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Guit"guit` (?), n. [So called from its note.] (Zoˆl.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family CúrebidÊ, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.

||Gu"la (?), n.; pl. L. Gul∆ (#), E. Gulas (#). [L., the throat, ||gullet.] 1. (Zoˆl.) (a) The upper front of the neck, next to the ||chin; the upper throat. (b) A plate which in most insects supports ||the submentum.

2. (Arch.) A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.

Gu"lar (?), a. [Cf. F. gulaire.] (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin.

Gu"laund (?), n. [Icel. gul- ˆnd.] An arctic sea bird.

Gulch (?), n. 1. Act of gulching or gulping. [Obs.]

2. A glutton. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

3. A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

Gulch, v. t. [OE. gulchen; cf. dial. Sw. gˆlka to gulch, D. gulzig greedy, or E. gulp.] To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]

Guld (gld), n. A flower. See Gold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gul"den (?), n. See Guilder.

Gule (?), v. t. To give the color of gules to.

Gule (?), n. The throat; the gullet. [Obs.]

Throats so wide and gules so gluttonous.

Gauden.

Gules (glz), n. [OE. goules, F. gueules, the same word as gueule throat, OF. gole, goule, L. gula. So named from the red color of the throat. See Gullet, and cf. Gula.] (Her.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.

His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign."

P. Fletcher.

Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules.

Shak.

Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns.

Beau. & Fl.

Gulf (?), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. &?; bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. &?;.] 1. A 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.

2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] Shak.