engore

verb — 2 senses

engore

verb

/ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology From en- + gore.

1

Obsolete To gore, pierce, or lacerate.

  • deadly engored of a great wild Bore1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38:
2

Obsolete To make bloody or gory.

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

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