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n. [ Cf. F. demi- gorge. ] (Fort.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ First mentioned by Lutatius, or Lactantius Placidus, the scholiast on Statius, perh. fr. Gr. dai`mwn god, deity + gorgo`s fierce, terrible ] A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name
Of Demogorgon. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disgorged p. pr. & vb. n. Disgorging. ] [ F. dégorger, earlier desgorger; pref. dé-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See Gorge. ] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

They loudly laughed
To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
Into the sea. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dégorgement. ] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engorged p. pr. & vb. n. Engorging ] [ Pref. en- + gorge: cf. F. engorger to obstruct, cram. ] 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. engorgement. ] 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g&rsdot_; to devour. Cf. Gorget. ] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Angling) A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. --
Circle of the gorge (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis. --
Gorge fishing, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge. --
Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight. [ 1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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 ]

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

a. Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Gorgoniacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Gorgonian, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Gorgoneia [ NL., fr. Gr. Gorgo`neios, equiv. to Gorgei^os belonging to a Gorgon. ] (Arch.) A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a coral which hardens in the air. ] (Zool.) 1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any slender branched gorgonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Gorgonia. ] (Zool.) One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cœnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cœnenchyma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Gorgoneus. ] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Gorgoniacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & i. See Engorge. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To gorge to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. regorder; re- + gorger to gorge. Cf. Regurgitate. ] 1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swallow again; to swallow back. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a throat which produces a shrill note. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]