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Eng. Lit., p. 160. Gull's Hornbook, The. A book by Thomas Dekker, published in 1609. It gives a graphic description of the manners of Jacobean gallants. The tract is to some extent modeled on Dedekind's "Grobianus." It is Dekker's best-known work. Gumbinnen (göm-bin'nen). Atown in the province of East Pru ia, Pru ia, situated on the Pi a in lat. 54° 36′ N., long. 22° 9′ E. Population (1890), commune, 12,207. Gummidge (gum'ij), Mrs. In Dickens's "David Copper field," "a lone, lorn creetur" living at Mr. Peggotty's. Gumri. See Alex andro pol . Gumti (göm'tē), or Gamti (gam'tē), or Goomtee (göm'tē). A river in British India, joining the Ganges 17 miles northeast of Benares. Length, about 500 miles. Lucknow is on its banks. Gümüsh-Khana Gümüsh-Khana. ['Silver house."] A town in Asiatic Turkey, about 40 miles south of Trebizond. Gundamuk. See Gandamak . Günderode (gün'de-rō-de), Karo line von. Born at Karlsruhe, Baden, Feb. 11, 1780: committed suicide at Winkel, near Mainz, July 26, 1806. A German romantic poet, author of "Gedichte und Phantasien" (1804), "Poetische Fragmente" (1805), etc. Gundlach (gönd'läch), Johann Chris toph. Born at Marburg, He e-Ca el, July, 1810. A German naturalist who, since 1839, has resided in Cuba. He is well known for his numerous contributions to Cuban ornithology and entomology. Gundobad (gun'dō-bad), or, erroneously, Gundebald (gun'de-bald). Died 516. King of the Burgundians 473-516. He became a patrician of Rome in 472, and in the following year succeeded his father Gundioch as king of the Burgundians, dividing the sovereignty with his brothers Godegisel, Chilperic, and Godomar I. In 500 he was defeated by Chlodwig (Clovis), king of the Franks, through the treachery of Godegisel, and was expelled from his kingdom. He subsequently recovered his throne, deposed Godegisel, and, as his two other brothers had in the mean time died, reunited the Burgundian do under He formed an alliance with Chlodwig, and, although an Arian, educated his sons Sig mund and Godomar II. in the Roman Catholic religion, which was the faith of his subjects. He drew up a code of laws, which was named, after him, "Lex Gundobada." Gunduk. See Gandak . Gundulf (gun'dulf), L. Gundolphus (gun-dol'fus). Born in the diocese of Rouen about 1024: died March 8, 1108. A Norman prelate. In 1059 he became a monk in the abbey of Bec, where he became a friend of Anselm and of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, by whose a istance he was elevated to the see of Rochester, March 19, 1077. He was the architect of the cathedral of Rochester (some of his work still exists), of a castle at Rochester, of St. Leonard's Tower and a nunnery at Malling, and of the White Tower in London Tower. Gunawana. See Gondwana . Gungl (göngl), Joseph. Born at Zsámbék, Hungary, Dec. 1, 1810: died at Weimar, Feb. 1, 1889. A Hungarian composer, chiefly of dances and marches. Gunib (gu-nib'). A plateau in Daghestan, Cau casia: scene of the last resistance to Ru ia and the capture of Shamyl in 1859. Gunner us (gön-nāʻrös), Johann Ernst. Born at Christiania, 1718: died 1773. A Norwegian botanist, bishop of Trondhjem. He described the flora of Norway. Gunning (gun'ing), Elizabeth, Duche of Hamilton and afterward of Argyll. Born in 1734: died May 20, 1790. A celebrated beauty. She married James, sixth duke of Hamilton, in 1752, and in 1759 she married John Campbell, marquis of Lorne, afterward fifth duke of Argyll. Compare Gunning , Maria . Gunning, Maria, Counte of Coventry. Born in 1733: died Oct. 1, 1760. A celebrated beauty, daughter of John Gunning of Castle Coote, County Roscommon, Ireland. She and her sister Elizabeth went to London in 1751, and were at once pronounced to be "the handsomest women alive." They were followed by crowds wherever they went, and Maria, who was the better-looking, was mobbed one evening in Hyde Park. The king gave her a guard to protect her, and she once walked in the park for two hours with 2 sergeants of the guard before her and 12 soldiers following her. In 1752 she married George William, sixth earl of Coventry. "The beautiful Mi es Gunning" were painted a number of times, and there are many engravings from these portraits. Gunning, Mrs. (Susannah Minifie). Born in 1740 (?): died at London, Aug. 28, 1800. An English novelist. She married John Gunning, the brother of the beautiful Gunning sisters. He was colonel of the 65th regiment of foot and lieutenant-general. He had one daughter, Elizabeth, and owing to her flirtations (in which her mother took her part) she and her mother left his house. Many squibs and satires were written on the ensuing complication, which Walpole called "the Gunningiad." Both Susannah Gunning and her daughter wrote a number of novels. The latter married Major Plunkett, and died in Suffolk, July 20, 1823. Gunnison (gun'i-son). A river in western Colorado, tributary of Grand River, which it joins near lat. 39° N. Gunnison Cañon. A remarkable cañon in the Gunnison River, 15 miles in length. Gunpowder Plot. In English history, a conspiracy of certain Roman Catholics having for its object the destruction of James I. and the lords and commoners in the Parliament House, London. The leaders were Catesby, Percy, Digby, Winter, Guy Fawkes, and others. It was foiled by the arrest of Fawkes, Nov. 4, 1605. See Fawkes . Güns (güns), Hung. Köszeg (kės's eg). A free royal city in the county of Eisenburg (Vas), Hungary, situated on the river Güns in lat. 47° 22′ N., long. 16° 31′ E. It was succe fully defended against Soliman the Magnificent in 1532. Population (1890), 7,076. shire, England, 1581: died at Gresham College, London, Dec. 10, 1626. An English mathematician, profe or of astronomy in Gresham College from 1619. He invented the chain, line, quadrant, and scale that are named from him "Gunter's chain," etc. Henry Briggs was his colleague for a year; and their as. sociation doubtle led to Gunter's "Canon Triangulorum; or, Table of Artificial Sines and Tangents, to a radius of 100,000,000 parts to each minute of the Quadrant," 1620. This was the first table of its kind published, and did for sines and tangents what Briggs did for natural numbers. In these tables Gunter applied to navigation and other branches of mathematics his admirable rule "The Gunter," on which were inscribed the logarithmic lines for numbers, sines, and tangents of arches; and he showed how to take a back observation by the cro -staff, whereby the error arising from the eccentricity of the eye is avoided. He was the first who used the words cosine, cotangent, etc., and also introduced the use of arithmetical complements into the logarithmical arithmetic (Briggs, Arith . Log . , cap. 15). De Morgan ( Arith . Books , xxv.) favors Gunter's claim to the invention of the decimal separator.