p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." -- Chaucer.
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.
As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne. -- Chaucer.
The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. -- Selden.
Gun (n.) (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
Gun (n.) pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore, breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or built-up guns; or according to their use, as field, mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns.
Armstrong gun, A wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
Big gun or Great gun, A piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a person superior in any way; as, bring in the big guns to tackle the problem.
Gun barrel, The barrel or tube of a gun.
Gun carriage, The carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved.
Gun cotton (Chem.), A general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ester of nitric acid.
Gun deck. See under Deck.
Gun fire, The time at which the morning or the evening gun is fired.
Gun metal, A bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
Gun port (Naut.), An opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
Gun tackle (Naut.), The blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from the gun port.
Gun tackle purchase (Naut.), A tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. -- Totten.
Krupp gun, A wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
Machine gun, A breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession. In earlier models, such as the Gatling gun, the cartridges were loaded by machinery operated by turning a crank. In modern versions the loading of cartidges is accomplished by levers operated by the recoil of the explosion driving the bullet, or by the pressure of gas within the barrel. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute by such weapons, with accurate aim. The Gatling gun, Gardner gun, Hotchkiss gun, and Nordenfelt gun, named for their inventors, and the French mitrailleuse, are machine guns.
To blow great guns (Naut.), To blow a gale. See Gun, n., 3.
Gun (v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
Gun (n.) A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel).
Gun (n.) Large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance].
Gun (n.) A person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gunman, gun].
Gun (n.) A professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter].
Gun (n.) A hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine [syn: grease-gun, gun].
Gun (n.) A pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun].
Gun (n.) The discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "two runners started before the gun"; "a twenty gun salute."
Gun (v.) Shoot with a gun.
Gun, () ({ITS, from the ":GUN" command) To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career). "Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it."
Compare can. (1995-02-27)
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.) (Nav.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns, used for operations in shallow waters.
Gunboat (n.) (Nav.) Any small naval vessel carrying mounted guns.
Gunboat (n.) A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols.
Guncotton () See under Gun.
Guncotton (n.) A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives [syn: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, guncotton, nitrocotton].
Compare: Nitrocellulose
Nitrocellulose (n.) (Chem.) 【化】硝化纖維素，硝棉 See Gun cotton, under Gun.
Nitrocellulose (n.) A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives [syn: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, guncotton, nitrocotton].
Gundelet (n.) [Obs.] See Gondola. -- Marston.
Gunfight (n.) [ C ] （尤指牛仔間的）槍戰，火拼 A fight using guns between two or more people, especially cowboys.
Gunfight (n.) A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten [syn: gunfight, gunplay, shootout].
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.
Gunflint (n.) The piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon.
Gunjah (n.) (Bot.) See Ganja.
Gunlock (n.) The mechanism of a gun for producing the discharge. See Lock.
Gunlock (n.) The action that ignites the charge in a firearm [syn: gunlock, firing mechanism].
Gunnage (n.) The number of guns carried by a ship of war.
Gunnel (n.) A gunwale.
Gunnel (n.) (Zool.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Mur[ae]noides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
Compare: Gunwale
Gunwale (n.) (Naut.) 【船】舷緣，舷邊，甲板邊緣 [C] 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. [Written also gunnel.]
Gunnel (n.) Wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel [syn: gunwale, gunnel, gun rest].
Gunnel (n.) Small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic [syn: gunnel, bracketed blenny].
Gunner (n.) [C] 砲手，槍手；火砲瞄準手；獵槍手 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.) (Zool.) The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.
Gunner (n.) (Zool.) The sea bream. [Prov. Eng. or Irish]
Gunner's daughter, The gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang] -- W. C. Russell.
Tail gunner (Mil.) A member of the crew of a bomber airplane who operates the defensive gun at the rear of the airplane.
Gunner (n.) A serviceman in the artillery [syn: artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner].
Gunnery (n.) 砲術；射擊；（總稱）重砲 That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
Gunnery (n.) Guns collectively.
Gunnie (n.) (Mining.) Space left by the removal of ore.
