ng galley, of former times, expressly built for
smuggling gold across the Channel, in use at Deal.

GUINEAMAN. A negro slave-ship.

GUINEA-PIGS. The younger midshipmen of an Indiaman.

GUIST. The same as _guess_ or _guest_ (which see).

GULDEN. A name for a water-fowl.

GULF, OR GULPH. A capacious bay, and sometimes taking the name of a sea
when it is very extensive; such are the Euxine or Black Sea, otherwise
called the Gulf of Constantinople; the Adriatic Sea, called also the
Gulf of Venice; the Mediterranean is itself a prodigious specimen. A
gulf is, strictly speaking, distinguished from a sea in being smaller,
and from a bay in being larger and deeper than it is broad. It is
observed that the sea is always most dangerous near gulfs, from the
currents being penned up by the shores.

GULF-STREAM. Is especially referable to that of Mexico, the waters of
which flow in a warm stream at various velocities over the banks between
Cuba and America, past the Bermudas, touch the tail of the great bank of
Newfoundland, and thence in a sweep to Europe, part going north, and the
other southerly down to the tropics again.

GULF-WEED. The _Fucus natans_, considered to belong to the Gulf Stream,
and found floating in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. Many small
crustacea live amongst it, and assume its bright orange-yellow hue.

GUL-GUL. A sort of chunam or cement made of pounded sea-shells mixed
with oil, which hardens like a stone, and is put over a ship's bottom in
India, so that worms cannot penetrate even when the copper is off.

GULL. A well-known sea-bird of the genus _Larus_; there are many
species. Also, a large trout in the north. The name is, moreover,
familiarly used for a lout easily deceived or cheated; thus Butler in
_Hudibras_--

"The paltry story is untrue,
And forg'd to cheat such gulls as you."

It is also applied to the washing away of earth by the violent flowing
of water; the origin perhaps of the Kentish gull-stream.

GULLET. A small stream in a water-worn course.

GULL-SHARPER. One who preys upon Johnny Raws.

GULLY. The channels worn on the face of mountains by heavy rains. Also,
a rivulet which empties itself into the sea.

GULLY SQUALL. Well known off tropical America in the Pacific,
particularly abreast of the lakes of Leon, Nicaragua, &c. Monte Desolado
gusts have dismantled many stout ships.

GULPIN. An awkward soldier; a weak credulous fellow [from the Gaelic
_golben_