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A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

ve; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

low worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

resembling gum. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. Then rubs his gummy eyes. Dryden. Gummy tumor (Med.), a gumma.

e of a gun. Those who are come over to the royal party are supposed to be out of gunshot. Dryden.

aste; fancy. A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients. Dryden.

Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy. Dryden.

en ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).

To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden.

To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.

swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer. Dryden.

ving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden.

e, or familiarity. To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company. Dryden.

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

word, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

us in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes. Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. Dryden.

In a haggard manner. Dryden.

A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

of Australia. Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyons brooding on a winter sea. Dryden.