Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GUT'TU-RINE, a.

Pertaining to the throat. [Not in use.] Ray.

GUT'TY, a. [from L. gutta, a drop.]

In heraldry, charged or sprinkled with drops. Encyc.

GUT'WORT, n.

A plant.

GUY, n. [gī; Sp. and Port. guia, from guiar, to guide. See Guide.]

In marine affairs, a rope used to keep a heavy body steady while hoisting or lowering; also, a tackle to confine a boom forward, when a vessel is going large, and to prevent the sail from gybing. Guy is also a large slack rope, extending from the head of the main-mast to that of the fore-mast, to sustain a tackle for loading or unloading. Mar. Dict.

GUZ'ZLE, n.

An insatiable thing or person. Marston.

GUZ'ZLE, v.i. [probably allied to Arm. gouzoucq, the throat. In Italian, gozzo is the crop of a bird.]

To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much; to drink frequently. Well seasoned bowls the gossip's spirit raise, / Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctors praise. Roscommon.

GUZ'ZLE, v.t.

To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust. Still guzzling must of wine. Dryden.

GUZ'ZLED, pp.

Swallowed often.

GUZ'ZLER, n.

One who guzzles; an immoderate drinker.

GUZ'ZLING, ppr.

Swallowing with immoderate gust.

GYBE, n.

A sneer. [See Gibe.]

GYBE, v.t.

In seamen's language, to shift a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other. Mar. Dict.

GYB'ING, ppr.

Shifting a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.

GYE, v.t.

To guide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GYM-NA'SI-ARCH, n. [Gr. γυμνασιον and αρχη.]

A magistrate who presided over the gymnasia in Greece. Anacharsis.

GYM-NA'SI-UM, n. [Gr. γυμνασιον, from γυμνος, naked.]

In Greece, a place where athletic exercises were performed. Hence, a place of exercise; a school. Ash.

GYM'NAST, n.

One who teaches or learns gymnastic exercises.

GYM-NAS'TIC, a. [L. gymnasticus; Gr. γυμναστικος, from γυμναζω, to exercise, from γυμνος, naked; the ancients being naked in their exercises.]

Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body, intended for health, defense or diversion, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin or the hoop, playing with balls, &c. The modern gymnastic exercises are intended chiefly for the preservation and promotion of health.

GYM-NAS'TIC, n.

Athletic exercise.

GYM-NAS'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In a gymnastic manner; athletically. Brown.

GYM-NAS'TICS, n.

The gymnastic art; the art of performing athletic exercises.

GYM'NIC, a. [Gr. γυμνικος; L. gymnicus.]

1. Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body.
2. Performing athletic exercises. Milton.

GYM'NIC, n.

Athletic exercises. Burton.

GYM-NO'SO-PHIST, n. [Gr. γυμνος, naked, and σοφιστης, a philosopher.]

A philosopher of India, so called from his going with bare feet, or with little clothing. The Gymnosophists in India lived in the woods and on mountains, subsisting on wild productions of the earth. They never drank wine, nor married. Some of them traveled about, and practiced physic. They believed the immortality and transmigration of the soul. They placed the chief happiness of man in a contempt of the goods of fortune, and of the pleasures of sense. Encyc.

GYM-NOS'O-PHY, n. [supra.]

The doctrines of the Gymnosophists. Good.