GUTTER LANE. The throat, the swallow, the red lane.
See RED LANE.
GUTTING A QUART POT. Taking out the lining of it: i. e.
drinking it off. Gutting an oyster; eating it. Gutting a
house; clearing it of its furniture. See POULTERER.
GUY. A dark lanthorn: an allusion to Guy Faux, the principal
actor in the gunpowder plot. Stow the guy: conceal the
lanthorn.
GUZZLE. Liquor. To guzzle; to drink greedily.
GUZZLE GUTS. One greedy of liquor.
GYBE, or JYBE. Any writing or pass with a seal.
GYBING. Jeering or ridiculing.
GYLES, or GILES. Hopping Giles; a nick name for a lame
person: St. Giles was the tutelar saint of cripples.
GYP. A college runner or errand-boy at Cambridge, called
at Oxford a scout. See SCOUT.
GYPSIES. A set of vagrants, who, to the great disgrace of our police, are suffered to wander about the country. They pretend that they derive their origin from the ancient Egyptians, who were famous for their knowledge in astronomy and other sciences; and, under the pretence of fortune-telling, find means to rob or defraud the ignorant and superstitious. To colour their impostures, they artificially discolour their faces, and speak a kind of gibberish peculiar to themselves. They rove up and down the country in large companies, to the great terror of the farmers, from whose geese, turkeys, and fowls, they take very considerable contributions.