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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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20 words match “GREEDILY”

GREEDILY n.
, adv. In a greedy manner.
AVIDIOUSLY adv.
Eagerly; greedily.
BOOZE v.
To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.
CHOMP v.
To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.
CHOP v.
To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.] Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.
DEVOUR v.
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. Spenser.
ENGORGEMENT n.
The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
GAIN v.
interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezek. xxii. 12. Gaining twist, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle. To gain on or upon. (a) To encroach on; as, the oce…
GOBBET v.
To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low] L'Estrange.
GOBBLE v. 2 definitions
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.
GORGE v.
To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.
GORMANDIZE v.
To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.
GULCH v.
To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]
GUTTLE v.
To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.
GUZZLE v. 2 definitions
To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.
INGURGITATE v.
To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle. Cleveland.
INGURGITATION n.
The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed. E. Darwin. He drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine. Bacon.
LURCH v.
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.] Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.
RAVENING a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.
SWILL v. 2 definitions
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.