glut

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GLUT, verb intransitive [Latin glutio, Low Latin gluto, a glutton.] 1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge. 2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites. 3. To feast or delight even to satiety. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. 4. To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market. 5. To saturate. GLUT, noun That which is swallowed. 1. Plenty even to loathing. He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights. A glut of study and retirement. 2. More than enough; superabundance. 3. Any thing that fills or obstructs the passage. 4. A wooden wedge.
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