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Webster 1913 Edition
Glutton
1.
One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
2.
Fig.: One who gluts himself.
Gluttons
in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.
Glutton bird
(Zool.)
, the giant fulmar (
Ossifraga gigantea
); – called also Mother Carey’s goose
, and mollymawk
. Glut′ton
,Adj.
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
“Glutton souls.” Dryden.
A
glutton
monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.
Glut′ton
,Verb.
T.
& I.
To glut; to eat voraciously.
[Obs.]
Gluttoned
at last, return at home to pine. Lovelace.
Whereon in Egypt
gluttoning
they fed. Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Glutton
GLUT'TON
,Noun.
1.
One eager of any thing to excess. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.
2.
In zoology, an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the N. of Europe and Siberia. It grows to the length of three feet,but has short legs and moves slowly. It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal. It is names from its voracious appetite.