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The throat; the gullet. [Obs.] Throats so wide and gules so gluttonous. Gauden.

A glutton. [Obs.]

A grooved iron rail or tram plate. [Eng.] Gully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

A greedy eater; a glutton. [Obs.]

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. -- Hog"gish*ly, adv. -- Hog"gish*ness, n. Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes Shaftesbury.

Gluttonous. [Obs.] Blount.

; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton." Bp. Hall.

Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]

A glutton; a gormandizer. [Obs.]

subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang]

To feed gluttonously; to cram. Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. Swift.

One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.

itting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton. -- Swin"ish*ly, adv. -- Swin"ish*ness, n.

Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.

Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous. [Obs.] Joye.

The glutton.

part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." Piers Plowman. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. Shak. Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. Locke.