GLIDINGLY

Glidingly (glid'ing-li), adv. In a gliding, smooth, flowing, rapid manner.

Gliff (glif), n. [Allied to Dan. glippe, to blink.] 1. A glimpse; a short time. [Provincial English and Scotch.]-2. A fright. [Scotch.]

I ha'e gien some o' them a gliff in my day when they were coming rather near me. Sir W. Scott. Gliket (glik), n. [Same as gleek.] A sneer; a scoff; a flout; a gleek.

Glim (glim), n. [Connected with glimmer and gleam.] A light or candle. -Douse the glim, put out the light. [Slang.] Glim, Glime (glim, glim), v.i. To look out of the corner of the eye; to look askance; to glance slily. [Scotch.]

Glimmer (glim'mér), v. i. (A kind of dim. freq. of gleam. Comp. G. glimmer, a faint light; glimmen, to shine, to glow.] 1. To emit feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to give a feeble light; to flicker; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. When rosy morning glimmer'd o'er the dales. Pope. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak. Trumbull. Mild evening glimmered on the lawn.

2. To blink; to wink; to look unsteadily. [Scotch.]

Glimmer (glim'mèr), n. 1. A faint and unsteady light; feeble scattered rays of light. They are creeping up the stairs,

Now in glimmer and now in gloom. Coleridge.

2. Glitter; twinkle.

Gloss of satin, and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson. 3. In mining, mica (which see). Glimmering (glim'mèr-ing), n. 1. A faint, unsteady beaming of light; a glimmer; a gleam; a faint indication.

The forms (of religion) still remained with some glimmering of life in them, and were the evidence of what the real life had been in former times. Ruskin.

2. A faint view or notion; an inkling; a glimpse.

On the way the baggage post-boy, who had been at court, got a glimmering who they were. Sir H. Wotton. Glimpse (glimps), n. [From the stem of gleam, glimmer, &c., the p being inserted as in empty, sempster, &c. Chaucer has glimsing for glimmering Ye have some glimsing and no parfit sight.' Comp. Swiss glumsen, a spark; glimmen, glumsen, to glow under the ashes; D. glimpen, glinsen, to glow, to sparkle.] 1. A short quick light; a gleam; a momentary flash.

Such vast room in Nature,
Only to shine, yet scarce to contribute
Each orb a glimpse of light.

One glimpse of glory to my issue give.

Milton.

Dryden.

Glen.

See

Glimpse (glimps), v.i. pret. & pp. glimpsed;
ppr. glimpsing. To appear by glimpses.
On the slope
The sword rose, the hind fell, the herd was driven,
Tennyson.
Fire glimpsed.
Glimpse (glimps), v. t. To see by a glimpse
or glimpses; to catch a glimpse of; to get a
hurried view of.
Glinne, Ghlinnet (glin), n.
GLYN.
Glint (glint), v.i. [Of kindred origin with
glimpse, glimmer, glance, &c. Comp. Dan.
glimt, a gleam, glimte, to flash.] To glance;
to gleam; to pass suddenly, as a gleam of
light, a flash of lightning, or anything that
resembles it; to peep out, as a flower from
the bud. [Scotch, but adopted by English
writers.]

Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
Amid the storm.

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mings, hamsters, dormice, jerboas, the paca, squirrels, and the American flying-squirrel, and corresponds almost exactly to the Rodentia of Cuvier. Their characteristic is two flat incisors in each jaw.

Glirine (gli'rin), a. In zool. pertaining to the Glires.

Glisk (glisk), n. [Akin to A. Sax. glisian, to shine, Icel. glis, brightness.] A glimpse; a transient view. [Scotch.]

They just got a glisk o' his honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged off a gun at him. Sir W. Scott. Glissa (glis'sa), n. A fish of the tunny kind without scales.

Glissade (glis-ad'), v. i. [Fr., a slide, from glisser, to slide.] To slide; to glide.

K. and C., amid shouts of laughter, glissaded gal. lantly over the slopes of snow. Farrar.

Glist (glist), n. [From glisten.] Glimmer; mica. See MICA.

Glisten (glis'n), v. i. [A. Sax. glisnian, G. gleissen, Icel. glyssa, O.G. glizan, to shine-radically the same as glister and glitter.] To shine; to sparkle with light; especially, to shine with a fitful scintillating light; as, the glistening stars.

Richardson.

The ladies' eyes glistened with pleasure. Glisten (glis'n), n. Glitter; sparkle. Often we saw the glisten of ice.' Tennyson. [Rare.] Glister (glis'tér), v.i. [See GLISTEN.] To shine; to be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant. Shak.

All that glisters is not gold. Glister (glis'ter), n. Lustre; glitter.

The glister of the profit that was judged hereof to have ensued to Scottishmen at the first sight blinded Кнох. many men's eyes.

In a

Glister (glis'tër), n. Same as Clyster. Glisteringly (glis'ter-ing-li), adv. glistering manner; with shining lustre. Glit (glit), n. Same as Gleet. Gliter, v.i. To glitter. All the feldes gliteren up and down.' Chaucer. Glitter (glit'ter), v. i. [Comp. A. Sax. glitian, glitnian, glitenan, glisnian, but in form glitter more closely resembles Sw. glittra, Icel. glitra, G. glitzern, to shine. Akin more or less nearly to all the members of the class of words referring to light, beginning with gl.] 1. To shine with a broken and scattered light; to emit fitful and rapid flashes of light; to gleam; to sparkle; to glisten; as, a glittering sword.

Her fair large eyes 'gan glitter bright. Coleridge. To glitter is used in speaking of a multitude of shining objects, or one of great splendour, but with peculiar propriety of a shining body or bodies in motion giving frequent flashes or gleams of light. Barclay. 2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of

a court. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of IndependChoate.

ence.

Glitter (glit'ter), n. Bright sparkling light; brightness; brilliancy; splendour; lustre; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.

Milton.

Clad With what permissive glory since his fall Was left him, or false glitter. Glitterance (glit'ter-ans), n. Glitter; brightness; brilliancy. [Rare.]

It rose and fell upon the surge, Till from the glitterance of the sunny main He turn'd his aching eyes. Southey. Glitterandt (glit'ter-and), p. and a. Sparkling.

