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nts by which the labors of the chemist are so much facilitated is constructed upon the same principle. Gun′wale. The upper planking covering the timber-heads round the ship. A piece of timber around the top side of a boat, and having rowlocks for the oars. Gur-glet. A porous earthen jar for cooling water. See ice-making machine. Gur′let. （Masonry, etc.) A pickaxe with one sharp point and one cutting-edge. Gur′mie. （Mining.) A level or working. See Gunnie. Gus′set. 1. An angle-iron or bracket stiffening the angle of a structure. 2. An angular piece of iron inserted in a boiler, tank, etc., where it changes from a cylindrical to a square form, etc., as in the junction of the barrel and fire-box of a locomotive. Gut. 1. Prepared sheep's entrails. See catgut. 2. The sac of silk taken from the silk-worm and stretched into a line for a snood. Gut′ta. One of the ornaments resembling drops, placed in the epistylium of the Dor