Gunsmithery – Gyve

Gunsmithery

GUN'SMITHERY, noun The business of a gunsmith; the art of making small firearms.

Gunstick

GUN'STICK, noun A rammer, or ramrod; a stick or rod to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.

Gunstock

GUN'STOCK, noun The stock or wood in which the barrel of a gun is fixed.

Gunstone

GUN'STONE, noun A stone used for the shot of cannon. Before the invention of iron balls, stones were used for shot.

Guntackle

GUN'TACKLE, noun The tackle used on board of ships to run the guns out of the ports, and to secure them at sea. The tackles are pulleys affixed to the sides of a gun-carriage.

Gunwale

GUN'WALE

GUN'NEL, noun The upper edge of a ship's side; the uppermost wale of a ship, or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the fore-castle, being the uppermost bend which finishes the upper works of the hull.

Gurge

GURGE, noun [Latin gurges.] A whirlpool. [Little used.]

GURGE, verb transitive To swallow. [Not in use.]

Gurgion

GUR'GION, noun The coarser part of meal separated from the bran. [Not used.]

Gurgle

GUR'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin gurges. See Gargle, which seems to be of the same family, or the same word differently applied.]

To run as liquor with a purling noise; to run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream on a stony bottom.

Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace.

Gurgling

GURG'LING, participle present tense Running or flowing with a purling sound.

Gurhofite

GUR'HOFITE, noun A subvariety of magnesian carbonate of lime, found near Gurhof, in Lower Austria. It is snow white, and has a dull, slightly conchoidal, or even fracture.

Gurnard

GUR'NARD, noun A fish of several species of the genus Trigla. The head is loricated with rough lines, or bony plates, and there are seven rays in the membranes of the gills.

Gurrah

GUR'RAH, noun A kind of plain, coarse India muslin.

Gush

GUSH, verb intransitive

1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; as, blood gushes from a vein in venesection.

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out. Psalms 78:20.

2. To flow copiously. Tears gushed from her eyes.

GUSH, verb transitive To emit in copious effusion.

The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. [Unusual.]

GUSH, noun A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquor in a large quantity and with force; the fluid thus emitted.

Gushing

GUSH'ING, participle present tense Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as gushing waters.

1. Emitting copiously; as gushing eyes.

Gusset

GUS'SET, noun A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening or enlarging some part.

Gust

GUST, noun [Latin gustus, gusto; Gr. a contracted word, for it has taste.]

1. Taste; tasting, or the sense of tasting. More generally, the pleasure of tasting; relish.

2. Sensual enjoyment.

Where love is duty on the female side,

On theirs, mere sensual gust and sought with surly

pride.

3. Pleasure; amusement; gratification.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust

4. Turn of fancy; intellectual taste.

A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients. [Taste is now generally used.]

GUST, verb transitive To taste; to have a relish. [Little used.]

GUST, noun

1. A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden rushing or driving of the wind, of short duration.

2. A sudden, violent burst of passion.

Gustable

GUST'ABLE, adjective That may be tasted; tastable.

1. Pleasant to the taste. [Little used.]

Gustation

GUSTA'TION, noun The act of tasting. [Little used.]

Gustful

GUST'FUL, adjective Tasteful; well-tasted; that relishes.

Gustfulness

GUST'FULNESS, noun Relish; pleasantness to the taste.

Gustless

GUST'LESS, adjective Tasteless.

Gusto

GUST'O, noun Relish; that which excites pleasant sensations in the palate or tongue.

1. Intellectual taste. [Little used.]

Gusty

GUST'Y, adjective Subject to sudden blasts of wind; stormy; tempestuous.

Once upon a raw and gusty day,

The troubled Tyber chafing with his shores--

Gut

GUT, noun The intestinal canal of an animal; a pipe or tube extending, with many circumvolutions, from the pylorus to the vent. This pipe is composed of three coats, and is attached to the body by a membrane called the mesentery. This canal is of different sizes in different parts, and takes different names. The thin and small parts are called the duodenum, the ilium, and the jejunum; the large and thick parts are called the eaecum, the colon, the rectum. By this pipe, the undigested and unabsorbed parts of food are conveyed from the stomach and discharged. This word in the plural is applied to the whole mass formed by its natural convolutions in the abdomen.

2. The stomach; the receptacle of food.

3. Gluttony; love of gormandizing.

GUT, verb transitive To take out the bowels; to eviscerate.

1. To plunder of contents.

GUTta serena, in medicine, amaurosis; blindness occasioned by a diseased retina.

Gutted

GUT'TED, participle passive Deprived of the bowels; eviscerated; deprived of contents.

Gutter

GUT'TER, noun [Latin gutta, a drop.]

1. A channel for water; a hollow piece of timber, or a pipe, for catching and conveying off the water which drops from the eaves of a building.

2. A channel or passage for water; a hollow in the earth for conveying water; and, in popular usage, a channel worn in the earth by a current of water.

GUT'TER, verb transitive To cut or form into small hollows.

GUT'TER, verb intransitive To be hollowed or channeled.

1. To run or sweat as a candle.

Guttle

GUT'TLE, verb transitive To swallow. [Not used.]

