Gruyère cheese
(||Gru"yère` cheese") A kind of cheese made at Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese
containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse.
Gry
(Gry) n. [Gr syllable, bit.]
1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.
2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]
Gryde
(Gryde) v. i. To gride. See Gride. Spenser.
Gryfon
(Gryf"on) n. [Obs.] See Griffin. Spenser.
Gryllus
(||Gryl"lus) n. [L., locust.] (Zoöl.) A genus of insects including the common crickets.
Grype
(Grype) v. t. To gripe. [Obs.] See Gripe. Spenser.
Grype
(Grype), n. [Gr. gry`f, grypo`s, griffin. See Griffin.] (Zoöl.) A vulture; the griffin. [Written also
gripe.] [Obs.]
Gryphæa
(||Gry*phæ"a) n. [NL., fr. I gryphus, or qryps, gen. gryphis, a griffin.] (Zoöl.) A genus of cretaceous
fossil shells allied to the oyster.
Gryphite
(Gryph"ite) n. [Cf. F. gryphite.] (Paleon.) A shell of the genus Gryphea.
Gryphon
(Gryph"on) n. (Zoöl.) The griffin vulture.
Grysbok
(||Grys"bok) n. [D. grijs gray + bok buck.] (Zoöl.) A small South African antelope It is speckled
with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.
Guacharo
(||Gua*cha"ro) n. [Cf. Sp. guácharo sickly, dropsical, guacharaca a sort of bird.] (Zoöl.) A
nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); — called also
oilbird.
It resembles the goatsuckers and nighthawks, but feeds on fruits, and nests in caverns. A pure oil, used
in place of butter, is extracted from the young by the natives.
Guacho
(Gua"cho) n.; pl. Guachos [Spanish American.]
1. One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.
2. An Indian who serves as a messenger.
Guaco
(Gua"co) n. [Sp.] (Bot.) (a) A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote
to serpent bites. Lindley. (b) The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose.
Guaiac
(Gua"iac) a. [See Guaiacum.] Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. — n. Guaiacum.
Guaiacum
(Gua"ia*cum) n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Hayti.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies
and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written also guaiac.]
