Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EN-GLUT' – EN-GRIEVE
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EN-GLUT', v.t. [Fr. engloutir; L. glutio.]
- To swallow. Shak.
- To fill; to glut. Spenser. Ascham. [This word is little used. See Glut.]
EN-GLUT'TED, pp.
Glutted; filled.
EN-GLUT'TING, ppr.
Glutting.
EN-GORE, v.t.
To pierce; to gore. [See Gore.] Spenser.
EN-GORGE, v.i. [engorj'.]
To devour; to feed with eagerness or voracity. Milton.
EN-GORGE, v.t. [engorj'. Fr. engorger, from gorge, the throat.]
To swallow; to devour; to gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness, or in large quantities. Spenser.
EN-GORG'ED, pp.
Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
EN-GORGE-MENT, n. [engorj'ment.]
The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity.
EN-GORG'ING, ppr.
Swallowing with voracity.
EN-GRAFT', v.t.
To ingraft – which see.
EN-GRAIL, v.t. [Fr. engrêler, from grêle, gresle, hail.]
In heraldry, to variegate; to spot as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail; to indent in curve lines. Johnson. Chapman. Encyc.
EN-GRAIL-ED, pp.
Variegated; spotted.
EN-GRAIN, v.t. [from grain.]
To dye in grain, or in the raw material; to dye deep.
EN-GRAIN-ED, pp.
Dyed in the grain; as, engrained carpet.
EN-GRAIN-ING, ppr.
Dyeing in the grain.
EN-GRAP'PLE, v.t. [from grapple.]
To grapple; to seize and hold; to close in and hold fast. [See Grapple, which is generally used.]
EN-GRASP', v.t. [from grasp.]
To seize with a clasping hold; to hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. [See Grasp, which is generally used.]
EN-GRAVE, v.t. [pret. engraved; pp. engraved or engraven. Fr. graver; Sp. grabar; It. graffiare; W. cravu; G. graben; D. graaven; Gr. γραφω. See Grave. Literally, to scratch or scrape. Hence,]
- To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal; to mark by incisions. Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii.
- To picture or represent by incisions.
- To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix. Let the laws of God and the principles of morality be engraved on the mind in early years.
- To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. [Not now used.] Spenser.
EN-GRAV-ED, or EN-GRAV-EN, pp.
Cut or marked, as with a chisel or graver; imprinted; deeply impressed.
EN-GRAVE-MENT, n.
Engraved work; act of engraving.
EN-GRAV-ER, n.
One who engraves; a cutter of letters, figures or devices, on stone, metal or wood; a sculptor; a carver.
EN-GRAV-ER-Y, n.
The work of an engraver. [Little used.]
EN-GRAV-ING, n.
The act or art of cutting stones, metals, and other hard substances, and representing thereon figures, letters, characters and devices; a branch of sculpture.
EN-GRAV-ING, ppr.
Cutting or marking stones or metals, with a chisel or graver; imprinting.
EN-GRIEVE, v.t.
To grieve; to pain. [See Grieve.] Spenser.