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A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page.

Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.

oyed in etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.

Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus).

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

A gutter, groove, or channel.

A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well. Limber boards (Naut.), short pieces of plank forming part of the lining of a ship's floor immediately above the timbers, so as to prevent the limbers from becoming clogged. -- Limber box or chest (Mil.), a box on the limber…

ble, and perhaps the first complete book, printed with movable metal types; -- printed by Gutenberg at Mentz, 1450-55; -- so called because a copy was found in the Mazarine Library, at Paris, about 1760. -- Mazarine blue, a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin.

he same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta. Oxf. Gloss.

the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 243-246. The letter N came into English through the Latin and Greek from the Phoenician, which probably derived it from the Egyptian as the ultimate origin. It is etymologica…

A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.

e ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.…

A small water course or gutter. Ash.

l) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.

f the genus Scorpæna, as the European hogfish (S. scrofa), and the California species (S. guttata).