Word Meanings - ENGORGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. (more info) 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

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• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• GLUTTONY
  Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
• VORACITY
  The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• OVERFULLNESS
  The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit.
• DEVOUR
  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to
• CONGESTION
  Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ ; local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. (more info) 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. The
• GLUTTONOUS
  Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed
• GLUTTONIZE
  To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. Hallywell.
• SYSTEMIC
  Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n.,
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• SELF-DEVOURING
  Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• TANDEM SYSTEM
  = Cascade system.
• BLOCK SYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train