Eftsoones himselfe in glitterand arms he dight. Spenser. Glitteringly (glit'ter-ing-li), adv. In a glittering manner; with sparkling lustre. [Akin to or a form of Gloam (glöm), v.i. gloom, glum, Sc. gloum, a frown. See GLOOM.] 1. To begin to grow dark; as, it begins to gloam. [Scotch.]-2. † To be sullen. Gloaming (glöm'ing), n. [A. Sax. giómung, glommung, twilight, from glom, E. gloom (which see).] 1. Fall of the evening; the twilight. [Scotch, but adopted by English writers.]

As gloaming, the Scottish word for twilight, is far more poetical, and has been recommended by many eminent literary men, particularly by Dr. Moore in his letters to Burns, I have ventured to use it on account of its harmony. Byron.

2. Closing period; decline; as, the gloaming of life.-3. Gloominess of mind or spirit. Woman, pluck up your heart, and leave off all this gloaming. 7. Still.

Gloaming (glom'ing), a. Of or pertaining to the gloaming or twilight. Gloaming star, the evening star. [Scotch.]

GLOBE-FLOWER

Gloart (glōr), v.i. [D. gluren, to leer.] To squint; to stare impertinently. Gloat (glot), v.i. [Allied to Sw. glutta, glötta, to look at with prying eyes, to peep; G. glotzen, to stare.] 1. To cast side glances; to look furtively. Chapman.-2. To stare with admiration, eagerness, or desire; to gaze with any warm or burning passion, as malignity, lust, or avarice, either while it is being satisfied or in expectation of satisfaction. In vengeance gloating on another's pain.' Byron.

Globard (glo'bärd), n. [From glow, and term. -ard.] A glow-worm; a globird. Johnson. Globate, Globated (glob'at, glōb'at-ed), a. [L. globatus, pp. of globo, to make into a ball, from globus, a ball.] Having the form of a globe; spherical; spheroidal. Globe (glob), n. [L. globus, a ball; Fr. globe, Sp. and It. globo.] 1. A round or spherical solid body; a ball; a sphere; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the centre.-2. Anything globular or nearly so; as, the globe of the eye.-3. The earth; the terraqueous ball: usually with the definite article prefixed. -4. An artificial sphere of metal, paper, or other substance on whose convex surface is drawn a map or representation of the earth or of the heavens. That on which the several oceans, seas, continents, isles, and countries of the earth are represented is called a terrestrial globe. That which exhibits a delineation of the constellations in the heavens is called a celestial globe.-5. A body of men or other animals formed into a circle or closely gathered together.

Him round

Globe (glob), v.t. To gather round or into a circle; to conglobate.

The great stars that globed themselves in heaven. Tennyson. Globe-amaranth (glōb'am-a-ranth), n. An English name of Gomphrena globosa, nat. order Amaranthaceae, well known for its round heads of purple and white flowers. Globe-animal (glob'an-i-mal), n. A name given to certain minute globular plants of the genus Volvox, formerly supposed to be animals. Globe-daisy (glob'da-zi), n. An English name for the plant Globularia vulgaris. See

GLOBULARIA.

GLOBE-GLASS

Globe-glass (glob'glas), n. Any glass vessel of a globular form, as a vessel for holding live fish, a lamp-shade, &c.

Globe-ranunculus (glob'ra-nun-kü-lus), n. Same as Globe-flower. Globe-runner (glob'run-ér), n. A gymnastic performer who stands upon a large round ball and moves the ball with himself forward by the motion of his feet. Globe-thistle (glob'this-1), n. A popular name for plants of the genus Echinops, nat. order Compositæ, from the thistle-like foliage and the globular form of the flowerheads.

Globiferous (glob-if'ér-us), a. [L. globus, a globe, and fero, to carry ] In entom. a term employed to characterize those insects in whom the setigerous (bristle-bearing) joint of the antenna is larger than the preceding one, and globose.

Globigerina (glōb-ij'èr-i′′na), n. [L. globus, a sphere, and gero, to carry.] A family of Foraminifera, characterized by a turbinated, many-celled shell, covered with spines in the recent or fresh state, the last cell having an aperture at the umbilical angle. They still abound in our seas, and are also found fossil in the chalk and tertiary formations. See FORAMINIFERA.

Globird, Globardet (glō'bérd), n. A glowWorm. Holland

Globose (glob-ôs'), a. [L. globosus, from globus, a ball.] 1. Round; spherical; globular.

Milton.

Then form'd the moon Globose, and ev'ry magnitude of stars. 2. In bot. having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; as, a globose root. Globosity (glōb-os'i-ti), n. The quality of being globose; sphericity. "The globosity of the earth.' Ray.

Globous (glob'us), a. [L. globosus, from globus, a ball.] Round; spherical; globose. Wide over all the plain, and wider far

Than all this globous earth in plain outspread,
Such are the courts of God.
Milton.

Globular (glob ́ū-lér), a. [From globe.] Globe-shaped; having the form of a small ball or sphere; round; spherical; as, globular atoms. Globular chart, a chart of the surface, or some part of the surface, of the earth on the principles of the globular projection-Globular projection, that projection of the sphere in which the eye is supposed to be vertically over the centre of the plane of projection, and at a distance from the surface of the sphere equal to the sine of 45° of one of its great circles. If straight lines be then drawn from the point of view to the interior surface of the opposite hemisphere their intersection with the plane of projection will be a perspective representation of it. This projection gives but a small distortion. See PROJECTION. -Globular sailing, a term of navigation employed to denote the sailing from one place to another, over an arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between two places.

Globularia (glob-ŭ-lā′ri-a), n. A small genus of perennial herbs or shrubs, formerly considered as the type of a separate order, Globulariaceæ, but now placed in Selaginacere. They have small blue flowers, usually in terminal globular heads (hence the name), and are mostly natives of the Mediterranean region. G. vulgaris is a common alpine plant, and is sometimes called globe-daisy or blue daisy. G. salicina is a shrubby species of the Canary Islands with axillary flower-heads. Globularity (glob-ú-laʼri-ti), n. State of being globular; sphericity. Globularly (glob'û-ler-li), adv. lar or spherical form; spherically. Globularness (glob'u-lér-nes), n. The quality of being globular; sphericity. Globule (glob'ül), n. [Fr; L. globulus, dim. of globus, a ball] A little globe; a small particle of matter of a spherical form.

