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Pertaining to the throat. [Obs.] "Gutturine tumor." Ray.

To make in the throat; to gutturalize. [R.] For which the Germans gutturize a sound. Coleridge.

A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo- nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.

Charged or sprinkled with drops.

A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

Sharp; shrill. [Obs.] Johnson.

In a subtle; shrewdly.

Acuteness. Dryden.

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o

A glutton. [Low] Todd.

The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

The act of redarguing; refutation. [Obs. or R.] Bacon.

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. [R.]

Bad small beer. [Slang]

ter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for sev…

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.