Definition of gulf

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Gulf (n.) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,.

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Margate Fish :: Margate fish () A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt..
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
Goatfish :: Goatfish (n.) A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet..
Devilfish :: Devilfish (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.
Bayou :: Bayou (n.) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind..
Engulfed :: Engulfed (imp. & p. p.) of Engul.
Head :: Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea..
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character..
Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..
Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow up, as in a gulf..
Engulfment :: Engulfment (n.) A swallowing up as if in a gulf.
Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..
Enwomb :: Enwomb (v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern..
Garookuh :: Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Sargassum :: Sargassum (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
Ingulfing :: Ingulfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingul.
Fiery :: Fiery (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance..
Jurel :: "Jurel (n.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel..
Ingulf :: Ingulf (v. t.) To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf..
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