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Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) 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..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) 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..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A ruff worn by women.

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Vampire :: Vampire (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..

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities..

Engorge :: Engorge (v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor..

Ingorge :: Ingorge (v. t. & i.) See Engorge.

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A narrow passage or entranc.

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal..

Overgorge :: Overgorge (v. t.) To gorge to excess.

Gorged :: Gorged (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.

Glut :: Glut (v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge..

Blown :: Blown (p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas..

Disgorged :: Disgorged (imp. & p. p.) of Disgorg.

Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts..

Hepatize :: Hepatize (v. t.) To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs..

Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..

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