Grordonia 
tamaha river, Georgia, is now known only in cultivation. 
gore 1 (gor), M. [< ME. yore, gorre, mud, filth, < 
lne g"i8h. 
2578 
. [Not found in ME. or 
ult. AS. gar, a spear, + bill 1 .'] 
[Local, Eng.] 
AS. gor, dung, dirt, = OHG. MHG. gor, mud, = gored (gord), a. In her. : (a) Composed of con- 
Icel. Norw. ODan. gor, gore, the cud in animals, vex curves larger than in invected. (6) Bound- 
the chyme in men, = Sw. yon; dirt, matter, ed bv a line as in (<*) Also goared, gore, gory. 
pus, Sw. dial, gdr, dirt, the contents of the in- ' ~ Fesl l e g 9 red v ? ame f/T <"">"* See / 
testines (cf. D. goor, dirty, nasty, rusty, sour, gre-strake (gor strak), n Aaut., a strake 
etc.); prob. akin to Icel. giirn, pi! garnar, gar- whlch doe8 not reach as far as the stern or 
gorger 
He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him 
bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and Habby 
cheeks. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, i. 
That old man, now lord of the broad estate and the Hall, 
Dropt on" gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and 
drain 0. Tennyson, Maud, i. 5. 
II. in trans. To feed greedily ; stuff one's self. 
He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall 
Hold o'er the dead their carnival, 
Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb. 
from the body ; thick or clotted blood. 
They will be all on a gore of blood, most sad and griev- 
ous to behold. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 175. 
Altars grew marble then, and reek'd with gore. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 264. 
gore 2 (gor), . [Formerly also goar; = Sc. 
gair, gare, < ME. gore, gare, a gore of cloth, also 
a garment, < AS. gara, a projecting point of 
land, = OFries. gare, a gore of cloth, a gar- 
ment, = D. geer, a gusset, gore, = MLG. gere, 
a point of land, a gusset, = OHG. gero, M'HG. 
gere, a wedge-shaped piece of cloth, a promon- 
tory, G. gehre, a wedge, a gusset, gore, = Icel. 
geiri = Norw. geire = ODan. gere, a gore of cloth 
or of land, < AS. gdr, etc., a spear: see gar*-; cf. 
Sp. Pg. gorja = It. 
gullet (ML. gorgia, 
year. 
gorge-curtain (g6rj'ker"tan), n. In fort., the 
defensive wall of a gorge' or entrance, as be- 
" a bastion, redoubt, etc. See 
let; Skt. gargara, a whirlpool, a redupl. form 
< V gar, swallow. Cf . gargle 1 , gargoyle, gurgle, 
etc.] 1. The throat; the gullet. 
He with him closd, and, having mightie hold 
Upon his throte, did gripe his goiye so fast, 
That wanting breath him downe to ground he cast. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. iv. 22. 
They haue certaine Sea-Crowes or Cormorants, where- 
with they fish, tying their gorges that they cannot swallow 
the fishes which they take. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 437. 
The golden gorge of dragons spouted forth 
A flood of fountain-foam. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
u, X a** yl*/ , Cly^., Hi opcal . BCC ylll * , Ul. __ _ 
gar 2 , .] 1. A relatively long and narrow tri- Hence 2. That which is swallowed or is pro- 
angular strip or slip ; a projecting point. Specif- vlded for swallowing ; the material of a meal, 
ically 2. A triangular piece or tapering strip 
of land. A gore is often a small tract which, commonly 
by error in description of the boundaries or in their loca- 
tion in surveying, fails to be included in the possession, 
maps, or muniments of two or more tracts, or either of 
them, which would otherwise be adjacent. Gores may also 
be produced by various other exigencies in the surveying 
The blindages over the casemates of the gorge-curtain 
(were] splintered and shivered. 
New York Tribune, April 19, 1862. 
gorged (gorjd), a. 1. Having a gorge or throat ; 
throated. [Rare.] 
From the dread summit of this chalky bourn 
Look up a-height; the sMll-gorg'd lark so far 
Cannot be seen or heard. Shale., Lear, iv. 6. 
2. In her., bearing something around its neck ; 
especially and more accurately, having a crown 
or coronet round its neck : as, a swan ducally 
gorged. Also collared. 3. Glutted; over-fed; 
stuffed. 
