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GUTTA TRAP

Volume 11 · 93 words · 1860 Edition

a substance evidently allied to gutta percha and caoutchouc, employed at Singapore in the manufacture of bird-lime. It is the insipidated juice of an artocarpus; and it is highly probable that there are several similar vegetable productions, such as the mangegatu (Fiens indica), from Visagapatam, which might advantageously be introduced into commerce, and employed in the arts for purposes similar to those for which caoutchouc and gutta percha are now so extensively employed.

GUTTÉ, in Architecture, little conical-shaped ornaments, somewhat resembling drops; used in the Doric entablature, immediately under the triglyph and mutule.