gorg

v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gorged p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging ] [ F. gorger. See Gorge, n. ] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The giant gorged with flesh. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a gorge or throat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Glutted; fed to the full. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge, n. ] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak.

-- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. gorge neck. ] (Arch.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n. ] 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unfix the gorget's iron clasp. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A ruff worn by women. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Surg.) (a) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. (b) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorget hummer (Zool.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Gorgo, -onis, Gr. Gorgw`, fr. gorgo`s terrible. ] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything very ugly or horrid. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu. [ 1913 Webster ]