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noun

Gore n.

Dirt; mud. (Obs.)

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

Gore n.

A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

A small traingular piece of land.

(Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. Note: It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tenné. Like the other abatements it is a modern fancy and not actually used.

verb

Gore v. t. (past & past part. gored; pres. part. goring) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. "The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet."

Gore v. t. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

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... ideas. He discussed "a rendezvous in the Rockies," remote from the centre of civilisation, as surely an appropriate locale for a train-scuttling speciality or a fight to a death finish between Roaring Gore and Wild Whiskers. A pair of athletes, scienced to the tips of their vibrating digits, compelled to appeal to the courtesy of a wild and well-whiskered Legislature, would doubtless appear inconsistent to gentlemen of the National Sporting Club of London, ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... stain'd Apulia's spacious wilds with gore; No fiercer Juba's thirsty land, Dire nurse of ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... it came to pass that Amalickiah commanded that his armies should march forth and see what had happened to the king; and when they had come to the spot, and found the king lying in his gore, Amalickiah pretended to be wroth, and said: Whosoever loved the king, let him go forth, and pursue his servants ...

— The Book Of Mormon - An Account Written By The Hand Of Mormon Upon Plates Taken - From The Plates Of Nephi • Anonymous

... built a little stronger. However, no matter. I heartily pray that I may prove too strong for you; though, at the same time, I am convinced I shall not. Remember, therefore, that you have no right to exult if you toss and gore me, for I tell you beforehand that you will. And, if you do, that only proves me to be in the right, and a very sagacious person; since my argument has all the appearance of being irresistible, and yet such is my discernment that ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... infant gore Alone He wins the sheltering shore: The virgin's Child survives the stroke, When ...

— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

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