Gunning (n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
The art of gunning was but little practiced. -- Goldsmith. Gunny
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.
Gunny bag or Gunny sack, A sack made of gunny or burlap, used for coarse commodities. In the southern U. S. similar sacks are called crocus sack, croker sack, towsack, and grass sack.
Gunny (n.) Coarse jute fabric [syn: burlap, gunny].
Gunocracy (n.) See Gyneocracy.
Gunpoint (n.) The muzzle's direction; as, he held me up at gunpoint.
Syn: point.
Gunpoint (n.) The open discharging end of a gun.
Syn: gun muzzle, muzzle.
Gunpoint (n.) The gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun" [syn: point, gunpoint].
Gunpoint (n.) 槍口Is the direction that a gun is pointing.
At gunpoint (ph.) 在槍口威脅下 Experiencing or using a threat of killing with a gun.
// The family were held at gunpoint for an hour while the men raided their house.
At gunpoint (ph.) Under threat from a gun.
Gunpowder (n.) [U] 火藥；中國珠茶 A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
Note: Gunpowder consists of from 70 to 80 per cent of potassium nitraate (niter, saltpeter), with 10 to 15 per cent of each of the other ingredients. Its explosive energy is due to the fact that it contains the necessary amount of oxygen for its own combustion, and liberates gases (chiefly nitrogen and carbon dioxide), which occupy a thousand or fifteen hundred times more space than the powder which generated them.
Gunpowder pile driver, A pile driver, the hammer of which is thrown up by the explosion of gunpowder.
Gunpowder plot (Eng. Hist.), A plot to destroy the King, Lords, and Commons, in revenge for the penal laws against Catholics. As Guy Fawkes, the agent of the conspirators, was about to fire the mine, which was placed under the House of Lords, he was seized, Nov. 5, 1605. Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day.
Gunpowder tea, A species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.
Compare: Explosive
Explosive (a.) 爆炸（性）的；爆發性的； （性情等）暴躁的 Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
Explosive (n.) 爆炸物；炸藥 [C] [U] An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.
Explosive (n.) A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.
Note: [See Guide to Pronunciation, [root] 155-7, 184.]
Explosive (a.) Serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper" [ant: nonexplosive].
Explosive (a.) Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" [syn: explosive, volatile].
Explosive (a.) Sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh."
Explosive (n.) A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck.
Gunpowder (n.) A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks [syn: gunpowder, powder].
Gunpowder (n.) An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.
Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the _Flashawful flabbergastor_, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington."
Gunreach (n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
Gunroom (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Those who are come over to the royal party are supposed to be out of gunshot. -- Dryden.
Gunshot (a.) Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
Gunshot (n.) The act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: gunfire, gunshot].
Gunsmith (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer. Gunsmithery
Gunsmith (n.) Someone who makes or repairs guns.
Gunsmithery (n.) Alt. of Gunsmithing.
Gunsmithing (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. [R.]
Gunstock (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
Gunstock (n.) The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock" [syn: stock, gunstock].
Gunstone (n.) A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Gunter rig () (Naut.) A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.
Gunter's chain () (Surveying) 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.
Compare: Quadrant
Quadrant (n.) The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Quadrant (n.) (Geom.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90[deg], or one subtending a right angle at the center.
Quadrant (n.) (Anal. (Geom.) One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.
Quadrant (n.) An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90[deg], with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.
Gunner's quadrant, An instrument consisting of a graduated limb, with a plumb line or spirit level, and an arm by which it is applied to a cannon or mortar in adjusting it to the elevation required for attaining the desired range.
Gunter's quadrant. See Gunter's quadrant, in the Vocabulary.
Hadley's quadrant, A hand instrument used chiefly at sea to measure the altitude of the sun or other celestial body in ascertaining the vessel's position. It consists of a frame in the form of an octant having a graduated scale upon its arc, and an index arm, or alidade pivoted at its apex.
Mirrors, called the index glass and the horizon glass, are fixed one upon the index arm and the other upon one side of the frame, respectively.
