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  • English Word Gored Definition of Gore
  • English Word Gorflies Definition of Gorfly
  • English Word Gorfly Definition A dung fly.
  • English Word Gorge Definition The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
  • English Word Gorge Definition A narrow passage or entrance
  • English Word Gorge Definition A defile between mountains.
  • English Word Gorge Definition The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • English Word Gorge Definition That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • English Word Gorge Definition A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
  • English Word Gorge Definition A concave molding; a cavetto.
  • English Word Gorge Definition The groove of a pulley.
  • English Word Gorge Definition To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • English Word Gorge Definition To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • English Word Gorge Definition To eat greedily and to satiety.
  • English Word Gorged Definition of Gorge
  • English Word Gorged Definition Having a gorge or throat.
  • English Word Gorged Definition Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
  • English Word Gorged Definition Glutted; fed to the full.
  • English Word Gorgelet Definition A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
  • English Word Gorgeous Definition Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
  • English Word Gorgerin Definition 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.
  • English Word Gorget Definition 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.
  • English Word Gorget Definition A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
  • English Word Gorget Definition 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.
  • English Word Gorget Definition A ruff worn by women.
  • English Word Gorget Definition A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  • English Word Gorget Definition A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
  • English Word Gorget Definition A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
  • English Word Gorging Definition of Gorge
  • English Word Gorgon Definition 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.