<B>gorcock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the male red grouse; moor cock. </DL>
<A NAME="gorcrow">
<B>gorcrow, </B>noun. <B>=carrion crow.</B></DL>
<A NAME="gordian">
<B>Gordian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with Gordius, an ancient king of Phrygia. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) intricate; involved. </DL>
<A NAME="gordianknot">
<B>Gordian knot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an intricate knot tied by Gordius, legendary king of Phrygia, to be undone only by the person who should rule Asia. Alexander the Great cut it through with his sword. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) an intricate or baffling problem or great difficulty that needs solving. <BR> <I>Ex. We have come to the Gordian knot of the speculations on the build-up of the elements (Scientific American).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>cut the Gordian knot,</B> </I>to find and use a quick, easy way out of a difficulty. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] would have cut the Gordian knot of hereditary right (Henry Bolingbroke).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gordonsetter">
<B>Gordon setter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a breed of hunting dogs having a black coat with tan markings and standing 23 to 27 inches high. </DL>
<A NAME="gore">
<B>gore</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> blood that is spilled; thick blood; clotted blood. <BR> <I>Ex. The battlefield was covered with gore.</I> </DL>
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<B>gore</B> (2), transitive verb, <B>gored,</B> <B>goring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to wound with a horn or tusk. <BR> <I>Ex. The angry bull gored the farmer in the leg.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to pierce or stab deeply. </DL>
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<B>gore</B> (3), noun, verb, <B>gored,</B> <B>goring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a long, three-sided piece of cloth or other material put in a sail, skirt, coat, glove, or other article fitted to a special use, to give greater width or change the shape. <BR> <I>Ex. The skirt is all large gores below the hip yoke, which dips low in back (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a series of tapering strips of paper or plastic, each containing a part of a printed map, that are pasted on a globe. <DD><B> 3. </B>a local, minor civil division in Maine and Vermont. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Dialect.) a wedge-shaped strip of land on the side of an irregular field. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to put or make a gore in. </DL>
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<B>-gored,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) having a ______ gore or gores. <BR> <I>Ex. Five-gored = having five gores.</I> </DL>
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<B>gorge, </B>noun, verb, <B>gorged,</B> <B>gorging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a deep, narrow valley, usually steep and rocky, especially one with a stream. <BR> <I>Ex. Through the gorge of this glen they found access to a blackbog (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a gorging; gluttonous meal. <DD><B> 3. </B>the contents of a stomach. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a feeling of disgust, indignation, resentment, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Cruelty to animals makes one's gorge rise.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a narrow rear entrance from a fort into an outwork or outer part. <DD><B> 6. </B>(U.S.) a mass stopping up a narrow passage. <BR> <I>Ex. An ice gorge blocked the river.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>the groove in a pulley. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Archaic.) the throat; gullet. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to eat greedily until full; stuff with food. <BR> <I>Ex. They ... Gorge from a stranger's hand and rend their master (Shelley).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to swallow or devour greedily. <BR> <I>Ex. Though they see the hook and the string ... they gorge the bait nevertheless (Thackeray).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to stuff with food. <BR> <I>Ex. He gorged himself with cake at the party.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to fill full. (SYN) glut, satiate. noun <B>gorger.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="gorged">
<B>gorged, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a gorge or throat. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Heraldry.) having the neck encircled with a collar, coronet, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="gorgeous">
<B>gorgeous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>richly colored; showy; magnificent. <BR> <I>Ex. The peacock spread his gorgeous tail. The gorgeous sunset thrilled us all.</I> (SYN) dazzling. <DD><B> 2. </B>splendid. <BR> <I>Ex. I am taxed on my income! This is perfectly gorgeous! I never felt so important in my life before (Mark Twain).</I> adv. <B>gorgeously.</B> noun <B>gorgeousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="gorgerin">
<B>gorgerin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) the necklike portion of a capital of a column, or a feature forming the junction between a shaft and its capital. </DL>
<A NAME="gorget">
<B>gorget, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a piece of armor for the throat. <BR> <I>Ex. Unfix the gorget's iron clasp, And give him room for life to gasp (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=collar.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=necklace.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>a covering for the neck and breast, formerly worn by women; a wimple. <DD><B> 5. </B>a patch of color on the throat of an animal or bird. <BR> <I>Ex. the golden-winged woodpecker, with ... his broad black gorget (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a grooved surgical instrument used in operations for removing stones, as from the bladder. </DL>
