| 单词 | to bear full gorge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bear full gorge a. Falconry. The crop of a hawk. to bear full gorge: to be full fed. Hence, in opprobrious rhetorical use, the ‘maw’, devouring capacity, of a monster, or a person, etc. spoken of as gluttonous, bloodthirsty, or rapacious. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > rapacity > rapacious person gorgec1450 sanguisugec1540 horse-leech1546 harpy1589 vulture1605 leech1785 sanguisorb1884 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > digestive organs of gleeta1340 gorgec1450 panela1475 glut1611 quid1834 c1450 Bk. Hawkyng in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 304 The flesch that is in his gorge woll be oversoden if it be ther any while long holdyng. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C viij She goorgith when she fillith hir goorge with meete. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij Theyr gredy gorgys ar rapt with the smell. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xlvii. sig. F4 No Lure will cause her stoope, she beares full gorge. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 With ramd cramd garbadge, theire gorges draftye be gulled. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. v. sig. K2v Here lies a dish to feast thy fathers gorge. 1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶ Gorge, is that part of the Hawke which first receiueth the meat, and is called the Craw or crop in other fowles. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. iv. xxvii. 23 Nothing could glut the gorges of those bloody Priests. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 63 This mighty sailewing'd monster that menaces to swallow up the Land, unlesse her bottomlesse gorge may be satisfi'd with the blood of the Kings daughter the Church. 1852 C. Kingsley Andromeda 64 A prey for the gorge of the monster. < as lemmas |
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