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a. [ Gr. &unr_; predicate. See Category. ] (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make bloody. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW. gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf. Icel. görn, garnir, guts. ] 1. Dirt; mud. [ Obs. ] Bp. Fisher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gore, gare, AS. g&unr_;ra angular point of land, fr. g&unr_;r spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad. Cf. Gar, n., Garlic, and Gore, v. ] 1. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small traingular piece of land. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tenné. Like the other abatements it is a modern fancy and not actually used. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gored p. pr. & vb. n. Goring. ] [ OE. gar spear, AS. g&unr_;r. See 2d Gore. ] To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. [ 1913 Webster ]

The low stumps shall gore
His daintly feet. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 2d gore + bill. ] (Zool.) The garfish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; Pylæ, or Thermopylæ, where the Amphictyonic council met + &unr_; to assemble: cf. F. pylagore. ] (Gr. Antiq.) a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Pythagoreus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a plane right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described upon the other two sides. --
Pythagorean system (Astron.), the commonly received system of astronomy, first taught by Pythagoras, and afterward revived by Copernicus, whence it is also called the Copernican system. --
Pythagorean letter. See Y. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of philosophers founded by Pythagoras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [ B. C. ]. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; sy`n with + &unr_; a predicate. See Syn-, and Categorematic. ] (Logic) Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To gore underneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- + gore blood. ] Not stained with gore; not bloodied. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]