Dictionary: GORGE – GOS'HAWK

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GORGE, v.i.

To feed. Milton.

GORGE, v.t. [gorj.]

  1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. Hence,
  2. To glut; to fill the throat or stomach; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. Addison.

GORG'ED, a.

  1. Having a gorge or throat. Shak.
  2. In heraldry, bearing a crown or the like about the neck. Encyc.

GORG'ED, pp.

Swallowed; glutted.

GORG'EOUS, a.

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

GORG'EOUS-LY, adv.

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

GORG'EOUS-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 ornament 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 natural 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.

GOR'MAND-ISM, n.

Gluttonry.

GOR'MAND-IZE, v.i.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously. Shak.

GOR'MAND-IZ-ER, n.

A greedy, voracious eater. Cleaveland.

GOR'MAND-IZ-ING, ppr.

Eating greedily and voraciously.

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

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

GO'RY, 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 Falco, or hawk kind, larger than the common buzzard, but of a more slender shape. The general color of the plumage is a deep brown; the breast and belly white. Dict. Nat. Hist.