a Latin term for what in English we call drop.

Gutta Rofacea, in medicine, denotes a red or pimpled face; a distemper which, though not always owing its original to hard drinking, is nevertheless most incident to tipplers of strong beer, wines, spirits, &c.

Gutta Serena, a disease in which the patient, without any apparent fault in the eye, is deprived of sight. See (Index subjoined to) Medicine.

architecture, are ornaments in the form of little cones used in the Doric cornices, or on the architrave underneath the triglyphs, representing a sort of drops or bells.