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A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico. (more info) 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. Between

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A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico. (more info) 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. Luke xvi. 26. 2. That which swallows; the gullet. Shak. 3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. Shak. A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold. Tennyson.

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  • GORGEOUS
    Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
  • DEPTH
    The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
  • GORGET
    A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
  • ABYSSAL
    Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. Abyssal zone , one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond
  • PROFOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
  • PROFOUNDLY
    In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
  • DEPTHLESS
    1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
  • ABYSS
    The center of an escutcheon. Note: This word, in its leading uses, is associated with the cosmological notions of the Hebrews, having reference to a supposed illimitable mass of waters from which our earth sprung, and beneath whose profound depths
  • CHASMY
    Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.
  • PROFOUND
    1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton. 2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound
  • DEPTHEN
    To deepen.
  • GORGELET
    A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
  • GORGE
    A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. (more info) abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser.
  • CHASMED
    Having gaps or a chasm.
  • ABYSSINIAN
    Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. Abyssinian gold, an alloy of 90.74 parts of copper and 8.33 parts of zink. Ure.
  • CHASM
    1. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge. 2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. Memory .
  • GORGERIN
    In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.
  • GORGED
    Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck. 3. Glutted; fed to the full. (more info) 1. Having a gorge or throat.
  • REGORGE
    1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. 2. To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.
  • ISOCHASMIC
    Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line.
  • COUPE-GORGE
    Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.
  • DISGORGEMENT
    The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.
  • ENGORGE
    Etym: 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. 2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
  • DEMIGORGE
    Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
  • INGORGE
    See MILTON
  • ENGORGED
    Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. (more info) 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
  • ENGORGEMENT
    An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. (more info) 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

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