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gredient of the blood globules, and also occurring, mixed with albumen, in the cells of the crystalline lens of the eye (whence it is called also Crystallin). It resembles albumen, differing from it, however, in being precipitated both from acid and alkaline solutions by exact neutralization, and in being completely thrown down from its solutions by carbonic acid gas.-2. In bot. a term applied by Turpin to all minute vesicular granules of a vegetable nature, which he considers the organic elements of vegetation, and by Kieser to the green globules lying among the cells of a cellular tissue. Globulism (glob'ül-izm), n. In med. a term sometimes applied to the doctrine of homeopathy.

Globulose, Globulous (glob'ül-ōs, glob'ülus), a. Having the form of a small sphere; round; globular.

The whiteness of such globulous particles proceeds from the air included in the froth. Boyle.

The

Globulousness (glob'ûl-us-nes), n. state or quality of being globulous. Globus Hystericus (globus his-te'rik-us), n. In pathol. a painful sensation in hysteria and hypochondriasis as of a ball being fixed in the throat. This results from spasm in the upper part of the œsophagus or gullet, preventing the air or gas which rises up in this tube escaping, and so producing a swelling which presses on the trachea or windpipe.

Globy (glob'i), a. Resembling or pertaining to a globe; round; orbicular.

Your hair, whose globy rings He flying curls, and crispeth with his wings. B. Jonson. Glochidate, Glochidiate (glō'kid-at, glōki'di-at), a. [Gr. glochis, glochin, a point.] In bot. furnished with bristles or rigid hairs, the ends of which are hooked back, or barbed like a fish-hook. Gray. Glode (glód), old pret. of glide.

Like sparkes of fire that from the anvil glode.
Spenser.

Glolocarp (gloi'ō-kärp), n. [Gr. gloios, gummy, slippery, and karpos, fruit.] In bot. the quadruple spore of some algals. Gloiocladieæ (gloi-o-kla-di'ē-ė), n. pl. [Gr. gloios, gummy, slippery, and klados, a shoot of a tree.] A sub-order of sea weeds belonging to the nat. order Cryptonemiaceae. The fronds are composed of filaments lying apart from one another and surrounded by a copious gelatine.

Glombe, tv.i. [See GLOAM.] To look gloomy.

Chaucer.

Glome (glōm), n. [L. glomus, a ball.] In bot. a roundish head of flowers. Smart. Glomerate (glom'èr-at), v.t. [L. glomero, glomeratum, from glomus, glomeris, a ball.] To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads. Glomerate (glom'èr-at), a. 1. In anat. a term applied to a gland which is formed of a congeries of sanguineous vessels, having no cavity, but furnished with an excretory duct, as the lachrymal and mammary glands. 2. In bot. congregated; gathered into a round heap or head; growing in massive forms or in dense clusters.

Glomerating (glom'ér-at-ing), p. and a. Forming a mass or glomeration; winding. 'A river which, from Caucasus, after many glomerating dances, increases Indus.' Sir T. Herbert. Glomeration (glom-ér-a'shon), n. [L. glomeratio, from glomero, glomeratum. See GLOMERATE. ] 1. The act of gathering, winding, or forming into a ball or spherical body; conglomeration.-2. A body formed into a ball

The rainbow consisteth of a glomeration of small drops, which cannot fall but from the air that is very low. Bacon.

Glomeridæ (glo-meʼri-dē), n. pl. [L. glomus, glomeris, a ball, and Gr. eidos, resemblance.] The wood-louse millipeds, a family of Arthropoda, resembling wood-lice, belonging to the order Chilognatha and class Myriapoda. Their integument is chitinous and hard; they are of an oval form, and have the power of rolling themselves up into a ball. One species, called the pill-milliped or pillworm from its resemblance to a pill, was formerly used in medicine. Glomerous (glom'èr-us), a. [L. glomerosus, from glomus, glomeris, a ball.] Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. Blount. Glomerule (glom'èr-ül), n. [L. glomerulus, from glomus, glomeris, a ball.] In bot. (a) a cluster of flower-heads inclosed in a common involucre, as in Echinops. (b) A soredium (which see). Hoblyn.

GLORIFY

Gloom (glöm), n. [A. Bax. glom, gloom, twilight, glömung, gloaming. Allied to gleam, glimmer, &c. See GLEAM, GLOAM.] 1. Obscurity; partial darkness; thick shade; as, the gloom of a forest or the gloom of midnight.

All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air. Milton. Hence-2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; dejection, anger, sullenness, and the like, or an aspect indicative of such feelings; a depressed or gloomy state of affairs; dismal prospect; as, a gloom overspreads the mind. She will call That three-days-long presageful gloom of yours No presage, but the same mistrustful mood That makes you seem less noble than yourself, Теппузон.

A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevail by turns; the nation loses its relish for peace and prosperity. Burke.

SYN. Darkness, obscurity, shade, dimness, cloudiness, heaviness, dejection, depression, dulness, melancholy, sadness. Gloom (glöm), v.i. 1. To shine obscurely or imperfectly; to appear dimly; to be seen in an imperfect or waning light; to glimmer. She drew her casement curtain by,

And glanced athwart the glcoming flats. Tennyson, 2. To be melancholy or dejected; to look gloomy; to appear sad, gloomy, or dismal; to frown; to lower.

There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
Goldsmith.

Gloom (glöm), v.t. 1. To obscure; to make gloomy or dark; to darken. Black yew gloomed the stagnant air.' Tennyson.

2. To fill with gloom or sadness; to make gloomy or sad.

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennyson. Gloomily (glöm'i-li), adv. [From gloomy.] In a gloomy manner; obscurely; dimly; darkly; dismally; sullenly.

Gloominess (glom'i-nes), n. The condition or quality of being gloomy; obscurity; darkness; dismalness; sadness; dejection; sullenness; heaviness.

The gloominess in which sometimes the minds of the best men are involved, very often stands in need of such little incitements to mirth and laughter as are apt to disperse melancholy. Addison.

Glooming (glöm'ing), a. Gloomy; lowering; dismal; depressing.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings. Shak. Glooming (glöm'ing), n. [See GLOAMING, GLOOM.] Twilight; gloaming. [Rare and poetical.]

When the faint glooming in the sky,
First lightened into day.

Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit, Spread the light haze along the river-shores. Tennyson.

Gloomy (glöm'i), a. [From gloom.] 1. Obscure, imperfectly illuminated; dark. Hid in gloomiest shade.' Milton. - 2. Affected with, characterized by, or expressing gloom; wearing the aspect of sorrow; melancholy; dejected; heavy of heart; dismal; doleful; as, a gloomy countenance or state of mind; a gloomy temper.

