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GUTTA

Volume 11 · 58 words · 1842 Edition

a Latin term for what in English we call drop.

Gutta Serena, a disease in which the patient, without any apparent fault in the eye, is deprived of sight.

Architecture, an ornament in the form of a little cone, used in the Doric corniche, or on the architrave underneath the triglyphs, representing a sort of drop or bell.