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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Glut \Glut\ (gl[u^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glutting}.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. ? to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. {Gluttion}, {Englut}.] 1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. [1913 Webster] Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. [1913 Webster] His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] {To glut the market}, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Glut \Glut\, v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. [1913 Webster] Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Glut \Glut\, n. 1. That which is swallowed. --Milton [1913 Webster] 2. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market. [1913 Webster] A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog. [1913 Webster] 4. (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.] (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. --Raymond. (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. --Knight. (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln. (e) A block used for a fulcrum. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zool.) The broad-nosed eel ({Anguilla latirostris}), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: glut n 1: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: {glut}, {oversupply}, {surfeit}] v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: {gorge}, {ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {glut}, {englut}, {stuff}, {engorge}, {overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize}, {gormandise}, {gourmandize}, {binge}, {pig out}, {satiate}, {scarf out}] 2: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: {flood}, {oversupply}, {glut}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: GLUT openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU) From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Glut /gluːt/ blaze; fervency; fervor; fervour