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A greedy eater; a glutton. [Obs.]

To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power. One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like from the electric blow of the gymnotus. De Quincey.

A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem. Heyse.

An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. "Hail, brave friend." Shak. All hail. See in the Vocabulary. -- Hail Mary, a form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.

To greet; to salute. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

int of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

, as by a harlequin's trick. And kitten,if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit. M. Green.

of a long, slender proboscis. The larvæ are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm. Tobacco Hawk Moth (Macrosila Carolina), and its Larva, the Tobacco Worm.

The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.

ndition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison. The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white- flame hea…

A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

s, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

onius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

ce of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. He descended into hell. Book of Common Prayer. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Ps. xvi. 10.

A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. Brewer.