1633. Ile of Guls. Upon you both, so, so, so, how greedily their inventions like beagles follow the sent of their owne gullery, yet these are no fooles, God forbid, not they. 1633. Marmion, Fine Companion. Lit. What more gulleries yet? they have cosend mee of my daughters, I hope they will cheate me of my wife too: have you any more of these tricks to shew, ha? 1689. Selden, Table Talk, p. 38 (Arber’s ed.). And how can it be proved, that ever any man reveal’d Confession, when there is no Witness? And no man can be Witness in his own cause. A meer gullery. 1819. H. More, Defence of Moral Cabbala, ch. iii. The sweet deception and gullery of their own corrupted fancy. 1821. Scott, Kenilworth, ch. xx. Do you think, because I have good-naturedly purchased your trumpery goods at your roguish prices, that you may put any gullery you will on me? Gullet, subs. (old: now recognised).—The throat. For synonyms, see Gutter-alley. 1383. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 12, 477. [Quoted in Ency. Dict.] Out of the harde bones knocken they The mary, for they casten nought away, That may go thurgh the gullet soft and sote. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Gullet, s.v. A Derisory Term for the Throat, from Gula. 1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. 15. So he puts a pistol to his mouth, and he fires it down his gullet. 1893. National Observer, x. 168. Through sympathetic gullets. Gull-finch, subs. (old).—A simpleton; a fool. For synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage-head. 1630. Taylor, Works. For ’tis concluded ’mongst the wizards all, To make thee master of Gul-finches hall. Gull-groper, subs. (old).—A gamesters’ money-lender. 1609. Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-light. The gul-groper is commonly an old mony-monger, who having travaild through all the follyes of the world in his youth, knowes them well, and shunnes them in his age, his whole felicitie being to fill his bags with golde and silver. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. Gull-groper, s.v. A Bystander that Lends Money to the Gamesters. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Gully, subs. (common).—1. The throat. For synonyms, see Gutter-alley. 2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. 3. (old and Scots’).—A knife. For synonyms, see Chive. 1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, bk. I., ch. xxvii. Fair gullies which are little haulch-backed demi-knives. 1785. Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook. I red ye weel, tak care o’ skaith, See, there’s a gully. 1789. Burns, Address to Captain Grose. The knife that nickit Abel’s craig, He’ll prove ye fully It was a faulding jocteleg, Or lang-kail gully. Verb (common).—To gull (q.v.); to dupe; to swindle. For synonyms, see Stick. 1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, bk. III., ch. v. I rode about and speechified, and everybody gullied.