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Definition of Gorging
1. gorge [v] - See also: gorge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorging
Literary usage of Gorging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... and there the fertile Nile, Curst with that gorging fiend the crocodile, Wind
their long way: the parent lake beheld. Great Nilus' fount, unseen, ..."
2. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1899)
"Induced by gorging Blood. — The provocations to such behavior thus far considered
have all been such as might, and probably do, cause more or less alarm. ..."
3. The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good by Walter Montagu Kerr (1886)
"... river—John's success in hunting—gorging the crowd—Furious quarrels over meat—The
best way to manage natives—Sterile rocks of Mashona-land—Making a ..."
4. The Diseases of Animals: A Book of Brief and Popular Advice on the Care and by Nelson Slater Mayo (1920)
"gorging WITH GRAIN It sometimes occurs that animals, especially horses and cattle,
gain access to quantities of grain and injure themselves by eating an ..."
5. Veterinary medicine and surgery in diseases and injuries of the horse by F. O. Kirby, William Henry Kelly (1883)
"Lampas, Choking, Indigestion, gorging, Grain Founder, Gastric Impaction, Gorged
Stomach, Impaction of the Stomach, Dyspepsia, Chronic Indigestion, ..."
6. Management and Breeding of Horses by Merritt Wesley Harper (1913)
"... running away, and the like, and the latter imperfections of less importance,
such as tongue lolling, tearing blankets, gorging grain and the like. ..."
7. Arrian on Coursing: The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translatd from by Arrian (1831)
"... fond of bread or gruel.s This kind of farinaceous food is most strengthening
to them, and there is no fear of their gorging themselves too much with it. ..."
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