The reign of Foscari followed, gloomy with pestilence and war. Ruskin.

3. Of a dark complexion. [Rare.]-SYN. Obscure, dark, dim, dusky, dismal, cloudy, sullen, morose, melancholy, sad, downcast, depressed, dejected, disheartened.

Gloppen (glop'pn), v. t. [Icel. glupna, to look downcast.] To astonish; to surprise. [Provincial English.]

Gloret (glor), v.i. To glare; to glower. Halliwell.

Gloriable (glo'ri-a-bl), a. Glorious, or to be gloried in.

Job, of all we read, was the most confident of his own integrity, which, indeed, was rare and gloriable. Feltham.

Gloriationt (glō-ri-ä'shon), n. [L. gloriatio, from glorior, gloriatus, to glory, to boast, from gloria. See GLORY.] Vainglory; a feeling of triumph.

Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power above the power of him that contendeth with us. Hobbes. Gloried (glō'rid), a. [See GLORY.] Illustrious; honourable. Your once gloried friend.' Milton.

Glorification (glo'ri-fi-ka"shon), n. 1. The act of glorifying or giving glory or of ascribing honours to. The glorification_of God for the works of the creation.' Bp. Taylor.-2. The state of being glorified, or raised to glory; exaltation to honour and dignity; elevation; glory; aggrandisement. Glorify (glo'ri-fi), v.t. pret. & pp. glorified; ppr. glorifying. [Fr. glorifier, L. gloria,

GLORIOLE

glory, and facio, to make.] 1. To give or ascribe glory to; to praise; to magnify and honour in worship; to ascribe honour to, in thought or words. Ps. lxxxvi. 9.

God is glorified when such his excellency above all things is with due admiration acknowledged. Hooker. 2. To make glorious; to exalt to glory, or to celestial happiness.

The God of our fathers hath glorified his son Jesus. Acts i. 13.

3. To procure honour or praise to; to honour; to extol.

Whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, him they set up and glorify. Spenser. Gloriole (glo'ri-ol), n. [Formed on type of aureole.] A circle, as of rays, represented in ancient paintings as surrounding the heads of saints: in the extract, used figuratively. See GLORY, 8.

Sappho, with that gloriole

Of ebon hair on calmed brows. E. B. Browning. Gloriosa (glo-ri-o'sa), n. A genus of tuberous-rooted climbing herbs of the nat. order Liliacea, so named from the splendid appearance of its flowers. They have branched stems and scattered opposite or whorled leaves, which are narrow and acuminate, terminating in a tendril. The flowers are mostly of a beautiful red and yellow colour, having six long lanceolate undulated segments, which are entirely reflexed. G. superba, a native of India and tropical Africa, is cultivated in our hothouses. Glorious (glō'ri-us), a. [Fr. glorieux, L. gloriosus, from gloria. See GLORY.] 1. Characterized by attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; illustrious; of exalted excellence and splendour; noble; excellent; renowned; celebrated; very honourable.

Let us remember we are Cato's friends,

And act like men who claim that glorious title.
Addison.

2. Boastful; self-exulting; haughty; ostentatious; vainglorious.

Thou shalt have strokes, and strokes, thou glorious inan,

Till thou breath'st thinner air than that thou talk'st. Beau. & FI

3. Eager for, or striving after, glory or distinction.

SYN. Illustrious, eminent, noble, excellent, renowned, celebrated, magnificent, grand, splendid.

Gloriously (glō'ri-us-li), adv. In a glorious manner; as, (a) splendidly; illustriously; with great renown or dignity.

Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glori ously. Ex. xv. 6.

(b) Boastfully; ostentatiously.

I protest to you, signior, I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation. B. Jonson.

(c) Hilariously; elatedly.

Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! Gloriously drunk obey the important call! Cowper. Gloriousness (glō'ri-us-nes), n. The state or quality of being glorious. Glory (glo'ri), n. [L. gloria, fame. The word is allied to Gr. kleos, fame, kleo, to celebrate, klyō, to hear; or, as Pott is inclined to think, to L. gnarus, knowing, gnosco or nosco, to know, Gr. gignóskó.] 1. Praise, honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; honourable fame; renown; celebrity. Glory to God in the highest. Luke ii. 14.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray. 2. A state of greatness or renown; state; pomp; magnificence.

Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Mat. vi. 29.

3. Brightness; lustre; splendour; brilliancy. The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky. Pope. 4. The happiness of heaven; celestial bliss. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. Ixxiii. 24.

5. Distinguished honour or ornament; that which honours or makes renowned; that of which one does or may boast; an object of which one is or may be proud. 'Babylon, the glory of kingdoms.' Is. xiii. 19.

Think it no glory to swell in tyranny. Sidney. His disgrace is to be called boy; but his glory is to subdue men.

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6. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance; vainglory. On death-beds some in conscious glory iie, Since of the doctor in the mode they die. Young. 7. Generous pride; praiseworthy desire. The success of those wars was too notable to be unknown to your ears, which all worthy fame hath glory to come unto. Sir P. Sidney.

8. In painting, a combination of the nimbus and aureola, that is, of the luminous halo (nimbus) encircling the head of holy persons, and the halo (aureola) encompassing the whole person. Popularly, it is frequently confounded with the nimbus. See AUREOLA, NIMBUS. Glory (glo'ri), vi pret. & pp. gloried; ppr. glorying [L. glorior, from gloria.] 1. To exult with joy; to rejoice.

2. To be boastful; to have pride. No one... should glory in his prosperity. Richardson. Gloset (glōz), v. t. To gloss over. See GLOZE Gloser (glōz'ér), n. Same as Glosser. Gloss (glos), n. [Icel. glossi, flame, brightness; glossa, to blaze, to sparkle, to glow; G. glotzen, to shine, to glance; M.H.G. glose, glow, glance. Allied to glass, glow, &c. But in the second meaning the word may really be the same as in the next article.] 1. Brightness or lustre of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; sheen; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. Hath sullied all his gloss.' Shak.

Gless of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson. 2. A specious appearance or representation; external show that may mislead opinion.

It is no part of my secret meaning to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked Hooker.

truth doth afford.

Gloss (glos), n. [From L. glossa, an obsolete or foreign word that requires explanation (see extract below), Gr. glossa, the tongue, a language.] 1. Remark intended to illus trate some point of difficulty in an author, especially writing in a foreign tongue; interpretation; comment; explanation; an explanatory note on the margin or between the lines of a book.

