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a.
Having a throat which produces a shrill note.
n.
Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
n.
An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
superl.
Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.
n.
Same as Gorgerin.
n.
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
n.
A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
a.
Having a gorge or throat.
n.
A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
n.
A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
n.
A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
imp. & p. p.
of Gorge
v. t.
To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
v. t.
To gorge to excess.
n.
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
n.
A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
n.
A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
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See Gorget, 1 and 2.
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A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
n.
Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
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