Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 53
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 (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 ] 一陣狂風，一陣強風 A sudden strong wind.
// A sudden gust of wind blew his umbrella inside out.
// (Figurative) She could hear gusts of laughter (= sudden, loud laughter) from within the room.
Gust (v.) [ I ] 猛刮，勁吹 (v. i.) 一陣陣地勁吹（或移動） To blow strongly.
// Winds gusting to 50 mph brought down power lines.
Gustable (a.) [Obs.] 可嚐的；有風味的 Capable of being tasted; tastable.
This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter. -- Harvey.
Gustable (a.) Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.
A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites the appetite, and affects the glands and parts of the mouth. -- Derham.
Gustable (n.) Anything that can be tasted. [Obs.]
Gustard (n.) (Zool.) The great bustard.
Gustation (n.) 嚐味；味覺 The act of tasting. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne. Gustative
Gustation (n.) The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste" [syn: taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality].
Gustatory (a.) 嘗味的；味覺的 Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
Gustatory (a.) Of or relating to gustation [syn: gustatory, gustative, gustatorial].
Gustful (a.) 味美的 Tasteful; well-tasted.
Gustful (a.) 多風的 Gusty. [R.]
A gustful April morn. -- Tennyson.
Gustful (a.) Tasteful; well-tasted. [Obs.] -- Sir K. Digby. -- Gust"ful*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Gustless (a.) Tasteless; insipid. [R.]
Compare: Tasteless
Tasteless (a.) 沒味道的；味道差的；乏味的；不雅觀的；庸俗的；不禮貌的Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
Tasteless (a.) Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. -- Orrery.
Tasteless (a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery; a tasteless remark. -- Taste"less*ly, adv. -- Taste"less*ness, n.
Tasteless (a.) Lacking flavor [ant: tasty].
Tasteless (a.) Lacking aesthetic or social taste [ant: tasteful].
Compare: Insipid
Insipid (a.) 沒有味道的；清淡的；無趣的Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. -- Boyle.
Insipid (a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.
Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him. -- South.
But his wit is faint, and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. -- Dryden.
Syn: Tasteless; vapid; dull; spiritless; unanimated; lifeless; flat; stale; pointless; uninteresting. Insipidity
Insipid (a.) Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid].
Insipid (a.) Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel" [syn: insipid, jejune].
Gusto (n.) Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy ; as, he ate it with gusto. -- Dryden.
Gusto (n.) Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment [syn: gusto, relish, zest, zestfulness].
Gustoso (a. & adv.) [It.] (Mus.) Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.
Gusty (a.) Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.
Upon a raw and gusty day. -- Shak.
Gusty (a.) Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: gusty, puffy].
Gut (n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
Gut (n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
Compare: Entrails
Entrails (n. pl.) 內臟；腸；（物體的）內部The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
Entrails (n. pl.) The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. -- Locke.
Entrails (n.) Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'" [syn: viscera, entrails, innards].
Gut (n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
Gut (n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
Blind gut. See Caecum, n. (b) .
Gutted (imp. & p. p.) of Gut.
Gutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gut.
Gut (v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
Gut (v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.
Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. -- Addison.
Gut (n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut].
Gut (n.) A narrow channel or strait.
Gut (n.) A strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery [syn: catgut, gut].
Gut (v.) Empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building."
Gut (v.) Remove the guts of; "gut the sheep."
Guttae (n. pl. ) of Gutta.
Gutta (n.) A drop.
Gutta (n.) (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.
Gutta serena (Med.), Amaurosis.
Gutt[ae] band (Arch.), The listel or band from which the gutt[ae] hang.
Gutta-percha (n.) A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra Gutta, syn. Dichopsis Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.
Gutta-percha (n.) A whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables.
Guttate (a.) Spotted, as if discolored by drops.
Guttated (a.) Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. -- Bailey.
Guttatrap (n.) The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus ({A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.
Gutter (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
Gutter (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
Gutter (n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
Gutters running with ale. -- Macaulay.
Gutter (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
Gutter (n.) (Bowling) Either of two sunken channels at either side of the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.
Gutter member (Arch.), An architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement.
Gutter plane, A carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters.
Gutter snipe, A neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang]
Gutter stick (Printing), One of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.
