Definition of gulf

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Gulf (n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico..

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Bothnic :: Bothnic (a.) Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic 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..
Acheron :: Acheron (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf..
Zeuglodon :: Zeuglodon (n.) A genus of extinct Eocene whales, remains of which have been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia..
Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow up, as in a gulf..
Fall :: Fall (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice..
Ingulf :: Ingulf (v. t.) To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf..
Ingulfed :: Ingulfed (imp. & p. p.) of Ingul.
Engulf :: Engulf (v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly..
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..
Whelm :: Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs..
Garookuh :: Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Engulfing :: Engulfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engul.
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
Gulph :: Gulph (n.) See Gulf.
Bay :: Bay (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character..
Sargassum :: Sargassum (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
Enwomb :: Enwomb (v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern..
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