Search the Dictionary

roat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.

Having a gorge or throat.

A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n.

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.

and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor. Unfix the gorget's iron clasp. Sir W. Scott.

Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.

Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.

from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden.

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.

To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

See Engorge. Milton.

To gorge to excess.

To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.

Having a throat which produces a shrill note. [R.] Shak.

To dress or clothe; to attire. They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

pernicious influence; destructive. "Baleful enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.