All this without a gloss or comment,

He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. A gloss, glossa, properly meant a word from a foreign language, or an obsolete or poetical word, or whatever requires explanation. It was afterwards used for the interpretation itself.... In the 12th cen tury it was extended from a single word to an entire expository sentence. The first glosses were interlinear; they were afterwards placed in the margin, and extended finally in some instances to a sort of running commentary on an entire book. Hallam. 2. An interpretation artfully specious.

No written laws can be so plain, so pure, But wit, and gloss, and malice may obscure. Dryden. Gloss (glos), v.t. [The last two words have both had an influence on the meanings of this verb, and it is not easy to say what quota of meaning belongs to each.] 1. To give a superficial lustre to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth by the calender; to gloss mahogany.

The same ill habits, the same follies too,
Gloss'd over only with a saintlike show.

Dryden.

2. To explain; to render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate.

In parchment then, large as his fields, he draws Assurances, big as gloss'd civil laws. Donne.

3. To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious representation.

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

Philips.

Gloss (glos), v. i. 1. To comment; to write or make explanatory remarks.

No man can gloss upon this text after that manner. Dr. H. More. 2. To make sly remarks or insinuations. Her equals first observed her growing zeal, And, laughing, glossed that Abra served so well. Prior.

[In this example the verb is really transitive, with a clause for its object.] Glossanthrax (glos-an'thraks), n. [Gr. glossa, the tongue, and anthrax, a carbuncle.] A disease in horses and cattle, characterized by malignant carbuncles in the mouth, and especially on the tongue. Glossarial (glos - să'ri-al), a. Relating to, connected with, or consisting in a glossary. 'Glossarial index.' Boswell. Glossarist (glos'a-rist), n. 1. A writer of a gloss or commentary. 2. One who compiles a glossary or a dictionary of obscure, antiquated, or technical words. Glossary (glos'a-ri), n. [L.L. glossarium, from Gr. glossa, the tongue.] A vocabulary

GLOSSY

of glosses or explanations of the meaning of words used by any author, especially by an old author, or one writing in a provincial dialect, or of words occurring in a special class of works, of the technical terms of any art or science, of a dialect, and the like; a limited and partial dictionary; as, Tyrwhitt's Glossary to Chaucer; a glossary to Burns' poems; the Oxford Glossary of Architecture.

Shakspere stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the old country. F. R. Lowell. -Vocabulary, Dictionary, Glossary. See

under VOCABULARY. Glossator (glos-at'èr), n. [Fr. glossateur, from Gr. glissa, the tongue, a language.] A writer of comments; a commentator.

The Jewish doctors understood the text better than Gratian, or John Semeca his glossator.

Bp. Barlow. Glosser (glos'èr), n. A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.

Savigny defends his favourite glossers in the best manner he can; but, without much acquaintance with the ancient glossers, one may presume to think that in explaining the Pandects, their deficiencies. must require a perpetual exercise of our lenity and patience. Hallam.

Glosser (glos'èr), n. A polisher; one who gives a lustre. Glossic (glos'ik), n. [From Gr. glössa, a tongue.] A phonetic system of spelling invented by Mr. A. J. Ellis, intended to be used concurrently with the existing English orthography (Nomic) in order to remedy some of its defects without changing its form or detracting from its value. following is a specimen of Glossic:

The

Ingglish Glosik konvai'z whotever proanunsiai'shon iz intended bei dhi reiter. Glosik buoks kan dhairfoar bee maid too impaar't risee vd aurthoa ipi too aul reederz. A. J. Ellis.

Glossily (glos'i-li), adv. In a glossy manner. Glossiness (glos'i-nes), n. [From glossy.] The quality of being glossy; the lustre or brightness of a smooth surface.

Glossist (glos'ist), n. A writer of comments; a glosser. Milton.

Glossitis (glos-i'tis), n.

[Gr. glossa, the tongue, and term. -itis, indicating inflammation. ] In med. inflammation of the

tongue.

Glossly (glos'li), a. Appearing glossy or specious; bright. Cowley.

Glossocele (glos'õ-sel), n. [Gr. glossa, the tongue, and kēlē, a tumour.] Swelled tongue.

Glossocomium (glos'so-co-mi-um), n. [Gr. glossa, a tongue, and komeō, to guard.] Originally, a small case used by the ancients for holding the tongues of their wind-instruments. By extension it was applied to the box or case in which fractured limbs were kept.

Glossocomon (glos-soʻkom-on), n. A name which has been sometimes applied to a machine composed of several toothed wheels with pinions, and used for raising great weights.

Glossographer (glos-og'ra-fèr), n. [Gr.glōssa, the tongue, and grapho, to write.] A writer of glosses; a commentator; a scholiast. Blount.

Pertain

Glossographical (glos-o-graf'ik-al), a. Pertaining to glossography. Glossography (glos og'ra-fi), n. 1. The writing of comments for illustrating an author.-2. In anat. a description of the tongue. Dunglison. Glossological (glos-o-loj'ik-al), a. ing to glossology. Glossologist (glos-ol'o-jist), n. [Gr. glössa, the tongue, and logos, a discourse.] 1. One who defines and explains terms.-2. A philologist; a student of or one versed in glossology.

Glossology (glos-ol'o-ji), n. 1. The definition and explanation of terms, as of a science; technology. - 2. The science of language; universal grammar; comparative philology; glottology.

Glossology was mainly brought into being by inquiries concerning the original language spoken by man. Whowell. Glossopteris (glos-op'tè-ris), n. [Gr. glössa, the tongue, and pteris, a fern.] A term applied to a genus of fossil ferns found in the oolite: now called Sagenopteris. They received their name from their tongueshaped leaves.

Glossotomy (glos-ot'o-mi), n. [Gr. glossa, the tongue, and tome, a cutting, from temno, to cut.] In anat, dissection of the tongue. Glossy (glos'i), a. 1. Smooth and shining;

GLO'STER

reflecting lustre from a smooth surface; highly polished; as, glossy silk; a glossy raven; a glossy plum.-2. Having a fair or specious appearance; plausible.

He (Lord Chesterfield), however, with that glossy duplicity which was his constant study, affected to be quite unconcerned. Boswell.