GUT'TLE, verb intransitive To swallow greedily. [Not used.]

Guttulous

GUT'TULOUS, adjective [from Latin guttula, a little drop.]

In the form of a small drop, or of small drops. [Little used.]

Guttural

GUT'TURAL, adjective [Latin guttur, the throat.] Pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; as a guttural letter or sound; a guttural voice.

GUT'TURAL, noun A letter pronounced in the throat; as the GR.x.

Gutturally

GUT'TURALLY, adverb In a guttural manner; in the throat.

Gutturalness

GUT'TURALNESS, noun The quality of being guttural.

Gutturine

GUT'TURINE, adjective Pertaining to the throat. [Not in use.]

Gutty

GUT'TY, adjective [from Latin gutta, a drop.] In heraldry, charged or sprinkled with drops.

Gutwort

GUT'WORT, noun A plant.

Guy

GUY, noun gi. In marine affairs, a rope used to keep a heavy body steady while hoisting or lowering; also, a tackle to confine a boom forwards, when a vessel is going large, and to prevent the sail from gybing. guy is also a large slack rope, extending from the head of the main-mast to that of the fore-mast, to sustain a tackle for loading or unloading.

Guzzle

GUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much; to drink frequently.

Well seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise,

Who, while she guzzles, chats the Doctor's praise.

GUZ'ZLE. verb transitive To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust.

--Still guzzling must of wine.

GUZ'ZLE, noun An insatiable thing or person.

Guzzler

GUZ'ZLER, noun One who guzzles; an immoderate drinker.

Gwiniad

GWIN'IAD, noun The whiting, a fish of the salmon or trout kind, found in many lakes in Europe and in Hudson's bay. It is gregarious, and may be taken in vast numbers at a draught.

Gybe

GYBE, noun A sneer. [See Gibe.]

GYBE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to shift a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.

Gybing

GY'BING, participle present tense Shifting a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.

Gye

GYE, verb transitive To guide.

Gymnasium

GYMNASIUM, noun [Gr. from naked.]

In Greece, a place where athletic exercises were performed. Hence, a place of exercise; a school.

Gymnastic

GYMNASTIC, adjective [Latin gymnasticus; Gr. to exercise, from naked; the ancients being naked in their exercises.]

Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body, intended for health, defense or diversion, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin or the hoop, playing with balls, etc. The modern gymnastic exercises are intended chiefly for the preservation and promotion of health.

GYMNASTIC, noun Athletic exercise.

Gymnastically

GYMNASTICALLY, adverb In a gymnastic manner; athletically.

Gymnastics

GYMNASTICS, noun The gymnastic art; the art of performing athletic exercises.

Gymnic

GYM'NIC, adjective [Latin gymnicus.]

1. Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body.

2. Performing athletic exercises.

GYM'NIC, noun Athletic exercise.

Gymnosophist

GYM'NOSOPHIST, noun [Gr. naked, and a philosopher.]

A philosopher of India, so called from his going with bare feet, or with little clothing. The Gymnosophists in India lived in the woods and on mountains, subsisting on wild productions of the earth. They never drank wine nor married. Some of them traveled about, and practiced physic. They believed the immortality and transmigration of the soul. They placed the chief happiness of man in a contempt of the goods of fortune, and of the pleasures of sense.

Gymnosophy

GYM'NOSOPHY, noun The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.

Gymnosperm

GYMNOSPERM, noun [Gr. naked, and seed.] In botany, a plant that bears naked seeds.

Gymnospermous

GYMNOSPERM'OUS, adjective Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.

Gyn

GYN, verb transitive To begin.

Gynander

GYNAN'DER, noun [Gr. a female, and a male.] In botany, a plant whose stamens are inserted in the pistil.

Gynandrian

GYNAN'DRIAN, adjective Having stamens inserted in the pistil.

Gynarchy

GYN'ARCHY, noun [Gr. a woman, and rule.] Government by a female.

Gypseous

GYP'SEOUS, adjective [See Gypsum.] Of the nature of gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

Gypsey

GYP'SEY

GYP'SUM, noun Plaster stone; sulphate of lime; a mineral not infrequently found in crystals, often in amorphous masses. There are several subspecies and varieties; as the foliated, compact, earthy, granular, snowy and branchy. Gypsum is of great use in agriculture and the arts. As a manure, it is invaluable.

Gypsy

GYP'SY, noun [See Gipsey.]

Gyral

GY'RAL, adjective [See Gyre.] Whirling; moving in a circular form.

Gyration

GYRA'TION, noun [Latin gyratio. See Gyre.] A turning or whirling round; a circular motion.

GYRE, noun [Latin gyrus.] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn.

Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.

Gyred

GY'RED, adjective Falling in rings.

Gyrfalcon

GYR'FALCON, noun [Latin hierofalco, from Gr. sacred, and falco, and so named from the veneration of the Egyptians for hawks.

A species of Falco, or hawk.

Gyromancy

GYR'OMANCY, noun [Gr. a circuit, and divination.] A kind of divination performed by walking round in a circle or ring.

Gyve

GYVE, noun Gyves are fetters or shackles for the legs.

GYVEs and the mill had tamed thee.

GYVE, verb transitive To fetter; to shackle; to chain.