gull

n. 1. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of Celtic origin; cf. Corn. gullan, W. gwylan. ] (Zool.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among the best known American species are the herring gull (Larus argentatus), the great black-backed gull (L. murinus) the laughing gull (L. atricilla), and Bonaparte's gull (L. Philadelphia). The common European gull is Larus canus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gull teaser (Zool.), the jager; -- also applied to certain species of terns. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gulled p. pr. & vb. n. Gulling. ] [ Prob. fr. gull the bird; but cf. OSw. gylla to deceive, D. kullen, and E. cullibility. ] To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gulls; a deceiver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [ R. ] “A mere gullery.” Selden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. golet, OF. Goulet, dim. of gole, goule, throat, F. gueule, L. gula; perh. akin to Skr. gula, G. kenle; cf. F. goulet the neck of a bottle, goulotte channel gutter. Cf. Gules, Gully. ] 1. (Anat.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as: (a) A channel for water. (b) (Engin.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons. (c) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Engin.) A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty n. Burke. [1913 Webster]