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Webster 1913 Edition

Gut

Gut

,
Noun.
[OE.
gut
,
got
, AS.
gut
, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to
geoĢtan
to pour. See
FOUND
to cast.]
1.
A narrow passage of water;
as, the
Gut
of Canso
.
2.
An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (
pl.
) bowels; entrails.
3.
One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See
Catgut
.
4.
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
Blind gut
.
See
Caecum
,
Noun.
(b)
.

Gut

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gutted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gutting
.]
1.
To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
2.
To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of;
as, a mob
gutted
the house
.
Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having
gutted
a proper
name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gut

GUT

,
Noun.
The intestinal canal of an animal; a pipe or tube extending, with many circumvolutions, from the pylorus to the vent. This pipe is composed of three coats,and is attached to the body by a membrane called the mesentery. This canal is of different sizes in different parts, and takes different names. The thin and small parts are called the duodenum, the ilium, and the jejunum; the large and thick parts are called the eaecum, the colon, the rectum. By this pipe, the undigested and unabsorbed parts of food are conveyed from the stomach and discharged. This word in the plural is applied to the whole mass formed by its natural convolutions in the abdomen.
2.
The stomach; the receptacle of food.
3.
Gluttony; love of gormandizing.

GUT

,
Verb.
T.
To take out the bowels; to eviscerate.
1.
To plunder of contents.
Gutta serena, in medicine, amaurosis; blindness occasioned by a diseased retina.

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