As the full-fed hound or gorged hawk, 
What though 1 because the Vulture had then but small Unapt for tender smell or speedy flight, 
pickings, shall we therefore go and fling them a full gurin- > Make slow pursuit. Shak. , Lucrece, 1. 694. 
lOto*. Apology for Smectymnuus. gor _ hook (g6rj'huk), n. A leaded fish-hook 
d. lne act of gorging; inordinate eating; a with two barbs, to the upper end of which a 
heavy meal: as, to indulge lin a gorge after long twisted wire is fastened. The small end of the wire 
abstinence. [Colloq.] 4. A jam; a mass is run Into the mouth and through the whole body of the 
the throat. 
So insolent and mutinous a request would have been 
enough to have roused theyorge of the tranquil Van Twil- 
ler himself. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 443. 
6. In arch.: (a) The narrow part of the Tuscan 
and Roman Doric capitals, between the astra- 
gal above the shaft of the column and the echi- 
nus ; the necking or hypophyge. It is found also 
in some provincial Greek Doric, as at Pajstum. 
See cut under column, (b) A cavetto or hollow 
molding. 7. A narrow passage between steep 
rocky walls ; a ravine or defile with precipitous 
sides. 
Downward from his mountain gorge 
Stept the long-hair'd long-bearded solitary. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
8. The entrance into a bastion or other out- 
work of a fort. See cut under bastion. 9. In 
masonry, a little channel or up-cut on the lower 
side of the coping, to keep the drip from reach- 
ing the wall ; a throat. 10. The groove in the 
circumference of a pulley. llf. A pitcher of 
earthenware or stoneware. Also george. 
In the year 1684 Mr. John Dwight established a manu- 
factory of earthenware known under the name of white 
gorges. 
The exquisite gorgelets ... of humming-birds. 
Couet, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 99. 
gorgeous (g&r'jus), a. [Formerly also gorgi- 
ous; with accom. term. -eoits,<.OF.gorgias, goiir- 
gias, gorgeous, gaudy, flaunting, gallant, gay, 
fine ; appar. from or connected with gorgias, a 
gorget, a ruff for the neck, < gorge, the throat, 
or division of land, as the diagonal crossing of streets in a which chokes up a passage : as, a gorge of logs minnow used as bait, which is worked along the hook un- 
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city, the divisional lines or variations of soil on a farm, etc. 
I wasn't born in any town whatever, but in what New 
Englanders call a gore, a triangular strip of land that gets 
left out somehow when the towns are surveyed. 
O. W. Sears, Forest Runes, p. vii. 
Corners of the fields which, from their shape, could not 
be cut up into the usual acre or half-acre strips, were 
sometimes divided into tapering strips pointed at one end, 
and called "gores" or "gored acres." 
Seebohm, Eng. Vil. Community, p. 6. 
3. In Maine and Vermont, and formerly in 
Massachusetts, an unorganized and thinly set- 
tled subdivision of a county. 4. A triangular 
piece or strip of material inserted to make 
something, as a garment or a sail, wider in one 
part than in another; especially, in dressmak- 
ing, a long triangle introduced to make a skirt 
wider at the bottom or hem than at the waist. 
See goring. 
The balloon shall consist of a specific number of gores, 
or sections. Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 138. 
5f. A part of the dress ; hence, the dress itself ; 
a garment. 
An elf-queene shal my lemman be. 
And slepe under my goore. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 78. 
6. An angular plank used in fitting a vessel's 
skin to the frames. 7.- In her., a charge con- 
sisting of two curved lines, one from the sinis- 
ter chief point, the other from the base middle 
point, meeting in an acute angle in the middle 
of the fesse-point. Also called gusset. Under 
goret, under the clothing ; inwardly. 
Geynest under gore [ = fairest of form), 
lierkne to my roun. 
Alixniin (Lyric Songs), 1. 37. 
Glad under gore. Wright, Lyric Poetry, p. 26. 
gore 2 (gor), v. t. ; pret. and pp. gored, ppr. gor- 
ing. [< gore 2 , >.] 1. To shape like a gore ; cut 
or treat so as to form a gore. 2. To furnish 
with a gore or gores, as a dress-skirt or a sail. 
gore 3 (gor), i: t. ; pret. and pp. gored, ppr. gor- 
ing. [Not found in ME. or AS., and perhaps 
formed directly from gore 2 , a projecting point, 
and only ult. < AS. gdr, early ME. gar, a spear: 
see gore 2 , gar*.'} 1 . To pierce ; penetrate with 
a pointed instrument, as a spear or a horn; 
wound deeply. 
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die. 
Ex. xxi. 28. 