Glo'ster, Gloucester (glos'ter), n. A kind of cheese for which the county of Gloucester is famous. There are two varieties, known as single and double, the latter being made of the richer milk. Gloton, n. A glutton. Chaucer. Glottal (glot'al), a. Glottalite (glot'al-it), n. Relating to the glottis. river Clyde, and Gr. lithos, a stone.] A [L. Glota, the mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of lime and magnesia, or of lime and alumina, found at Port-Glasgow on the Clyde. It is of a white colour, with a vitreous lustre. Glottis (glot'is), n. [Gr. glottis, from glotta, the tongue ] 1. The opening at the upper part of the trachea or windpipe, and between the vocal chords, which, by its dilatation and contraction, contributes to the modulation of the voice. -2. In music, a small tongue or reed, by means of which ancient wind-instruments were sounded. Glottological (glot-o-loj'ik-al), a. Pertaining to glottology.

Glottology (glot-ol'o-ji), n.
tongue, language, and logos, discourse.] The
[Gr. glotta, the
science of language; philology. Written also
Glossology.

Glour, v.i. and n.

Glout (glout), v.i.

See GLOWER.

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Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. Dryden.
Fair ideas flow,

Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow. Pope.
Her face glow'd as I look'd at her. Tennyson.

4. To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, &c.

If you have never glowed with gratitude to the Author of the Christian revelation, you know nothing of Christianity. Buckminster.

5. To burn or be vehement, as angry feelings; to rage, as passion.

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Glow † (glo), v.t. To heat so as to shine. Dryden.

Pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem Toglow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak. Glow (glo), n. 1. Shining heat, or white heat; incandescence.-2. Brightness of colour; redness; as, the glow of health in the cheeks. A waving glow his bloomy beds display, Blushing in bright diversities of day.

Pope.

Mrs. Western had changed her mind on the very point of departure; and had been in what is vulgarly called a glouting humour ever since. Fielding. Glout (glout), v.i. To gaze attentively;

to stare.

Whosoever attempteth anything for the publike the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye.-Translators (ef Bible) to the Reader. Ed. 1613. Glove (gluv), n. [A. Sax. glof; whence probably Icel. gló, a glove. Probably from ge, and lofa (not in A. Sax.), hand, Goth. lofa, Sc. loof, Icel. lofi, the palm of the hand. ] A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter circumstance distinguishes the glove from the mitten-To bite the glove, to indicate determined and mortal hostility.

Stern Rutherford right little said,

But but his glove, and shook his head. Sir W. Scott.
-To throw down the glove, to challenge to
single combat; to take up the glove, to ac-
cept the challenge.

Glove (gluv), v.t. pret. & pp. gloved; ppr.
gloving. To cover with or as with a glove.
Glove-band (gluv'band), n. A band passing
over the glove at the wrist to secure it.
Called also Glove-clasp.
Glove-clasp (gluv'klasp), n.

band.-2. An instrument with a little hook
1. A glove-
at the end for buttoning gloves.
Glove-money,

Glove-silver (gluv'mun-né,
gluv'sil-ver), n. A gratuity given to servants
ostensibly to buy them gloves; also, in law,
extraordinary rewards formerly given to
officers of courts, &c., and money given by
a sheriff of a county in which no offenders
were left for execution, to the clerk of assize
and the judges' officers.
Glover (gluv'er), n.

One whose occupation

is to make or sell gloves. Glover's-stitch (gluv'èrz-stich), n. In surg. a peculiar stitch employed in sewing up a wound.

Glove-stretcher (gluv'strech-ér), n. instrument for fully opening or widening An the fingers of gloves that they may be more easily drawn upon the hand.

Glow (glo), v.i. [A Sax. glowan, to glow as a fire, the same word as D. gloeijen, G. glühen, O.G. glojan, gluojan, to glow; Icel. glóa, to glitter; Sw. gloa, to sparkle; compare also W. glu, that which is bright; Armor. glaouen, a live coal. Allied to glance, gleam, gloom, gloaming, glass, gloss, &c.] 1. To burn with an intense or white heat and especially without flame; to give forth bright light and heat; to be incandescent.-2. To feel great heat of body; to be hot, as the skin; to give a burning sensation.

Did not his temples glow

In the same sultry winds and scorching heats! Addison.

3. To exhibit a strong bright colour; to be red or brilliant, as with heat; to be bright or red, as with animation, blushes, or the like. To glow with shame of your proShak.

ceedings.

Milton.

Glowworm (Lampyris noctiluca).

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Gloxinias.

[Named after

GLUE-POT

by the corolla approaching to bell-shaped, the upper lip shortest and two-lobed, the lower three-lobed, with the middle lobe largest, and also by the summit of the style being rounded and hollowed. The species are natives of tropical America, whence they were introduced into this country early last century. They are now among the greatest ornaments of our hothouses, owing to their richly coloured leaves and their ample, graceful, delicately tinted flowers. Gloze (glōz), v. i. pret. & pp. glozed; ppr. glozing. [O.E. glose, gloss, interpretation; the meaning being influenced by gloss, lustre. See GLOSS-both words.] 1. To flatter; to wheedle; to talk smoothly or flatteringly. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd. Milton. A false glosing parasite. South.

2. To explain; to expound; to gloss; to comment.

Paris and Troilus, you have both said well,
And on the cause and question now in hand
Have gloz'd, but superficially.

Shak.

Gloze (glōz), n. 1. Flattery; adulation. The glozes of a fawning spirit.' B. Jonson.2. Specious show; gloss.

Now to plain dealing, lay these glozes by. Shak. Gloze (glōz), v. t. To gloss over; to put a fair face upon; to extenuate. By glozing the evil that is in the world.' Glozer (glōz'èr), n. Is. Taylor. A flatterer. Glucic (glu'sik), a. [Gr. glykys or glukus, sweet.] Of or pertaining to or obtained from sugar. Glucic acid (C12H1809), an acid produced by the action of alkalies or acids on sugar. It is a colourless, amorphous substance, is very soluble in water, attracts rapidly the moisture of the air, and its solution has a decidedly sour taste. Glucina (glü-si'na), n. [Gr. glykys or glukus, neutral salts are soluble. All its sweet.] (Be O.) The only oxide of the metal glucinum or beryllium. Pure glucina is white, tasteless, without odour, and quite insoluble in water, but soluble in the liquid fixed alkalies.

