2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron;
(pl.) bowels; entrails.
3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for
various purposes. See Catgut.
4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its
cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when
dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
Blind gut. See C∆cum, n. (b).
Gut, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gutting.] 1. To
take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or
contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.
Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its
vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.
Addison.
||Gut"ta (?), n.; pl. Gutt∆ (#). [L.] 1. A drop.
2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a
cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the
lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana,
and drop.
Gutta serena [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. --
GuttÊ band> (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttÊ hang.
Gut"ta-per`cha (?), n. [Malay gutah gum + pertja the tree from which is
it procured.] A concrete juice produced by various 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 extensively used for many economical purposes.
The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.
Gut"tate (?), a. [L. guttatus. Cf. Gutty.] Spotted, as if discolored by
drops.
Gut"ta*ted (?), a. [See Guttate.] Besprinkled with drops, or droplike
spots. Bailey.
Gut"ta*trap (?), n. 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.
Gut"ter (?), n. [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. gouttiËre, fr. OF. gote,
goute, drop, F. goutte, fr. L. gutta.]
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an
eaves channel; an eaves trough.
2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface
water.
Gutters running with ale.
Macaulay.
3. Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the
vent of a gun from repeated firing.
Gutter member (Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the
outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it
with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. --
Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out
gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street
Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of
furniture which separate pages in a form.
Gut*ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guttered (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Guttering.]
1. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. Shak.