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A huge ray (Manta birostris or Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.] The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. Denham. He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. Emerson.

To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

, like that of the emerald. "Emerald meadows." Byron. Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. -- Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green c…

To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.

current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. Addison.

Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts.

To sail; to float. [Obs.] And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. Spenser.

frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.

A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

To grin or yawn. [Obs.] "[/He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern." Spenser.

A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

per (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

See Gulf.

as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.

dmitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air. This gulf impassable, impervious. Milton. The minds of these zealots were absolutely impervious. Macaulay.

ment composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the Persian Gulf. Called also Persian red. (b) See Almagra. -- Indian rice (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See Rice. -- Indian shot (Bot.), a plant of the genus Canna (C. Indica). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot. See Canna.…

To swallow up, as in a gulf. Fotherby.