Glucinum (glü-si'num), n. [From Gr. glykys or glukus, sweet.] A white metal, of specific gravity 21; it belongs to the group of the alkaline earths, and is prepared from beryl -hence the name of Beryllium which is often applied to it. The salts of this metal have a sweet taste. Sym. Be. Glucose (glu-kös), n. [Gr. glykys or glukus, At. wt. 9.4. sweet.] (C6H12O6) A variety of sugar, less sweet than cane-sugar, produced from dried grapes, cane-sugar, dextrin, starch, cellulose, &c., by the action of acids, certain ferments, and other reagents, and by processes going on in living plants. It also occurs in the urine of persons suffering from one variety of diabetes. There are two varieties of it, distinguished by their action on polarized light, viz. dextro-glucose, which turns the plane of polarization to the right; and levo-glucose, which turns it to the left. When heated up to 400° it becomes caramel, and is used by cooks and confectioners as colouring matter. Called also Grape-sugar, StarchGlucosuria (glü-ko-su'ri-a), n. [E. glucose, sugar, Diabetic Sugar, &c. grape-sugar, and urea, for L. urina, urine.] In pathol. a name for one form of the disease commonly called diabetes, from its most characteristic symptom, namely, sugar in the urine.

Glue (glu), n. [O.Fr. glu; L. gluten, from obs. gluo, to draw together. Cog. W. glyd, viscous matter.] Common or impure gelatine, obtained by boiling animal substances, as the skins, hoofs, &c., of animals, with water; used as a cement for uniting pieces of wood or other material. The name is also applied to other viscous substances. -Marine glue, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with some shellac added, used for joining the timbers of a ship.

Glue (glü), v.t. pret. & pp. glued; ppr. glu-
ing. 1. To join with glue or a viscous sub-
stance; to stick or hold fast.

That glues my lips, and will not let me speak. Shak.
This cold congealed blood

2. To unite; to hold together, as if by glue;
to fix; to rivet.

She now began to glue herself to his favour with the grossest adulation. Smollett.

GLUER

other for dissolving glue. The inner pot contains the glue; the outer is filled with water, the boiling of which causes the glue

to melt.

Gluer (glu'ér), n. One who or that which glues; one who cements with glue. Gluey (glü'i), a. Viscous; glutinous. Glueyness (glú'i-nes), n. The state or quality of being gluey.

Gluish (glu'ish), a. Having the nature of glue.

Glum (glum), a. [Akin to gloom, and Sc. gloum, a frown.] Frowning; sullen. [Colloq.]

See how glum the old nipcheese looks. Has he heard the news, think you, messmates? Sala. Glum+ (glum), n. Sullenness. Glum, tv.i. To gloom; to look sullen or glum. Chaucer.

Glumaceous (glu-ma'shus), a. Having glumes. The grasses (Gramines) and the Cyperaceae are sometimes called glumaceous or glumiferous plants.

Glumal (glüm'al), a. In bot. possessing or characterized by a glume.

Glumales (glū-mā'lēz), n. pl. In bot. an alliance of monocotyledons, which, according to the most recent definition, contains plants having a free ovary uni-ovulate (or with uni-ovulate cells), flowers usually in heads or spikelets within imbricate bracts or glumes, perianth either more or less scarious or glume-like, and usually concealed within the bracts, and albuminous seeds. In it are included the Eriocauloneæ, Centrolepideæ, and Restiaceæ, in which the ovary is often more than one-celled and the ovule pendulous; and the Gramineæ and Cyperaceæ, in which the ovary is always one-celled and the ovule erect.

Glume (glüm), n. [L. gluma, a hull or husk, from glubo, to peel. Akin to Gr. glyphō, to hollow out.] In bot. the imbricate scalelike bract inserted on the axis of the spikelet in Gramineæ and Cyperaceae; the husk or chaff of grain, now called the palea or pale. See GLUMALES.

Glumella (glü-mel'la), n. [L., dim. of gluma. See GLUME.] The inner husk of grasses; the innermost scale-like envelope of the ovarium.

Glumelle (glü'mel), n. [Fr., dim. of glume.] Same as Glumella.

Glumiferæ (glûm-if′ê-rē), n. pl. Same as Glumales.

Glumiferous (glüm-if'èr-us), a. In bot. bearing glumes; of or pertaining to the Glumiferæ.

Glummy+ (glum'i), a. [See GLOOM.] Dark; gloomy; dismal.

Such casual blasts may happen, as are most to be feared, when the weather waxeth dark and glummy. Knight, 1580. Glumness (glum'nes), n. The condition or quality of being glum; sullenness. Trollope. Glumous (glü'mus), a. In bot, having a filiform receptacle, with a common glume at the base.

Glump (glump), v.i. To show sullenness by one's manner; to appear sulky. [Colloq.] To glump is still used in familiar language for sitting sullen and out of humour. Wedgwood.

Glumpy (glump'i), a. Sullen; sulky. (Colloq.]

He was glumpy enough when I called. T. Hook. Glunch (glunsh), v.i. [This may have the same origin with gloum, if not allied to Icel glenska, scoffing, jeering. Jamieson.] To frown; to look sour; to be in a dogged humour. [Scotch.]-To glunch and gloom, to look dogged or sullen. Glunch (glunsh), n. A sudden angry look or glance; a look implying dislike, disdain, anger, displeasure, or prohibition; a frown. [Scotch. ]

Glut (glut), v.t. pret. & pp. glutted; ppr. glutting. L glutio, to swallow; whence also englut, glutton.] 1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge.

Though ev'ry drop of water swear against it,
And gape at wid'st to glut him.

Shak.

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Disgorging foul Their devilish glut, chain'd thunderbolts, and hail Of iron globes. Milton.

2. Plenty even to loathing. A glut of study and retirement.' Pope.

He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights. Sir R. L'Estrange.

3. More than enough; superabundance; specifically, in com. an over-supply of any commodity in the market; a supply above the demand.

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. Macaulay.

4. Anything that fills or obstructs a passage. 'Some glut, stop, or other means.' Woodward. 5. A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks. [Provincial.]-6. Naut. (a) a piece of wood employed as a fulcrum in order to obtain a better lever power in raising any body; or a piece of wood inserted beneath the thing to be raised in order to prevent its recoil when freshening the nip of the lever. (b) A piece of canvas sewed into the centre of a sail near the head; it has an eyelet-hole in its middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through. Glutæus (glu-te'us), n. [L., from Gr. gloutos, the buttock.] In anat. a name common to the three muscles of the hip which form part of the buttocks. The gluteus maximus is that upon which a person sits, and which serves to extend the thigh, assisting in progression and in standing; the gluteus medius can move the thigh away from the body and also turn it outwards or inwards; and the gluteus minimus assists the others. Gluteal (glü-te'al), a. [See last art.] In anat. of or pertaining to certain parts connected with the buttocks.-Gluteal artery, a branch of the hypogastric or internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal muscles. Gluteal muscles, three large muscles on each side, which make up the fleshy part of the buttocks.

