GARGOYLE, or GURGOYLE (from the Fr. gargouille, originally the

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• THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat or gullet, cf.

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• LAT

Lat. gurgulio,

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• GULA

gula, and similar words derived from

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root gar, to

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• SWALLOW (A. S. swalewe, Icel. svala, Du. zwaluw, Ger. Schwalbe)

swallow, the word representing the gurgling

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• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound of

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• WATER

water; Ital. doccia di grande; Ger. Ausguss)  , in architecture, the carved termination to a spout which conveys away the water from the gutters . Gargoyles are mostly grotesque figures . The term is applied more especially to medieval work, but throughout all ages some means of throwing the water oil the roofs, when not conveyed in gutters, has been adopted, and in Egypt there are gargoyles to eject the water used in the washing of the sacred vessels which would seem to have been done on the flat roofs of the temples . In Greek temples the water from the roof passed through the mouths of lions whose heads were carved or modelled in the marble or terra-cotta cymatium of the cornice . At Pompeii large numbers of terra-cotta gargoyles have been found which were modelled in the shape of various animals .