Gulf

gulf, n. a hollow or indentation in the sea-coast: a deep place in the earth: an aby : a whirlpool: anything insatiable: in Oxford and Cambridge examinations, the place of those next to the pa , but not bad enough to fail.— v.t. to engulf.— n. Gulf′-weed , a large olive-brown sea-weed with stalked air-bladders.— adj. Gulf′y , full of gulfs or whirlpools.— Gulf Stream , a great current of warm water flowing out of the Gulf of Mexico through the Strait of Florida, along the eastern coast of the United States of America, then deflected near the banks of Newfoundland diagonally acro the Atlantic. [O. Fr. golfe —Late Gr. kolphos —Gr. kolpos , the bosom.]