| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| gun | of Gin, 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., A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon., Violent blasts of wind., To practice fowling or hunting small game; — chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning. | |
| gue | noun | A sharper; a rogue. |
| gum | noun | The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws., To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer., A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins., See Gum tree, below., A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log., A rubber overshoe., To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance., To exude or from gum; to become gummy. |
| gut | noun | A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso., An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails., One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut., 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., To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate., To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. |
| guy | noun | A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened., To steady or guide with a guy., A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot., A person of queer looks or dress., To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule. |