n. [ F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g&rsdot_; to devour. Cf. Gorget. ] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Angling) A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. --
Circle of the gorge (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis. --
Gorge fishing, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge. --
Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight. [ 1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gorged p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging ] [ F. gorger. See Gorge, n. ] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The giant gorged with flesh. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a gorge or throat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Glutted; fed to the full. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge, n. ] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak.

-- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. gorge neck. ] (Arch.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n. ] 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unfix the gorget's iron clasp. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A ruff worn by women. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Surg.) (a) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. (b) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorget hummer (Zool.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. [ 1913 Webster ]