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GORGE , strictly the See also:

French word for the See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat considered externally, Hence it is applied in See also:

FALCONRY (Fr. fauconnerie, from Late Lat. falco, falcon)

falconry to a See also:

HAWK (O. Eng. hafoc or heafoc, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch havik, Ger. Habicht; the root is hab-, haf-, to hold, cf. Lat. accipiter, from capere)

hawk's See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop, and thus, with the sense of something greedy or ravenous, to See also:

food given to a hawk and to the contents of a hawk's crop or See also:

STOMACH (Gr. vrbsaxos from arbga, a mouth)

stomach. It is from this sense that the expression of a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person's " gorge rising at " anything in the sense of loathing or disgust is derived. " Gorge," from See also:

ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy with " throat," is used with the meaning of a narrow opening as of a See also:

RAVINE

ravine or valley between hills; in fortification, of the See also:

NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck of an outwork or See also:

BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

bastion; and in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, of the narrow See also:

PART

part of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman Doric See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column, between the See also:

ECHINUS (Gr. for " hedge-hog " or " sea-urchin ")

echinus and the See also:

ASTRAGAL (from the Gr. ao-rpbyaXos, the ankle-joint)

astragal. From " gorge " also comes a diminutive " See also:

GORGET (O. Fr. gorgete, dim. of gorge, throat)

gorget," a portion of a woman's See also:

costume in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle ages, being a See also:

close See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of wimple covering the neck and upper part of the See also:

BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast, and also that part of the See also:

BODY

body See also:

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

armour covering the neck and See also:

COLLAR

collar-See also:

bone (see GORGET). The word " gorgeous," of splendid or magnificent See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, comes from the 0. Fr. See also:

GORGIAS (c. 483–375 B.C.)

gorgias, with the same meaning, and has very doubtfully been connected with gorge, a ruffle or neck-covering, of a supposed elaborate See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

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