engore

English

Etymology

en- +‎ gore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/

Verb

engore (third-person singular simple present engores, present participle engoring, simple past and past participle engored)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38:

     deadly engored of a great wild Bore

2. (obsolete, transitive) To make bloody.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Cut out this arrow; and the blood, that is engored and dry.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “engore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Greeno, negroe