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To deceive; 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.

Act of being gulled. [Obs.] Had you no quirk. To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature B. Jonson

One who gulls; a deceiver.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] Gull"ish*ness, n. [Obs.]

A grooved iron rail or tram plate. [Eng.] Gully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

Any gull living on the seacoast.

A mean, dirty wretch. [Low]

of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

The jager gull.

A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble." Prior.

An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.]

A gull in the plumage of its first year.

A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.