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orgies
(encz) | orgies,orgie pl. |
Orgies
(gcide) | Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; pl. Orgies.
A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
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Orgies
(gcide) | Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; sing. Orgies. [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia,
pl., Gr. ?; akin to ? work. See Organ, and Work.]
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1. A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of
some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by
the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or
Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute
revelry. Usually in the plural form.
Note: [The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
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As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
Those priests high orgies held. --Drayton.
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2. Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited
carouse. --B. Jonson. --Tennyson.
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3. A series of sexual activities involving more than two
couples in a group.
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4. Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence
in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.
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orgies
(encz) | orgies,orgie pl. |
Porgies
(gcide) | Porgy \Por"gy\, n.; pl. Porgies. [See Paugie.]
1. (Zool.)
(a) The scup.
(b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish.
(c) The margate fish.
(d) The spadefish.
(e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf
fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given
locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
[Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy.]
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2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the
jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of
the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of
Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.
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