Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glut"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Glut \Glut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glutted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Glutting}.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L.
glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. ? to eat, Skr. gar. Cf.
{Gluttion}, {Englut}.]
1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

Though every drop of water swear against it, And
gape at widest to glut him. --Shak.

2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving
of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from
his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden.

The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to
glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded
populace. --C. Kingsley.

{To glut the market}, to furnish an oversupply of any article
of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Glut \Glut\, v. i.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted
all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Glut \Glut\, n.
1. That which is swallowed. --Milton

2. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence,
often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over
abundance; as, a glut of the market.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

glut
n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn:
{oversupply}, {surfeit}]
v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself [syn: {gorge},
{ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {englut}, {stuff}, {engorge},
{overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize}, {gormandise}, {gourmandize},
{binge}, {pig out}, {satiate}, {scarf out}] [ant: {nibble}]
2: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis
shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the
Orient" [syn: {flood}, {oversupply}]


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