Part 4902

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A narrow passage or entrance</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A defile between mountains</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with <i>rear</i>. See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Bastion</er>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.</def>

<blockquote>And all the way, most like a brutish beast,< e spewed up his <b>gorge</b>, that all did him detest. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; <as>as, an ice <ex>gorge</ex> in a river</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A concave molding; a cavetto.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The groove of a pulley.</def>

<cs><col>Gorge circle</col> <fld>(Gearing)</fld>, <cd>the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.</cd> -- <col>Gorge hook</col>, <cd>two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. <i>Knight</i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gorge</h1> <Xpage=639>

<hw>Gorge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gorged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gorging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>gorger</ets>. See <er>Gorge</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.</def>

<blockquote>The fish has <b>gorged</b> the hook. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.</def>

<blockquote>The giant <b>gorged</b> with flesh. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Gorge</b> with my blood thy barbarous appetite. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gorge</h1> <Xpage=639>

<hw>Gorge</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To eat greedily and to satiety.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Gorged</h1> <Xpage=639>

<hw>Gorged</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having a gorge or throat.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Glutted; fed to the full.</def>

<h1>Gorgelet</h1> <Xpage=639>

<hw>Gor"ge*let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small gorget, as of a humming bird.</def>

<h1>Gorgeous</h1> <Xpage=639>

<hw>Gor"geous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>gorgias</ets> beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. <ets>gorgias</ets> ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. <ets>gorge</ets> throat, and <ets>se pengorger</ets> to assume airs. Cf. <er>Gorge</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.</def>

<blockquote>Cloud-land, <b>gorgeous</b> land. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Gogeous</b> as the sun at midsummer. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Gor"geous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Gor"geous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>