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Gula   /gjˈulə/   Listen
Gula

noun
(pl. L. gulae, E. gulas)
1.
The Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
2.
Eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: gluttony, overeating.



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"Gula" Quotes from Famous Books



... tea, how many were the strange things displayed to them! Teapot, teacups, teaspoons, were all more or less curious in their eyes; tea, sugar, biscuit, and butter, were articles of human consumption seen by many of them for the first time. One asks if that whitish powder is "gula passir" (sand-sugar), so called to distinguish it from the coarse lump palm-sugar or molasses of native manufacture; and the biscuit is considered a sort of European sago-cake, which the inhabitants of those remote regions are obliged to use in the absence of the genuine article. My pursuit, ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... most probably perceived by those numerous ramifications of nerves that are seen about the upper opening of the stomach; and thirst by the nerves about the fauces, and the top of the gula. The ideas of these senses are few in the generality of mankind, but are more numerous in those, who by disease, or indulgence, desire particular kinds of ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... in the membranous parts of the system, as of the rectum intestinum, the urethra, the gula or throat; and of this kind is the verucca or wart, and the clavus pedum, or corns on the toes. A wen sometimes arises on the back of the neck, and sometimes between the shoulders; and by distending the tendinous fascia produces great and ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... their own feet. There is plenty of good in store for all who can bring themselves in line to get it. Holding a dish right side up to catch the shower is the work for each one of us. How much I do think and hope for the three nieces now entering womanhood. For Susie B. Jr., and little Anna O. and Gula, I shall think and hope by and by. As for the nephews, I do not forget them, but they'll fight their way through somehow, as ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper



Words linked to "Gula" :   Babylon, mortal sin, deadly sin, Semitic deity, gluttony



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