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33 words match “GORE”

GORE v. 7 definitions

a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. Coleridge.

The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]

To besmear with gore.

CATEGOREMATIC a.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

ENGORE v. 2 definitions

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

PYTHAGOREAN a. 2 definitions

ek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a plane ri…

PYTHAGOREANISM n.

The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

SYNCATEGOREMATIC a.

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

To gore underneath.

UNGORED a. 2 definitions

Not stained with gore; not bloodied. Sylvester.

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

To cover as with breeches. [Poetic] Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Shak.

To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher.

coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

er of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.

bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

uropean marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.

or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.