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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.

pus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

A greedy eater; a glutton. [Obs.]

An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

See Semiglutin.

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.

symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. [Written also hydro…

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

th variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

Gluttonous. [Obs.] Blount.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

; 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.]

a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain. -- Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body. -- Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.

To fill with, or as with, marrow of fat; to glut.

bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.