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e adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

om, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form. The gorgeous ceremonial of the Burgundian court. Prescott.

bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city. Blackstone When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law. Palfrey

Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.] To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.

A deep gorge; a gully.

Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.

To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [R.] Shelton.

, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton.

property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." Spenser. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth.

eldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak.

xtravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

ulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.