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<B>gorgio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gios,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the Romany name for anyone not of the Gypsy people. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with gorgios. </DL>
<A NAME="gorgon">
<B>Gorgon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) any one of three sisters (Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa), having snakes for hair and faces so horrible that anyone who looked at them turned to stone. </DL>
<A NAME="gorgon">
<B>gorgon, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a very ugly or terrible person, especially a repulsive woman. <DD><B> 2. </B>anything fearful or unpleasant. <DD><I>adj. </I> like a gorgon or gorgon's. <BR> <I>Ex. Your gorgon looks turn me to stone (Phillip Massinger).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gorgoneion">
<B>gorgoneion, </B>noun, pl. <B>-neia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a representation of a Gorgon's head. </DL>
<A NAME="gorgonia">
<B>gorgonia, </B>noun. <B>=sea fan.</B></DL>
<A NAME="gorgonian">
<B>gorgonian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the gorgonias. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=sea fan.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="gorgonian">
<B>Gorgonian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or resembling a Gorgon; terrible; petrifying. </DL>
<A NAME="gorgoniancoral">
<B>gorgonian coral,</B> <B>=sea fan.</B></DL>
<A NAME="gorgonin">
<B>gorgonin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the horny substance making up the shell of the gorgonian coral (sea fan). </DL>
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<B>gorgonize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to petrify; make hard or stony. <DD><B> 2. </B>to stare at with a Gorgon's look. <BR> <I>Ex. Next look, and she might have gorgonized me (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>Gorgonzola, </B>noun, or <B>Gorgonzola cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strong, white, blue-veined Italian cheese made from milk, that looks and tastes somewhat like Roquefort cheese. </DL>
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<B>gorhen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the female red grouse. </DL>
<A NAME="gorilla">
<B>gorilla, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the largest and most powerful ape. The lowland gorilla is found in the forests of western Africa and the mountain gorilla lives in central Africa. It is mainly vegetarian in diet, social in habit, and very dangerous if irritated, wounded, or cornered, because of its strength. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>a strong and brutal man. <DD><B> b. </B>a gangster. </DL>
<A NAME="gorilline">
<B>gorilline, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling the gorilla, especially in the skull and face. <BR> <I>Ex. Rhodesian man ... is far more primitive--more apelike, more gorilline--than any of modern man's variants, living or extinct (A. Keith).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gorilloid">
<B>gorilloid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like or having the characteristics of a gorilla. <BR> <I>Ex. gorilloid beasts with huge canine teeth (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="goring">
<B>goring, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gore or gores. </DL>
<A NAME="gork">
<B>gork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medical Slang.) a person who has lost brain function through disease or age. <BR> <I>Ex. Like many other physicians, I have cared for hopelessly brain-dead people (referred to by the less genteel as "vegetables" or "gorks") who ... have been maintained by machines and nutritious solutions (Mary E. Costanza).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gormand">
<B>gormand, </B>noun. <B>=gourmand.</B></DL>
<A NAME="gormandize">
<B>gormandize, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to stuff oneself with food; eat very greedily; gorge. (SYN) cram, glut. noun <B>gormandizer.</B> </DL>
<B>gorodki, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a combination of shuffleboard and ninepins, formerly a favorite national game in Russia. </DL>
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<B>go-round, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a round of conflict; a stormy session. <BR> <I>Ex. the committee's first go-round.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a performance; turn. <BR> <I>Ex. the last go-round of an actor.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a tour. </DL>
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<B>gorp, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a mixture of nuts, sweets, and the like, eaten as a snack. <BR> <I>Ex. I took a ration of gorp--soybeans, sunflower seeds, oats, pretzels, Wheat Chex, raisins, and kelp--and poured another ration into Carol's hands (John McPhee).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gorse">
<B>gorse, </B>noun. <B>=furze.</B></DL>
<A NAME="gorsedd">
<B>Gorsedd, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a meeting of Welsh bards and druids, especially the assembly meeting daily as a preliminary to the eisteddfod. </DL>
<A NAME="gorsy">
<B>gorsy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> overgrown with gorse. </DL>
<A NAME="gory">
<B>gory, </B>adjective, <B>gorier,</B> <B>goriest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>covered with gore; stained with blood; bloody. <BR> <I>Ex. Everyone in the car accident was a gory mess.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>with much bloodshed; involving or concerned with bloodshed. <BR> <I>Ex. a gory murder or accident, a gory tale.</I> adv. <B>gorily.</B> noun <B>goriness.</B> </DL>
