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{ } n. [ F. agouti, acouti, Sp. aguti, fr. native name. ] (Zool.) 1. A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the color of the agouti{ 1 }, a grayish-brown of grizzled texture; -- used especially to describe the color of the fur of a strain of mice. Also used attributively. [ PJC ]

n. The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man stepped from his slender dugout. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place dug out. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. [ Western U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Baseball) a structure on the edge of the playing field in foul territory, partly below ground and partly above ground, open toward the playing field but roofed and with the other three sides closed. It is typically long and narrow, having benches where the players may sit when not on the playing field; as, the foul ball was tipped into the dugout. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. goutte a drop, the gout, the disease being considered as a defluxion, fr. L. gutta drop. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A drop; a clot or coagulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc. It is an inherited disease of purine metaboism, which causes an increased level of uric acid in the blood, and leads to deposition of crystals of sodium urate in cartilage within joints and in connective tissue. It can be alleviated by a diet low in purines, and is treated by drugs which block formation of uric acid. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gout stones. See Chalkstone, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. gustus taste. See Gusto. ] Taste; relish. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a gouty manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being gouty; gout.

{ n. [ So called from having been formerly used in assuaging the pain of the gout. ] (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the gout. “Gouty matter.” Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Swollen, as if from gout. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Boggy; as, gouty land. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout. --
Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout. --
Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of urate of sodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] High relish or flavor; high seasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout competition for the browser market.
Syn. -- ferocious, fierce, knockdown-dragout, tearing. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]