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a gutter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

A gothamist.

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

A Gothic idiom.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

p. p. of Get.

A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

Woad. [Obs.]

a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. Farrow.

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

See Plum Gouger.

A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.

The venereal disease. [Obs.]

See Golding.

An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.

A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber. Tylor.

One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species.