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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut]
2: a narrow channel or strait
3: a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery [syn: catgut, gut] v
1: empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building"
2: remove the guts of; "gut the sheep"

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation grand unified theory; grand unification theory

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English guttas, plural; probably akin to Old English g?otan to pour Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) bowels, entrails — usually used in plural (2) the basic visceral or emotional part of a person b. alimentary canal; also part of the alimentary canal and especially the intestine or stomach c. belly, abdomen d. catgut 2. plural the inner essential parts <the guts of a car> 3. a narrow passage; also a narrow waterway or small creek 4. the sac of silk taken from a silkworm ready to spin its cocoon and drawn out into a thread for use as a snell 5. plural fortitude and stamina in coping with what alarms, repels, or discourages ; courage, pluck 6. gut course II. transitive verb (gutted; gutting) Date: 14th century 1. a. eviscerate b. to extract all the essential passages or portions from 2. a. to destroy the inside of <fire gutted the building> b. to destroy the essential power or effectiveness of <inflation gutting the economy> III. adjective Date: 1964 1. arising from one's inmost self ; visceral <a gut reaction> 2. having strong impact or immediate relevance <gut issues>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 the lower alimentary canal or a part of this; the intestine. 2 (in pl.) the bowel or entrails, esp. of animals. 3 (in pl.) colloq. personal courage and determination; vigorous application and perseverance. 4 (in pl.) colloq. the belly as the source of appetite. 5 (in pl.) a the contents of anything, esp. representing substantiality. b the essence of a thing, e.g. of an issue or problem. 6 a material for violin or racket strings or surgical use made from the intestines of animals. b material for fishing-lines made from the silk-glands of silkworms. 7 a a narrow water-passage; a sound, straits. b a defile or narrow passage. 8 (attrib.) a instinctive (a gut reaction). b fundamental (a gut issue). --v.tr. (gutted, gutting) 1 remove or destroy (esp. by fire) the internal fittings of (a house etc.). 2 take out the guts of (a fish). 3 extract the essence of (a book etc.). Phrases and idioms: gut-rot colloq. 1 = rot-gut. 2 a stomach upset. hate a person's guts colloq. dislike a person intensely. sweat (or work) one's guts out colloq. work extremely hard. Etymology: OE guttas (pl.), prob. rel. to geotan pour

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gut Gut, n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to ge['o]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 C[AE]cum, n. (b) .

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gut Gut, v. 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 bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(guts, gutting, gutted) 1. A person's or animal's guts are all the organs inside them. By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts. N-PLURAL 2. When someone guts a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it. It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing. VERB: V n 3. The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested. N-SING: the/poss N 4. Guts is the will and courage to do something which is difficult or unpleasant, or which might have unpleasant results. (INFORMAL) The new Chancellor has the guts to push through unpopular tax increases... 5. A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason. Let's have your gut reaction to the facts as we know them. N-SING: usu N n 6. You can refer to someone's stomach as their gut, especially when it is very large and sticks out. (INFORMAL) His gut sagged out over his belt. N-COUNT: usu sing see also beer gut 7. To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain. Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived... A factory stands gutted and deserted. VERB: V n, V-ed 8. Gut is string made from part of the stomach of an animal. Traditionally, it is used to make the strings of sports rackets or musical instruments such as violins. 9. see also gutted 10. If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed. (INFORMAL) We hate each other's guts. PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis] 11. If you say that you are working your guts out or slogging your guts out, you are emphasizing that you are working as hard as you can. (INFORMAL) Most have worked their guts out and made sacrifices. PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Intestine. 2. Strait, narrow pass. II. v. a. Eviscerate, disembowel, embowel, paunch, take out the bowels of.

Moby Thesaurus

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