Guttered (imp. & p. p.) of Gutter.
Guttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gutter.
Gutter (v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. --Shak.
Gutter (v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] -- Dryden.
Gutter (n.) A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater [syn: gutter, trough].
Gutter (n.) Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" [syn: gutter, sewer, toilet].
Gutter (n.) A worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.).
Gutter (n.) A tool for gutting fish.
Gutter (v.) Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground."
Gutter (v.) Flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face."
Gutter (v.) Wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil."
Gutter (v.) Provide with gutters; "gutter the buildings."
Gutter, () Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered "waterspouts." It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course.
In Gen. 30:38, 41 the Hebrew word rendered "gutters" is rahat, and denotes vessels overflowing with water for cattle (Ex. 2:16); drinking-troughs.
Guttersnipe (n.) (Slang) A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.
Guttersnipe (n.) (Slang) A curbstone broker. [U. S.]
Guttersnipe (n.) (Slang) 貧民窟的小孩；流浪兒；揀破爛的人 Same as street Arab.
Guttersnipe (n.) (Slang) A person of low moral character.
Guttersnipe (n.) A child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas [syn: street urchin, guttersnipe].
Guttifer (n.) (Bot.) 產樹膠或樹脂的植物 A plant that exudes gum or resin.
Guttiferous (a.) (Bot.) 產樹膠的 Yielding gum or resinous substances.
Guttiferous (a.) (Bot.) Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferae) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.
Guttiform (a.) 水滴狀的 Drop-shaped, as a spot of color.
Guttle (v. t. & i.) 貪婪大嚼 To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. -- Dryden.
Guttle (v.) Eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: devour, guttle, raven, pig].
Guttler (n.) A greedy eater; a glutton. [Obs.]
Guttulous (a.) In droplike form. [Obs.]
In its [hail's] guttulous descent from the air. -- Sir T. Browne.
Guttural (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.
Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. -- W. Guthrie.
In such a sweet, guttural accent. -- Landor.
Guttural (n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.
Guttural (a.) Like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs" [syn: croaky, guttural].
Guttural (a.) Relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds."
Guttural (n.) A consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat [syn: guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant].
Gutturalism (n.) The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.]
Gutturality (n.) The quality of being guttural.
Gutturalize (v. t.) To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to.
Gutturally (adv.) In a guttural manner.
Gutturalness (n.) The quality of being guttural.
Gutturine (a.) Pertaining to the throat.
Gutturize (v. t.) To make in the throat; to gutturalize.
Gutturo- () A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo-nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.
Gutty (a.) Charged or sprinkled with drops.
Gutwort (n.) A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.
Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
Guyed (imp. & p. p.) of Guy.
Guying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guy.
Guy (v. t.) To steady or guide with a guy.
Guy (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
Guy (n.) A person of queer looks or dress.
Guy (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
Guyle (v. t.) To guile.
Guze (n.) A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
Guzzled (imp. & p. p.) of Guzzle.
Guzzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guzzle.
Guzzle (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
Guzzle (v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
Guzzle (n.) An insatiable thing or person.
Guzzler (n.) An immoderate drinker.
Gwiniad (n.) A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly.
Gyall (n.) See Gayal.
Gyb (n.) Alt. of Gybe.
Gybe (n.) See Jib.
Gybe (n. & v.) See Gibe.
Gybed (imp. & p. p.) of Gybe.
Gybing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gybe.
Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
Gye (v. t.) To guide; to govern.
Gyle (n.) Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
Gymnal (a. & n.) Same as Gimmal.
Gymnasiarch (n.) An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
Gymnasiums (n. pl. ) of Gymnasium.
Gymnasia (n. pl. ) of Gymnasium.
Gymnasium (n.) A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
Gymnasium (n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
Gymnast (n.) One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.
Gymnastic (a.) Alt. of Gymnastical
Gymnastical (a.) Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
Gymnastic (n.) A gymnast.
Gymnastically (adv.) In a gymnastic manner.
Gymnastics (n.) Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
Gymnic (a.) Alt. of Gymnical.
Gymnical (a.) Athletic; gymnastic.
Gymnic (n.) Athletic exercise.
Gymnite (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia.
Gymnoblastea (n. pl.) The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.