1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West
Indian sea fan sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
2. Any slender branched gorgonian.
Gorgoniacea
(||Gor*go`ni*a"ce*a) n. pl. [NL. See Gorgonia.] (Zoöl.) One of the principal divisions of
Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous
crust, or cœnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.
The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be
in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cœnenchyma.
Gorgonian
(Gor*go"ni*an) a. [L. Gorgoneus.]
1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.
The rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.
Milton. 2. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
Gorgonian
(Gor*go"ni*an), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Gorgoniacea.
Gorgonize
(Gor"gon*ize) v. t. To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. [R.]
Gorhen
(Gor"hen`) n. [Gor- as in gorcock + hen.] (Zoöl.) The female of the gorcock.
Gorilla
(Go*ril"la) n. [An African word; found in a Greek translation of a treatise in Punic by Hanno, a
Carthaginian.] (Zoöl.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is
remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some
respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.
Goring
(Gor"ing or Gor"ing cloth`) n., (Naut.) A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the
foot.
Gorm
(Gorm) n. Axle grease. See Gome. [Prov. Eng.]
Gorm
(Gorm), v. t. To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. [Prov.
Eng.]
Gorma
(Gor"ma) n. (Zoöl.) The European cormorant.
Gormand
(Gor"mand) n. [F. gourmand; cf. Prov. F. gourmer to sip, to lap, gourmacher to eat improperly,
F. gourme mumps, glanders, Icel. gormr mud, mire, Prov. E. gorm to smear, daub; all perh. akin to E.
gore blood, filth. Cf. Gourmand.] A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.
Gormand
(Gor"mand), a. Gluttonous; voracious. Pope.
Gormander
(Gor"mand*er) n. See Gormand, n. [Obs.]
Gormandism
(Gor"mand*ism) n. Gluttony.
Gormandize
(Gor"mand*ize) v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Gormandized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gormandizing ]
[F. gourmandise gluttony. See Gormand.] To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or
like a glutton. Shak.
Gormandizer
(Gor"mand*i`zer) n. A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.
