Gourd tree
(Gourd" tree") (Bot.) A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and
Central America.
Gourdworm
(Gourd"worm") n. (Zoöl.) The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
Gourdy
(Gourd"y) a. [Either fr. gourd, or fr. F. gourd benumbed.] (Far.) Swelled in the legs.
Gourmand
(Gour"mand) n. [F.] A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
That great gourmand, fat Apicius
B. Jonson. Gourmet
(||Gour`met") n. [F.] A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
Gournet
(Gour"net) n. (Zoöl.) A fish. See Gurnet.
Gout
(Gout) n. [F. goutte a drop, the gout, the disease being considered as a defluxion, fr. L. gutta
drop.]
1. A drop; a clot or coagulation.
On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
Shak. 2. (Med.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous
and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints,
after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena,
particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines,
etc. Dunglison.
3. A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.
Gout stones. See Chalkstone, n., 2.
Goût
(||Goût) n. [F., fr. L. gustus taste. See Gusto.] Taste; relish.
Goutily
(Gout"i*ly) adv. In a gouty manner.
Goutiness
(Gout"i*ness), n. The state of being gouty; gout.
Goutweed
(Gout"weed` Gout"wort`) n. [So called from having been formerly used in assuaging the pain
of the gout.] (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); — called also bishop's
weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.
Gouty
(Gout"y) a.
1. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.
2. Pertaining to the gout. "Gouty matter." Blackmore.
3. Swollen, as if from gout. Derham.
4. Boggy; as, gouty land. [Obs.] Spenser.
Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout. — Gouty
concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout. —
Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing
concretions of urate of sodium.
