n. See Aglet. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give the color of gules to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The throat; the gullet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Throats so wide and gules so gluttonous. Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. goules, F. gueules, the same word as gueule throat, OF. gole, goule, L. gula. So named from the red color of the throat. See Gullet, and cf. Gula. ] (Her.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain
In which two swords he bore; his word,
“Divide and reign.” P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

Follow thy drum;
With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. leguleius pettifogger, fr. lex, legis, law. ] Lawyerlike; legal. [ R. ] “Leguleian barbarism.” De Quincey. -- n. A lawyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ligula, lingula, little tongue, dim of lingua tongue : cf. F. ligule. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass. (b) A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. raguer to chafe, fret, rub, or E. rag. ] (Her.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ungula a claw. ] (Her.) Hoofed, or bearing hoofs; -- used only when these are of a tincture different from the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of virga. See Verge a rod. ] A comma. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a caesura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]