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A deep gorge; a gully.

A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull. [Obs.] Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop. Beau. & Fl.

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

To deceive; to trick; to gull. [Obs.]

A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.

Gullibility. [R.] Swift.

Easily deceived; gullible.

A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull. I have learned that . . . I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess. Addison.

Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on gullible. Sir T. Browne.

An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. Shak.

To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.

One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.

That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also .]

a signature, or a signed document. That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. Hudibras. Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. Macaulay.

d flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite.

long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans. -- Frigate mackerel (Zoöl.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States. -…

e English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.

The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.

An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull. [Obs.] To become the geck and scorn O'the other's villainy. Shak.