Doth any hid sin gore your conscience? 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, i. 3. 
He's like Giles Heathertap's auld boar ; ye need but 
shake a clout at him to make him turn and gore. 
Scott, Rob Roy, xxi. 
2f. To scoop ; dig. Danes. 
Mountains being only the product of Noah's flood, where 
the violence of the waters aggested the earth goared out 
of the hollow valleys. Fuller, Ch. Hist., ix., Ded. 
gore) (go-ra'), a. [< gore 2 + -e.'] In her., same 
as gored. 
1. Sumptuously adorned; superbly showy; re- 
splendent; magnificent. 
The houses be curiously builded after a gorgeous [nor- 
giouse, ed. 1551] and gallant sort, with three stories one 
over another. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), li. 2. 
Like gorgeous hangings on the wall 
Of some rich princely room. 
Drayton, Description of Elysium. 
As full of spirit as the month of May, 
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., Iv. 1. 
2. Inclined to splendor; given to gorgeous- 
ness. 
His taste was gorgeous, but it still was taste. 
Crotbe, Works, IV. 53. 
= Syn. L Superb, brilliant, dazzling; rich, costly. 
Faulkner, Hist. Acct. of the Parish of Fulham (Marryat). gorgeously (gor'jus-li), add. In a gorgeous 
'o bear full gorget. In falconry, said of a hawk when manner; with showy magnificence ; splendidly, 
he was full-fed, and refused the lure. Mm 
No goake prevailes, shee will not yeeld to might, 
No lure will cause her stoope, she braresfull gorge. 
T. Watson, Sonnets, xlvii. 
They will rule and apparel themselves gorgeously, and 
some of them far above their degrees, whether their hus- 
To have the gorge rise, to be filled with disgust or in- than the flowers of the field? 
dignation. 
Now how abhorred my imagination is ; my gorge rises 
at it Shale., Hamlet, v. 1. 
bands will or no. Latimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI. , 1550. 
Who can be more gorgeously and splendidly apparelled 
Sha 
gorgeoqsness (gor'jus-nes), . 
rp. Works, IV. 1. 
The condition 
or quality of being gorgeous ; splendor of dress, 
adornment, or decoration ; magnificence. 
It seem'd to ontvye whatever had been seene before of 
gallantry and riches, and gorgeouanens of apparel. 
Baker, Charles II., an. 1661. 
And now at last our gorge wot risen and our hearts in 
tumult. K. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Ixx. 
To heave the gorge, to retch, as from nausea or disgust ; 
hence, to take a strong dislike. 
Her delicate tenderness will find itself abused, begin to 
heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor the Moor. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 
= Syn. 7. Ravine, Defile. See valley. 
gorge (gdrj), v.; pret. and pp. gorged, ppr. gorq- gorger 1 *, . [ME. gorger, gorgere,< OF. gor- 
giere, gorgere, gourgere (= Pr. It. gorgiera), a 
Its false appearance of richness and solidity, and flaunt- 
ing gorgeowmexx, is in fact one of the charms of Indian 
jewelry, especially in an admiring but poor purchaser's 
eyes. G. C. HI. Birdwood, Indian Arts, IL 24. 
ing. [< ME. go'rgen, intr.Vgorge, < OF. (also 
F.) gorger, devour greedily, < gorge, the gullet: 
see gorge, n.'] I. trans. 1. To swallow; espe- 
gorget, wimple, also the throat ; cf . gorgier, the 
throat ; < gorge, the throat, the upper part of the 
)c it*" If^J "-J i. WiWWi X. AU DWitllUW , tLK3- , j '- ~. rf. f 
cially, to swallow with greediness or by gulps. bre | st: see 9rge, n., andcf. the dim. gorgeret.] 
So it be eaten with a reformed mouth, with sobriety, and 
humbleness ; not gorged in with gluttony or greediness. 
JB. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. 
You must fish for him [trout) with a strong line, and not 
a little hook ; and let him have time to gorge your hook, 
for he does not usually forsake it, as he oft will in the day- 
fishing. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 117. 
Hence 2. To glut; fill the throat or stomach 
of; satiate. 
1. Same as gorget, 1. 
Hys vyser and hys gorgere. Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 621. 
2. A gorget or wimple. 
That other [dame] wyth a gorger watz gered ouer the 
swoyre [throat]. 
Sir Oaicayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 957. 
The gorger or wimple is stated first to have appeared in 
Edward the First's reign, and an example is found on the 
monument of Aveline, Countess of Lancaster, who died in 
