guttuloust (gutulus)

[ It [ice] is plain upon the surface of the water, but round in hail, which is also a glaciation, and figured in its guttu lous descent from the air. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1. guttur (gut'er), n.; pl. guttura (gut'u-rä). [L., the throat. Hence ult. goiter.] 1. The throat. [Rare.] The letters which we commonly call gutturals, k, g, have nothing to do with the guttur , but with the root of the tongue and the soft palate. Max Müller , Sci. of Lang., 2d ser., p. 164. 2. In ornith., the whole throat or front of the neck of a bird, including gula and jugulum: opposed to cervix, or the back of the neck. The front of the neck has been needle ly subdivided. Guttur is a term sometimes used to include gula and jugulum together; it is simply equivalent to "throat." Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 96. guttural (gut'u-ral), a. and n. [= F. guttural = Sp. gutural = Pg. guttural = It. gutturale, IMG:content-2827.png:[blocks in formation] The guttural character of Spanish is quite alien to the genius of Italian speech. G. P. Lathrop , Spanish Vistas, p. 194. Guttural fo a. See fo al. so-called gutturals are k (written with k, e hard, q, gyascutus Once on a fifth of November I found a Guy trusted to take care of himself there, while his proprietors had gone to dinner. Dickens, Uncommercial Traveller, xxi. Hence-2. A person grotesque in dre , looks, or manners; a dowdy; a "fright." "What extreme guys those artistic fellows usually are!' said young Clintock to Gwendolen. "Do look at the fig. ure he cuts." George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, x. guy2 (gi), v. t. [ Pa es through the streets of Paris, and is guyed by some of those who see him go by. The American, VII. 21. II. n. A sound or combination of sounds pro guy dont, n. See guidon . nounced in the throat, or in the back part of sulet the mouth toward the throat, as k ; any gutguylet, v. t. An obsolete spelling of guilel . tural sound or utterance. In the English alpha spar, purchase, etc.; a guy. and sometimes ch), g, and ng . They are also called back guze (güz), n. [A corruption of gules ?] In palatals , or palatals simply, since the name guttural imher., a roundel, murrey or sanguine. plies a in false description, throat. as if The the same sounds name were actually guzzie, n. See guzzy . similar sounds of other languages, also to rough or rasp. guy-rope (gi'rop), п. A rope used to steady a ing sounds, as the German ch. Many words which are soft and musical in the mouth of a Persian may appear very harsh to our eyes, with a number of consonants and gutturals. Sir W. Jones, Eastern Poetry, i. Larteret dismayed his colleagues by the volubility with which he addre ed his Majesty in German. They tened with envy and terror to the mysterious gutturals tened with terror to the mysterious guttural unison with their wishes. Macaulay, Walpole's Letters. gutturality (gut-u-ral'i-ti), n. [