Chapter Guld to Guna of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Gully
(Gul"ly), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gullied (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Gullying.] To wear into a gully or into gullies.

Gully
(Gul"ly), v. i. To flow noisily. [Obs.] Johnson.

Gulosity
(Gu*los"i*ty) n. [L. gulositas, fr. gulosus gluttonous. See Gullet.] Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Gulp
(Gulp) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gulped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gulping.] [D. gulpen, cf. OD. golpe gulf.] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.

Cowper.

The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative.

Fielding.

To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

Gulp
(Gulp), n.

1. The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

2. A disgorging. [Colloq.]

Gulph
(Gulph) n. [Obs.] See Gulf.

Gult
(Gult) n. Guilt. See Guilt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gulty
(Gult"y) a. Guilty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Guly
(Gul"y) a. Of or pertaining to gules; red. "Those fatal guly dragons." Milton.

Gum
(Gum) n. [OE. gome, AS. gama palate; akin Co G. gaumen, OHG. goumo, guomo, Icel. gmr, Sw. gom; cf. Gr. to gape.] The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

Gum rash (Med.), strophulus in a teething child; red gum. — Gum stick, a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.

Gum
(Gum), v. t. To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of See Gummer.

Gum
(Gum), n. [OE. gomme, gumme, F. gomme, L. gummi and commis, fr. Gr. prob. from an Egyptian form kam; cf. It. gomma.]

1. A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

2. (Bot.) See Gum tree, below.

3. A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log. [Southern U. S.]

4. A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.]

Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. — Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree — Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; — so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. — Gum animi or animé. See Animé. - - Gum arabic,