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hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. Luke xvi. 26.

Full of whirlpools or gulfs. Chapman.

To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. It quite engulfs all human thought. Young.

A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]

To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. Milton.

The act of ingulfing, or the state of being ingulfed.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

An abyss; a gulf. "The abysm of hell." Shak.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. Blackmore.

led the "hot region." Prescott. Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf. Sir W. Raleigh.

Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

(Zoöl.), a fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.