Gluten (glü'ten), n. [L. See GLUE.] A tough elastic substance of a grayish colour, which becomes brown and brittle by drying, found in the flour of wheat and other grain. It contributes much to the nutritive quality of flour, and gives tenacity to its paste. A similar substance is found in the juices of certain plants. Gluten consists of gliadine, vegetable fibrine, and caseine, with sometimes a fatty substance.

Gluten exhibits the same percentage composition as the albuminoids; it is not, however, a simple proximate principle, but may be separated into two distinct substances, one soluble and the other insoluble in alcohol; and, according to Ritthausen, the por tion soluble in alcohol may be further resolved into two substances, one called mucin, or vegetable casein, the other glutin, gliadin, or vegetable gela. tin; the portion insoluble in alcohol is called vege table fibrin. Watts, Dict. of Chem. Gluten-bread (glü'ten-bred), n. A kind of bread in which there is a large proportion of gluten. It is used in diabetes. Gluteus (glü-tē'us), n. Same as Glutæus. Glutinate (glü'tin-at), v.t. pret. & pp. glutinated; ppr. glutinating. [L. glutino, glutinatum, from gluten, glue.] To unite with glue; to cement. Bailey. Glutination (glü-tin-ä'shon), n. The act of Glutinative (glu'tin-at-iv), a. Having the glutinating or uniting with glue. quality of cementing; tenacious. Glutine, Glutin (glu'tin), n. Gliadine (which see). Glutinose (glu'tin-os), a. Same as Glutin

ous.

The same as

Glutinosity (glu-tin-os'i-ti), n. The state or quality of being glutinous; viscousness. Glutinous (glü'tin-us), a. [L. glutinosus, from gluten. See GLUE.] 1. Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue.

Next this marble venom'd seat,

Smear'd with gums of glutinous heat. Milton. 2. In bot. besmeared with a slippery moisture; as, a glutinous leaf. Glutinousness (glu'tin-us-nes), n. The state or quality of being glutinous; viscosity; viscidity; tenacity. Cheyne. Glutman (glut'man), n. pl. Glutmen (glut'men). A custom-house term for an extra officer employed when a glut of work demands assistance.

Gluts (gluts), n. The Oxfordshire local name for the broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris).

Glutton (glut'n), n. [Fr. glouton; L.L. gluto, glutto, from L. glutio, to swallow.] 1. One who indulges to excess in eating, or eating and drinking; one who gorges himself with food; a gormandizer.2. One who indulges or is eager in anything to excess.

GLYCOGEN

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville. 3. In zool. the Gulo arcticus, a carnivorous quadruped, about the size of a large badger, and intermediate between the bear family (Ursidae) and the weasels (Mustelidae), resembling the former family in general structure and the latter in dentition. It inhabits Northern Europe and America, and is known also by the name of Wolverene or Wolverine. The glutton is slow and deficient in agility, but persevering, cunning, fierce, and of great strength. It prefers putrid flesh, and has an extremely fetid odour. The fur is valuable, that from Siberia being preferred from its being of a glossy black. It receives its name from its voracity, which, however, has been greatly exaggerated. Glutton + (glut'n), a. Of or belonging to a glutton; gluttonous. Glutton souls. Dry

den.

A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hun. gry ministry in our days. Fuller. Glutton (glut'n), v.i. To eat to excess; to gormandize; to indulge the appetite to ex

cess.

Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. Drayton Glutton (glut'n), v.t. To overfill, as with food; to glut.

Then after all your fooling, fat, and wine,

Glutton'd at last, return, at home to pine. Lovelace. Gluttonish (glut'n-ish), a. Gluttonous. Sir P. Sidney. [Rare.]

Gluttonize (glut'n-iz), v.i. To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious. Hallywell. [Rare ] Gluttonous (glut'n-us), a. 1. Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; insatiable. This gluttonous age. Raleigh.

When they would smile and fawn upon his debts. And take down th' interest in their glutt'nous maws. Shak

2. Characterized by or consisting in excessive eating.

Well observe

The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight. Milton. Gluttonously (glut'n-us-li), adv. In a glut tonous manner; with the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating.

Gluttony (glut'n-i), n. The act or practice of a glutton; excess in eating, or eating and drinking; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity; luxury of the table.

Gluttony, a vice in a great fortune, a curse in a small. Holyday. Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts. Millon. Gluy (glü'i), a. Same as Gluey. Glyceria (gli-se'ri-a), n. [Gr. glykeros, glykys, sweet.] A genus of grasses, chiefly dis tinguished from Poa by having the flowers in more linear subcylindrical spikelets. There are about forty species, two or three of which are found in Britain, as G. aquatica, which is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the largest of our grasses, and is eaten by cattle; and G. fluitans, the seeds of which are collected and used as an article of food under the name of manna-croup, furnishing a light nutritious aliment for invalids. In chem. a compound ether of the triatomic alcohol gly. cerine. Some of the glycerides exist ready formed, as natural fats, in the bodies of plants and animals, and many more may be produced artificially by the action of acid upon glycerine.

Glyceride (gli'se-rid), n.

Glycerine, Glycerin (gli'sé-rin), n. [From Gr. glykys, sweet.] (CHO) A transparent colourless liquid with a sweet taste, obtained from natural fats by saponification with alkalies or by the action of superheated steam.

Glycerizine (gli-sê-riʼzin), n. Same as Glycyrrhizin.

Glycerule (gli'sê-röl), n. (CH) The hypothetical triatomic radical of glycerine and the glycerides.

Glyceryl (gli'sé-ril), n. (CH) The radicle of glycerine.

Glycocoll, Glycocine (gliko-kol, gliko-sin), n. [Gr. glykys, sweet, and kolla, glue.] Another name for gelatine sugar. See GELA

TINE.

Glycogen (gli'ko-jen), n. [Gr. glykys, sweet, and gennaō, to produce.] In organic chem and physiol. a proximate non-nitrogenous principle occurring in the epithelial cells of the liver, where it exists as an amorphous matter. In properties it seems to be intermediate between starch and dextrine, and is a respiratory or heat-forming food. In