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- English Word Gordian Definition One of the Gordiacea.
- English Word Gordius Definition A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.
- English Word Gore Definition Dirt; mud.
- English Word Gore Definition Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
- English Word Gore Definition A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
- English Word Gore Definition A small traingular piece of land.
- English Word Gore Definition One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
- English Word Gore Definition To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
- English Word Gore Definition To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
- English Word Gorebill Definition The garfish.
- English Word Gored Definition of Gore
- English Word Gorflies Definition of Gorfly
- English Word Gorfly Definition A dung fly.
- English Word Gorge Definition The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- English Word Gorge Definition A narrow passage or entrance
- English Word Gorge Definition A defile between mountains.
- English Word Gorge Definition The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- English Word Gorge Definition That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- English Word Gorge Definition A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- English Word Gorge Definition A concave molding; a cavetto.