a Latin term for what in English we call drop.

Gutta Rosea, 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 distemper in which the patient, without out any apparent fault in the eye, is deprived of sight.

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