Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GORGEOUS, a.

Showy; fine; splendid; glittering with gay colors. With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway. Dryden. A gorgeous robe. Luke xxiii.

GORGEOUS-LY, adv.

With showy magnificence; splendidly finely. The prince was gorgeously arrayed.

GORGEOUS-NESS, n.

Show of dress or ornament; splendor of raiment.

GORG'ET, n. [Fr. gorgette, from gorge.]

1. A piece of armor for defending the throat or neck; a kind of breast-plate like a half-moon; also, a small convex armament worn by officers on the breast. Encyc. Chalmers.
2. Formerly, a ruff worn by females.
3. In surgery, gorget, or gorgeret, is a cutting instrument used in lithotomy; also, a concave or cannulated conductor, called a blunt gorget. Cyc. Encyc.

GORG'ING, ppr.

Swallowing; eating greedily; glutting.

GORG'ON, a.

Like a gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a gorgon face. Dryden.

GORG'ON, n. [Gr.]

1. A fabled monster of terrific aspect, the sight of which turned the beholder to stone. The poets represent the Gorgons as three sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa; but authors are not agreed in the description of them.
2. Any thing very ugly or horrid. Milton.

GOR-GON'E-AN, or GOR-GO'NI-AN, a.

Like a gorgon; pertaining to gorgons. Milton.

GOR-GO-NE'IA, n.

In architectural sculpture, masks carved in imitation of the gorgon s or Medusa's head; used as keystones. Elmes.

GOR-GO'NI-A, n.

A genus of flexible arborescent corals. Mantell. Gorgonia nobilis, in nalural history, red coral. Ure.

GOR'-HEN, n.

The female of the gor-cock.

GOR-ING, n.

A pricking; puncture. Dryden.

GOR-ING, ppr. [from gore.]

Stabbing; piercing.

GOR'MAND, or GOR'MAND-ER, n. [Fr. gourmand, from W. gormant, plenitude, exuberance; gor, extreme; gormoz, excess.]

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton.

GORMAND-ISM, n.

Gluttonry.

GOR'MAND-IZE, v.i.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously. Shak.

GORMAND-IZ-ER, n.

A greedy, voracious eater. Cleaveland.

GORMAND-IZ-ING, ppr.

Eating greedily and voraciously.

GORSE, or GORSS, n. gors. [Sax. gorst. Qu. coarse, L. crania, or' G. kratzen, to scratch.]

Furz, or whin. a thick prickly shrub of the genus Ulex, bearing yellow Rowers in winter. Johnson.

GORY, a. [from gore.]

1. Covered with congealed or clotted blood; as, gory locks. Shak.
2. Bloody; murderous. Shak.

GOS'HAWK, n. [Sax. goshafoc, goosehawk.]

A voracious fowl of the genus Fulco, or hawk kind, larger than the common buzzard, but of a more slender shape. The general color of the plumage is u deep brown; the breast and belly white. Dict. Nat. Hist.

GOS'LING, n. [Sax. gos, goose, and ling.]

1. A young goose; a goose not full grown.
2. A catkin on nut trees and pines. Bailey. Johnson.

GOSPEL, n. [Sax. godspell; god, good, and spell, history, relation, narratton, word, speech. that which is uttered, announced, sent or communicated; answering to the Gr. {foreign}, L. evangelium, a good or joyful message.]

1. The history of the birth, life, actions, death, resurrection, ascension and doctrines of Jesus Christ; or a revelation of the grace of God to fallen man through a mediator, including the character, actions, and doctrines of Christ, with the whole scheme of salvation, as revealed by Christi and his apostles. This Gospel is said to have been preached to Abraham, by the promise, " in thee shall all nations be blessed." Gal iii. 8. It is called the gospel of God. Rom. i. 1. It is called the gospel of Christ. Rom. i. 16. It is called the gospel of salvation. Eph. i. 13.
2. God's word. Hammond.
3. Divinity; theology. Milton.
4. Any general doctrine. Burke.

GOSPEL, v.t.

To instruct in the Gospel; or to fill with sentiments of religion. Shak.

GOS'PEL-ED, pp.

Evangelized; instructed in the Gospel