v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like three horses that have broken fence,
And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting. ] [ OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. &unr_; to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut. ] 1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at widest to glut him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. [ 1913 Webster ]

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is swallowed. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market. [ 1913 Webster ]

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [ Prov. Eng. ] (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. Raymond. (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. Knight. (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln. (e) A block used for a fulcrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Glutaric + aconitic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL. See Gluteal. ] (Anat.) Any of several muscles in the buttocks of man and most mammals, especially the great muscle of the buttock (the gluteus maximus); also, the corresponding muscle in many lower animals. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ In man, the gluteus is composed of three distinct parts, which extend and abduct the thigh, and help support the body in standing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gluten + -amic. ] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to gluten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glutamic acid, a nitrogenous organic acid obtained from certain albuminoids, as gluten; -- called also amido-glutaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Glutamic + tartaric. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ G. &unr_; rump, pl., the buttocks. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutæus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., glue: cf. F. gluten. See Glue. ] (Chem.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Gluten is a complex and variable mixture of glutin or gliadin, vegetable fibrin, vegetable casein, oily material, etc., and is a very nutritious element of food. It may be separated from the flour of grain by subjecting this to a current of water, the starch and other soluble matters being thus washed out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gluten bread, bread containing a large proportion of gluten; -- used in cases of diabetes. --
Gluten casein (Chem.), a vegetable proteid found in the seeds of grasses, and extracted as a dark, amorphous, earthy mass. --
Gluten fibrin (Chem.), a vegetable proteid found in the cereal grains, and extracted as an amorphous, brownish yellow substance. [ 1913 Webster ]