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Look up: glutton

  1. Glutton
    Glutton is British boxing slang for someone who takes a lot of punishment.
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  2. Glutton
    Glutton is British boxing slang for someone who takes a lot of punishment.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. glutton
    [n] - a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess 2. [n] - wolverine of northern Eurasia
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Glutton
    Glut'ton noun [ Middle English glotoun , glotun , French glouton , from Latin gluto , glutto . See Glut .] 1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. 2. Fig.: One who gluts him...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/37

  5. Glutton
    Glut'ton adjective Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. ' Glutton souls.' Dryden. « A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.» Fuller.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/37

  6. Glutton
    Glut'ton transitive verb & i. To glut; to eat voraciously. [ Obsolete] « Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.» Lovelace. « Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.» Drayton.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/37

  7. glutton
    1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. ... 2. One who gluts himself. 'Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.' (Granville) ... 3. <zoology> A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinat...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. glutton
    Gulo gulo noun musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. Glutton
    • (a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. • (n.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, an...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. glutton
    glutton 1. Someone who greedily eats too much; devouring, voracious. 2. A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink. 3. Someone with an inordinate capacity to receive or withstand something: 'He was a glutton for punishment as he stayed up to work until just before dawn.'
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  11. glutton
    glutton: see wolverine.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09138

  12. Glutton
    The glutton also known as the Wolverene or Wolverine (Gulo arcticus) is a carnivorous quadruped, about the size of a large badger, and intermediate between the bear family and the weasels. It inhabits northern Europe and America. The glutton is slow and clumsy, but persevering, cunning, fierce, and ...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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