the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.
n. A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Broth of boiled meat strained.
n. In architecture: A gutter in a roof. Any channel or groove in which an accessory, as a side scene in a theater, is to run.
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n. a gutter in a roof
Word Usage
"I care not, though, like Anacharsis, I were pounded to death in a mortar: and yet that death were fitter for usurers, gold and themselves to be beaten together, to make a most cordial cullis for the devil."