gut (gut)

t.; pret. and pp. gutted, ppr. gut ting. [ME. gutten; from the noun.] 1. To take out the entrails of; disembowel; eviscer ate. The fishermen save the most part of their fish: some are gutted , splitted, powdered, and dried. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 2. To plunder of contents; destroy or strip the interior of: as, the burglars gutted the store. In half an hour the lately splendid residence of the proprietor of the greatest private banking-house in London was gutted from cellar to ridge-pole. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 311. gut-formed (gut'fôrmd), a. Formed like a gut. The term is applied by Darwin to two glands which lie one on each side of the stomach of cirripeds: considered by Huxley as probably acce ory glands of the reproductive organs, analogous to those which secrete the walls of the ovisac in copepods. See second cut under Balanus.