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to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. Gutta serena Etym: [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. -- Guttæ band (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.

arious trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is e…

Spotted, as if discolored by drops.

Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. Bailey.

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

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

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

Same as Gutta.

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.

Same as Gutta.

A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

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.

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.

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

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