Gutty

( Her.) Charged or sprinkled with guts. Gut'wort, n. ( Med. ) The wild senna. See GLOBULAR I A. Guy, (ghi,) n. [Sp. gui a, a guide.] ( Naut.) A rope used to swing any weight, or to keep steady any heavy body and prevent it from swinging while being hoisted or lowered; also, the tackle by which any fore-and-aft sail is held forward to prevent it gybing. IMG:content-0471.jpg:[ocr errors] A person ridiculously dre ed. (Colloq.) Guyan, (ghi'an,) in Ohio, a township of Gallia coun ty. Guyana. SEE GUIANA. Guyandotte, ( ghi'an - dott ,) or GUTAN, GHIAN, in W. Virginia, a river, rises in Wyoming co., and flows a general N.W. course to the Ohio River, which it joins few miles below Barboursville. -A post-village of Cabell co., on the Ohio River, at the mouth of the Guyandotte, abt. 228 m. below Wheeling. Guy'aquillite, n. ( Min .) A fo il oxygenated hydrocarbon from Guyaquil, S. America. It is of a pale-yellow color, slightly soluble in water, but largely in alcohol, giving an intensely bitter, yellow solution. Sp . gr . 1.092. Comp . Carbon 76-665, hydrogen 8-174, oxygen 15-161. Guy'mard, in New York , a post-village of Orange co. in bringing the ship's head acro the wind, when the wind exercises its force on the opposite side of the sail to that which it previously affected. Gyges, (ji'jees,) ( Myth ) a son of Cœlus and Terra, represented as having a hundred hands. He, with his brothers, made war against the gods, and was afterwards punished in Tartar us. - A shepherd, who po e ed a ring which rendered him invisible when he turned the stone towards his body. - A Syrian (probably the same as the preceding), to whom Candaules, king of the country, showed his wife naked. The queen was so incensed at this instance of imprudence in her husband, that she ordered Gyges either to prepare for death himself, or to murder Candaules. He chose the latter, married the queen, and ascended the vacant throne, about 718 years before the Christian æra. He was the first of the Mermnadæ who reigned in Lydia. Ho reigned 38 years, and distinguished himself by the immense presents which he made to the oracle of Delphi. Gymnaʼsiarch, n . [Gr. gym nasion, a school, and archein, to govern.] (Gr. Antiq .) The officer among the A then i ans who had charge of the schools, and provided for their management. IMG:content-0472.png:[graphic]