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