n.; pl. Orgies A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; sing. Orgies /plu>. [ F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia, pl., Gr. &unr_;; akin to &unr_; work. See Organ, and Work. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Usually in the plural form. [ The singular is rarely used in this sense. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
Those priests high orgies held. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse. B. Jonson. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A series of sexual activities involving more than two couples in a group. [ PJC ]

4. Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks. [ PJC ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; the length of the outstretched arms. So named because, when at rest, it stretches forward its fore legs like arms. ] (Zool.). A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. filostorgi`a; fi`los loving + storgh` affection. ] Natural affection, as of parents for their children. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Porgies [ See Paugie. ] 1. (Zool.) (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [ Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]