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Gula   Listen
noun
gula, gulae  n.  (pl. L. gulae, E. gulas)  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
(b)
A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
2.
(Arch.) A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gula" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the 'Afraja' of Theodore Mugge, a story of life in Norway during the last century, and I remember it as a very lovely story indeed, with honest studies of character among the Norwegians, and a tender pathos in the fate of the little Lap heroine Gula, who was perhaps sufficiently romanced. The hero was a young Dane, who was going up among the fiords to seek his fortune in the northern fisheries; and by a process inevitable in youth I became identified with him, so that I adventured, ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... I have to tell thee the death of thy brother Eyvind, and he has left thee his heir at the Gula Thing, and now thy foes will seize thy heritage, unless thou ...
— The story of Burnt Njal - From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga • Anonymous

... somewhat vulgar and most frequent conception of this virtue (afterwards continually repeated, as by Sir Joshua in his window at New College) temperance is confused with mere abstinence, the opposite of Gula, or gluttony; whereas the Greek Temperance, a truly cardinal virtue, is the moderator of all the passions, and so represented by Giotto, who has placed a bridle upon her lips, and a sword in her hand, the hilt of which she is binding to the ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin

... dolis injustorum. Pent justitia; pax omnis violatur; infinita scandala suscitantur. Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur." It was not the charge of magic alone that brought Roger Bacon's works into discredit with the Church, and caused a nail to be driven through their covers to keep the dangerous ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various

... in store for all who can bring themselves in line to get it. Holding a dish right side up to catch the shower is the work for each one of us. How much I do think and hope for the three nieces now entering womanhood. For Susie B. Jr., and little Anna O. and Gula, I shall think and hope by and by. As for the nephews, I do not forget them, but they'll fight their way through somehow, as have all ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper



Words linked to "Gula" :   Semitic deity, gluttony, Eucinostomus gula



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