gluttonousness (glutnusnes)

Gluttony. gluttony (glut'n-i), n.; pl. gluttonies (-iz). [ Thauh hus glotenye be of good ale he goth to a cold beddyng, And hus heued vn-heled vneisyliche ywrye. For swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton , Comus, 1. 776. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. The elder Pliny, the most indefatigable laborer, the gly, v. i . See gley . [Prov. Eng.] most voracious literary glutton of ancient times. G. P. Marsh, Lects, on Eng. Lang., xxi. 3. In zoöl.: (a) A popular name of the wolverene, Gulo luscus or arctic us, the largest and most voracious species of the family Mustelidæ. It belongs to the same subfamily, Mustelinæ, as the martens and sables, but is a much larger animal, exceeding a badger in size, thick-set and clumsy, and somewhat resembling a small bear. It is of circumpolar distribution, inhabiting northerly parts of Europe, Asia, and America, The name has been more particularly used for the animal of Europe and Asia, from which the American species has sometimes been supposed to differ, and is usually called the wolverene. They are, however, specifically identical. See wolverene. (b) Some other animal likened the above. Masked glutton, a book-name of one of to the paradoxures, Paguma larvata, from the white streak on the head and the white eye-ring. South American glutton, a book-name of the grison or Quiana marten. See Galictis. Syn. 1. See epicure. II. a. Of or belonging to a glutton; gluttonous, glyc-, glyco-. [L., etc.,