Word Meanings - GORMANDIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

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• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• GLUTTONY
  Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• GLUTTONOUS
  Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• GLUTTONIZE
  To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. Hallywell.
• SWALLOWWORT
  See Celandine. A poisonous plant of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
• SWALLOWTAIL
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• SWALLOW-TAILED
  United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck , the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull , an Arctic gull , which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite , the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth , a European moth
• GLUTTONISH
  Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.
• GLUTTON
  A carnivorous mammal , of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. Glutton
• GREEDILY
  , adv. In a greedy manner.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• BANK SWALLOW
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