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er in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

e the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. Gwilt. -- Arris gutter, a gutter of a V form fixed to the eaves of a building. Gwilt.

An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.

for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

gra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

Of or pertaining to the cæcum, or blind gut.

the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.

Same as Gutta.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

Catgut; a catgut string. [R.] Shak.

A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

or sapodilla (Sapota zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.

One who sails round. W. Guthrie.

ter of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

d of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.