Gordius (gordius)

[NL., the complex knots into which these animals twist themselves: see Gordian.] 1. The typical genus of threadworms of the origin: cf. Gael. gorm , a green or gra y plain, or gort , standing corn, a garden, a field?) + cock1.] The Scotch moor-cock, red-grouse, or red-game, Lagopus scoticus . Also garcock . gor-crow (gôr'krō), n . [Also gore-crow; gorel , filth, dirt, carrion (see gorel ), + crow2.] The common carrion-crow, Corvus corone. Also gar- crow. It was formerly distinguished from the rook, which feeds entirely on grain and insects, by the name of the gor or gorecrow . Pennant , Brit. Zool., The Carrion Crow. The black blood-raven and the hooded gore - crow sang amang yere branches. Blackwood's Mag ., June, 1820, p. 283. Make thee an ark of gopher wood. II. n. A gordian or hairworm. Gen. vi. 14. gordiaceous (gôr-di-a's hi us), a . Same as gor- 2. The yellow-wood, Clad rast is tinct or i a , of the diacean . United States. Gordiadæ (gôr-dia-dē), n . pl . Same as Gordiida . ida; the hair worms hair-eels. or A common species is called G. aquatic us. These creatures are so slender that they IMG:content-2521.jpg:[blocks in formation] The Young Variable Gordius, after escaping from the egg, highly magnified. a, the worm beginning to protrude the oral apparatus; b, the first circle of hooklets bordering the collar reflected, and protrusion of the second circle of hooklets and the style; c, complete protrusion of both circles of hooklets and the style. (After Leidy.) are popularly supposed to be animated horse-hairs, or to be produced from horse-hairs which fall into the water. 2. [l. c.; pl. gordii (-1).] A species or an individual of the genus Gordius; a gordian. Gordon i a (gôr-dō'ni-ä), n. [NL., named after James Gordon, a London nurseryman of the 18th century.] A ternstræmiaceous genus, of two species, very ornamental evergreen shrubs or small trees of the southern United States, with white large flowers. The lob Flower of Gordon i a pubescens. lolly bay, G. Las i an thus , is found near the coast from Virginia to the Mi i ippi, and its light, soft, reddish wood The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary They will be all on a gore of blood, most sad and griev- N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 175. Altars grew marble then, and reek'd with gore . IMG:content-2523.png:[blocks in formation] go rebill (gōr'bil), n. [Not found in ME. or AS.; gore2 , ult. AS. gar , a spear, + billl .] bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby The garfish. [Local, Eng.] gored (gōrd), a . In her .: ( a ) Composed of con- vex curves larger than in invected. ( b ) Bound- ed by a line as in ( a ). Also goared , goré , gory . -Fe e gored. Same as fe e arrondi. See fe e . gore-strake (gōr's trāk), n. Naut ., a strake which does not reach as far as the stern or stern-post. gorge (gorj), n. [ gorge , the throat, gorge , the throat, gullet, F. gorge , the throat, a narrow pa , a gorge, = Pr. gorga , gorja = Sp . Pg . gorja = It. gorga , gorgia , the throat, gullet (ML. gorgia , the throat, a narrow pa , ML. gorga , gurga , a whirlpool), gurges , a whirlpool, an aby . Cf. L. gurgulio , the gul- let; Skt. gargara , a whirlpool, a redupl. form ✓gar , swallow. Cf. gargle1 , gargoyle , gurgle , etc.] 1. The throat; the gullet. He with him closd, and, having mightie hold Upon his throte, did gripe his gorge 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. Hence-2. That which is swallowed or is pro- vided for swallowing; the material of a meal. What though? because the Vulturs had then but small pickings, shall we therefore go and fling them a full gorge ? Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. 3. The act of gorging; inordinate eating; a heavy meal: as, to indulge in a gorge after long abstinence. [Colloq.] -4. A jam; a ma which chokes up a pa age: as, a gorge of logs in a river; an ice- gorge .-5. A feeling of dis- gust, indignation, resentment, or the like: from the sympathetic influence of such emotions, when extreme in degree, upon the muscles of the throat. He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyrе, і That old man, now lord of the broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd. 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, gorge-curtain (gôrj kertān), n. In fort ., the defensive wall of a gorge or entrance, as be- tween the faces of a bastion, redoubt, etc. See cut under bastion . The blindages over the casemates of the gorge -curtain New York Tribune , April 19, 1862. gorged (gôrjd), a. 1. Having a gorge or throat; throated. [Rare.] From the dread summit of this chalky bourn Look up a-height; the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard. 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 ech i- nus; the necking or hypophyge. It is found also in some provincial Greek Doric, as at Pæstum. See cut under column. (b) A cavetto or hollow molding.-7. A narrow pa age between steep rocky walls; a ravine or defile with precipitous sides. Downward from his mountain gorge Stept the long-hair'd long-bearded solitary. IMG:content-2524.png:[blocks in formation] Doth any hid sin gore your conscience? Beau . and Fl . , Knight of Malta, i. 3. He's like Giles Heather tap's auld boar; ye need but shake a clout at him to make him turn and gore . Scott , Rob Roy, xxi. 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.-11. A pitcher of earthenware or stoneware. Also george . Like gorgeous hangings on the wall Of some rich princely room. As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. factory of earthenware known under the name of white Faulkner , Hist. Acct. of the Parish of Fulham (Marryat). To bear full gorget, in falconry , said of a hawk when manner; with showy magnificence; splendidly. No goake prev a i les, shee will not yeeld to might, No lure will cause her stoope, she beares full gorge. T. Watson , Sonnets, xlvii. To have the gorge rise, to be filled with disgust or in- dig nation. Now how abhorred my imagination is; my gorge rises at it. Shak ., Hamlet, v. 1. And now at last our gorge was risen and our hearts in tumult. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, lxx. hence, to take a strong dislike. To heave the gorge, to retch, as from nausea or disgust; Her delicate tenderne will find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge , disrelish and abhor the Moor. =Syn. 7. Ravine, Defile. See valley. gorge (gôrj), v .; pret. and pp. gorged , ppr. gorg- ing . [ ME. gorgen , intr., gorge, gorger , devour greedily, gorge , the gullet: see gorge , n.] I. trans. 1. To swallow; espe- cially, to swallow with greedine or by gulps. So it be eaten with a reformed mouth, with sobriety, and humblene ; not gorged in with gluttony or greedine . B. 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. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 117. Hence-2. To glut; fill the throat or stomach of; satiate. gorger 1269. From the poem, however, it would seem that the gorger was confined to elderly ladies. Sir F. Madden, quoted in Sir Gawayne and the Green [Knight (E. E. T. S.), notes, p. 82.