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- English Word Gustation Definition The act of tasting.
- English Word Gustatory Definition Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
- English Word Gustful Definition Tasteful; well-tasted.
- English Word Gustful Definition Gusty.
- English Word Gustless Definition Tasteless; insipid.
- English Word Gusto Definition Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
- English Word Gustoso Definition Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.
- English Word Gusty Definition Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.
- English Word Gut Definition A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
- English Word Gut Definition An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
- English Word Gut Definition One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
- English Word Gut Definition 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.
- English Word Gut Definition To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
- English Word Gut Definition To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.
- English Word Gutta Definition A drop.
- English Word Gutta Definition 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.
- English Word Gutta-percha Definition A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / 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.
- English Word GuttAe Definition of Gutta
- English Word Guttate Definition Spotted, as if discolored by drops.
- English Word Guttated Definition Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots.