Definition for GLUT

GLUT, v.i. [L. glutio; Fr. engloutir; Russ. glotayu, to swallow; W. glwth, a glutton; glythu, to gormandize; from llwth, a swallow, greediness; It. ghiotto, Low L. gluto, a glutton; Heb. Ch. לעט. (See Ar. غََلَطَ.) Class Ld, No. 17. The sense is to crowd, to stuff.]

  1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge. Milton.
  2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites. Denham.
  3. To feast or delight even to satiety. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden.
  4. To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market.
  5. To saturate. Boyle.

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