1. [n]  wolverine of northern Eurasia
2. [n]  a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

1. \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L.
   gluto, glutto. See {Glut}.]
   1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
   2. Fig.: One who gluts himself.
            Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville.
   3. (Zo["o]l.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo luscus}), of the
      family {Mustelid[ae]}, 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, and Asia.
   {Glutton bird} (Zo["o]l.), the giant fulmar ({Ossifraga
      gigantea}); -- called also {Mother Carey's goose}, and
      {mollymawk}.
   

2. \Glut"ton\, a.
   Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. ``Glutton souls.''
   --Dryden.
         A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry
         ministry in our days.                    --Fuller.
   

3. \Glut"ton\, v. t. & i.
   To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.]
         Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine. --Lovelace.
         Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.    --Drayton.
   

(Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel, from a word meaning "to shake out," "to squander;" and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version, "gluttonous." Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.