When the instrument is held upright, the index arm may be swung so that the index glass will reflect an image of the sun upon the horizon glass, and when the reflected image of the sun coincides, to the observer's eye, with the horizon as seen directly through an opening at the side of the horizon glass, the index shows the sun's altitude upon the scale; -- more properly, but less commonly, called an octant.
Quadrant of altitude, An appendage of the artificial globe, consisting of a slip of brass of the length of a quadrant of one of the great circles of the globe, and graduated.
It may be fitted to the meridian, and being movable round to all points of the horizon, serves as a scale in measuring altitudes, azimuths, etc.
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.
Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in surveying and navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of dividers alone.
Gunwale (n.) (Naut.) 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. [Written also gunnel.]
Gurge (n.) A whirlpool. [Obs.]
The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. -- Milton.
Gurge (v. t.) To swallow up. [Obs.]
Gurgeons (n. pl.) [Obs.] See Grudgeons.
Grudgeons, Gurgeons, (n. pl.) Coarse meal. [Obs.]
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.
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. -- Young.
Gurgle (n.) The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." -- W. Thompson.
Gurglet (n.) A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.
Gurglingly (adv.) In a gurgling manner.
Compare: Gargoyle
Gargoyle (n.) (Arch.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]
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. See Girl. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gurlet (n.) (Masonry) A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge. -- Knight.
Gurmy (n.) (Mining) A level; a working. Gurnard
Gurnard (n.) Alt. of Gurnet.
Gurnet (n.) (Zool.) 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. [Written also gournet.]
Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.
Gurniad (n.) (Zool.) See Gwiniad.
Compare: Gwiniad
Gwiniad (n.) (Zool.) A fish ({Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly. [Written also gwyniad, guiniad, gurniad.]
Gurry (n.) An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter. [Obs. or Local] -- Holland.
Gurry (n.) A small fort. [India]
Gurt (n.) (Mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. -- Page.
Gurts (n. pl.) Groats. [Obs.]
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.
He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. -- Ps ixxviii 20.
A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. -- Spenser.
Gush (v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. [Colloq.]
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.
The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains. -- Byron.
Gush (v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment. [Collog.]
Gusher (n.) One who gushes. [Colloq.]
Gushing (a.) Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." -- Milton.
Gushing (a.) Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [Colloq.]
Gushingly (adv.) In a gushing manner; copiously. -- Byron.
Gushingly (adv.) Weakly; sentimentally; effusively. [Colloq.]
Gusset (n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
Seam and gusset and band. -- Hood.
Gusset (n.) Anything resembling a gusset in a garment. as:
Gusset (n.) (Armor) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
Gusset (n.) (Mach.) 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.) (Her.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
Gust (n.) The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto.
An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite. -- Jer. Taylor.
Gust (n.) Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust. -- Pope.
Gust (n.) Intellectual taste; fancy.
A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients. -- Dryden.
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. -- Milton.
Gust (n.) A sudden violent burst of passion. -- Bacon.
Gust (v. t.) To taste; to have a relish for. [Obs.]
Gust (n.) A strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust" [syn: gust, blast, blow].
Gust (n.) [C] [S1] [(+of)] 一陣強風（或狂風）；（雨，煙等的）一陣突發；（怒，笑等的）爆發 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.) (Obs.) The sensation of taste.
Gust (n.) (Obs.) Inclination, liking.
Gust (n.) Keen delight.
Gust (n.) A sudden brief rush of wind.
Gust (n.) A sudden outburst : Surge.
// A gust of emotion.
Gustily (adv.) 陣風地；刮風地；突發地 With sudden gusts (= strong blows) of wind, strong breaths, etc.
// Outside, the wind was blowing gustily, swaying the trees and ratting the windows.
// When I told her the news, she sighed gustily and said, “I'm not surprised.”
Gustiness (n.) [U] 暴風；陣風；突發The condition of being gusty; the presence of gusts of wind.
Gusty (a.) 陣風的；刮風的；突發的 Blowing in or marked by gusts.
// A gusty storm.
Gusty (a.) High-flown, wordy, or overwrought.
// Gusty rhetoric.
Gust (v. i.) (gusted; gusting; gusts) To blow in gusts.
// Winds gusting up to 40 mph.