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- English Word Gummous Definition Of or pertaining to a gumma.
- English Word Gummy Definition Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
- English Word Gump Definition A dolt; a dunce.
- English Word Gumption Definition Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.
- English Word Gumption Definition The art of preparing colors.
- English Word Gumption Definition Megilp.
- English Word Gun Definition of Gin
- English Word Gun Definition A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
- English Word Gun Definition A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
- English Word Gun Definition Violent blasts of wind.
- English Word Gun Definition To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
- English Word Guna Definition In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.
- English Word Gunarchy Definition See Gynarchy.
- English Word Gunboat Definition A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.
- English Word Guncotton Definition See under Gun.
- English Word Gundelet Definition See Gondola.
- English Word Gunflint Definition A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.
- English Word Gunjah Definition See Ganja.
- English Word Gunlock Definition The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.
- English Word Gunnage Definition The number of guns carried by a ship of war.
- English Word Gunnel Definition A gunwale.
- English Word Gunnel Definition A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
- English Word Gunner Definition One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.
- English Word Gunner Definition A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.
- English Word Gunner Definition The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.
- English Word Gunner Definition The sea bream.
- English Word Gunnery Definition That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
- English Word Gunnie Definition Space left by the removal of ore.
- English Word Gunning Definition The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
- English Word Gunny Definition Alt. of Gunny cloth