Gull teaser(Zoöl.), the jager; — also applied to certain species of terns.

Gullage
(Gull"age) n. Act of being gulled. [Obs.]

Had you no quirk.
To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?
B. Jonson

Guller
(Gull"er) n. One who gulls; a deceiver.

Gullery
(Gull"er*y) n. An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

Gullet
(Gul"let) n. [OE. golet, OF. Goulet, dim. of gole, goule, throat, F. gueule, L. gula; perh. akin to Skr. gula, G. kenle; cf. F. goulet the neck of a bottle, goulotte channel gutter. Cf. Gules, Gully.]

1. (Anat.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

2. Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as: (a) A channel for water. (b) (Engin.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons. (c) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

Gulleting
(Gul"let*ing) n. (Engin.) A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

Gullible
(Gul"li*ble) a. Easily gulled; that may be duped.Gul"li*bii`i*ty n. Burke.

Gullish
(Gull"ish) a. Foolish; stupid. [Obs.]

Gull"ish*ness, n. [Obs.]

Gully
(Gul"ly) n.; pl. Gulles [Etymol. uncertain] A large knife. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Gully
(Gul"ly), n.; pl. Gullies [Formerly gullet.]

1. A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

2. A grooved iron rail or tram plate. [Eng.]

Gully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman.Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

Gull
(Gull) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gulled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gulling.] [Prob. fr. gull the bird; but cf. OSw. gylla to deceive, D. kullen, and E. cullibility.] To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.

The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
Dryden.

I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
Coleridge.

Gull
(Gull), n.

1. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak.

2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak.

Gull
(Gull), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Corn. gullan, W. gwylan.] (Zoöl.) One of many species of long- winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

Among the best known American species are the herring gull the great black-backed gull (L. murinus) the laughing gull and Bonaparte's gull The common European gull is Larus canus.


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