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Covered with gore or clotted blood. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak.

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.…

A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

See Phantasmagoria.

y, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*…

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.

m.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.

Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.

Of or pertaining to a category.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

The chief singer of the chantry. J. Gregory.

g or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round. J. Gregory.

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency." J. Gregory.