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3. (Brass Founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

Grunt"ing*ly, adv. In a grunting manner.

Grun"tle (?), v. i. [Freq. of grunt.] To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]

Grunt"ling (?), n. A young hog.

Grutch (?), v. See Grudge. [Obs.] Hudibras.

||Gru"yËre` cheese" (&?;). A kind of cheese made at GruyËre, ||Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is ||known in the United States as Schweitzerk‰se.

Gry (?), n. [Gr &?; syllable, bit.] 1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.

2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]

Gryde (?), v. i. To gride. See Gride. Spenser.

Gryf"on (?), n. [Obs.] See Griffin. Spenser.

||Gryl"lus (?), n. [L., locust.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of insects including ||the common crickets.

Grype (?), v. t. To gripe. [Obs.] See Gripe. Spenser.

Grype, n. [Gr. gry`f, grypo`s, griffin. See Griffin.] (Zoˆl.) A vulture; the griffin. [Written also gripe.] [Obs.]

||Gry*phÊ"a (?), n. [NL., fr. I gryphus, or qryps, gen. gryphis, a ||griffin.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the ||oyster.

Gryph"ite (?), n. [Cf. F. gryphite.] (Paleon.) A shell of the genus Gryphea.

Gryph"on (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The griffin vulture.

||Grys"bok (?) n. [D. grijs gray + bok buck.] (Zoˆl.) A small South ||African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and ||chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

||Gua*cha"ro (?), n. [Cf. Sp. gu·charo sickly, dropsical, guacharaca a ||sort of bird.] (Zoˆl.) A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad ||(Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.

It resembles the goatsuckers and nighthawks, but feeds on fruits, and nests in caverns. A pure oil, used in place of butter, is extracted from the young by the natives.

Gua"cho (?), n.; pl. Guachos (&?;) [Spanish American.] 1. One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

2. An Indian who serves as a messenger.

Gua"co (?), n. [Sp.] (Bot.) (a) A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley. (b) The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose.

Gua"iac (?), a. [See Guaiacum.] Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum.

Gua"ia*cum (?), n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Hayti.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitÊ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written also guaiac.]

Guan (gw‰n), n. ((Zoˆl.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.

Gua"na (gw‰"n), n. (Zoˆl.) See Iguana.

Gua*na"co (gw*n‰"k), n.; pl. Guanacos (- kz). [Sp. guanaco, Peruv. huanacu. Cf. Huanaco.] (Zoˆl.) A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state. [Written also huanaco.]