gory1 (gori)

[ blood; smeared with blood. Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. The hero (Uly es in the lower regions) stands guard, with his drawn sword, to drive away the shade his own mother from the gory trench over which she hovers, hankering after the raw blood. Everett , Orations, II. 221. 21. Bloody; murderous. The obligation of our blood forbids A gory emulation 'twixt us twain. Shak., T. and C., iv. 5. 3. Resembling gore; bloody-looking. Waves of blood-red, fiery, liquid lava hurled their billows upon an iron-bound headland, and then rushed up the face of the cliffs to to their gory spray high in the air. Lady Bra ey , Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xv. gory2 (gō'ri), a. her., same as gored. [ gost, n . A Middle English form of goose . gosh (gosh), n. and interj . [A variation of God .] A minced oath, commonly in the phrase by gosh . [U. S. and Scotch.] gosh a (gosh'a), a . [Hind. gosh a , a corner, closet, retirement.] Secluded; not appearing gormandizer, gourmandizer (gör'-, gör'man in public. [Anglo-Indian.]