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Fig.: One who gluts himself. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.

Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.

To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. Hallywell.

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

ess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

der the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20.

iquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

Gluttonous; voracious. Pope.

Gluttony.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

tc. (b) The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc. -- Grand paunch, a glutton or gourmand. [Obs.] Holland. -- Grand pensionary. See under Pensionary. -- Grand piano (Mus.), a large piano, usually harp-shaped, in which the wires or strings are generally triplicated, increasing the power, and all th…

A glutton. [Low] Todd.

o feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. (b) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

A glutton. [Obs.] B. Jonson.