n. (Zool.) The European bullfinch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. cho`ndros cartilage. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A colorless, amorphous, mucopolysaccharide having N-acetyl chondrosine as the repeating unit with one sulfate group per disaccharide. Typical preparations have a molecular weight of about 50, 000. Preparations are sold over-the-counter, often referred to as chondroitin, with the putative ability to relieve pain in joints and assist joint cartilage growth or regeneration; such claims are, as of 2001, yet unproven. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engulfed p. pr. & vb. n. Engulfing. ] [ Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf. Ingulf. ] To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. [ 1913 Webster ]

It quite engulfs all human thought. Young.

Syn. -- See Absorb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fulfilled p. pr. & vb. n. Fulfilling. ] [ OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full + fyllan to fill. See Full, a., and Fill, v. t. ] [ Written also fulfil. ] 1. To fill up; to make full or complete. [ Obs. ] “Fulfill her week” Gen. xxix. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him. Ps. cxlv. 199. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fulfills. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also fulfilment. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko`lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko`lfos. ] 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, [ 1913 Webster ]

He then surveyed
Hell and the gulf between. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. Luke xvi. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which swallows; the gullet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geog.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic. It originates in the westward equatorial current, due to the trade winds, is deflected northward by Cape St. Roque through the Gulf of Mexico, and flows parallel to the coast of North America, turning eastward off the island of Nantucket. Its average rate of flow is said to be about two miles an hour. The similar Japan current, or Kuro-Siwo, is sometimes called the Gulf Stream of the Pacific. --
Gulf weed (Bot.), a branching seaweed (Sargassum bacciferum, or sea grape), having numerous berrylike air vessels, -- found in the Gulf Stream, in the Sargasso Sea, and elsewhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A brown seaweed (Sargassum bacciferum) with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.
Syn. -- sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Full of whirlpools or gulfs. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ingulfed p. pr. & vb. n. Ingulfing. ] [ Cf. Engulf. ] [ Written also engulf. ] To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. [ 1913 Webster ]

A river large . . .
Passed underneath ingulfed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of ingulfing, or the state of being ingulfed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect or failure to fulfill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So named after F. X. Wulfen, an Australian mineralogist. ] (Min.) Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore. [ 1913 Webster ]