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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 1.6 [wn]:
glut
n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn:
{oversupply}, {surfeit}]
v : 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}]
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
GLUT
openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU)
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