engore
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/
Verb
engore (third-person singular simple present engores, present participle engoring, simple past and past participle engored)
- (obsolete, transitive) To gore, pierce, or 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
- (obsolete, transitive) To make bloody or gory.
- [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, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- Cut out this arrow; and the blood, that is engored and dry.
References
- “engore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.