gull

  • 11Gull — Gull, n. 1. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 12gull — Ⅰ. gull [1] ► NOUN ▪ a long winged seabird having white plumage with a grey or black back. ORIGIN Celtic. Ⅱ. gull [2] ► VERB ▪ fool or deceive (someone). ► NOU …

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  • 13gull — gull1 [gul] n. pl. gulls or gull [ME < Celt, as in Cornish gullan, Welsh gwylan, Bret gwelan] any of various shorebirds of a worldwide family (Laridae), with large wings, slender legs, webbed feet, a strong, hooked bill, and feathers of… …

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  • 14Güll — Güll, Friedrich Wilhelm, Kinderliederdichter, geb. 1. April 1812 in Ansbach, gest. 24. Dez. 1879 in München, bezog 1829 das Schullehrerseminar in Altdorf und wurde 1842 Lehrer an der protestantischen Pfarrschule zu München, wo er 1844 auch einen… …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 15Güll — Güll, Friedr. Wilh., Dichter, geb. 1. April 1812 in Ansbach, Lehrer an der prot. Schule in München, gest. das. 24. Dez. 1879, durch seine trefflichen Kinderlieder bekannt. – Biogr. von Gärtner (1890) …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 16gull — index deceive, delude, dupe, ensnare, foist, illude, inveigle Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 17gull — [gʌl] n [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: From a Celtic language.] a large common black and white sea bird that lives near the sea = ↑seagull …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 18gull — vb *dupe, befool, trick, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle Analogous words: delude, beguile, *deceive, mislead, double cross, betray …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 19gull|er|y — «GUHL uhr ee», noun, plural er|ies. a haunt or breeding place for gulls …

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  • 20Gull — Taxobox name = Gulls image width = 250px image caption = Black headed Gull regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes subordo = Lari familia = Laridae familia authority = Vigors, 1825 subdivision ranks = Genera… …

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