GLA'BRIATE, verb transitive [Latin glabro.] To make smooth. [Not used.]
GLA'BRITY, noun Smoothness. [Not used.]
GLA'BROUS, adjective [Latin glaber, allied to Eng. glib.
Smooth; having an even surface.
GLA'CIAL, adjective [Latin glacialis, from glacies, ice.]
Icy; consisting of ice; frozen.
GLA'CIATE, verb intransitive To turn to ice.
GLACIA'TION, noun [supra.] The act of freezing; ice formed.
GLA'CIER, noun A field or immense mass of ice, formed in deep but elevated valleys, or on the sides of the Alps or other mountains. These masses of ice extend many miles in length and breadth, and remain undissolved by the heat of summer.
GLA'CIOUS, adjective Like ice; icy.
GLA'CIS, noun In building, or gardening, an easy, insensible slope.
1. In fortification, a sloping bank; that mass of earth which serves as a parapet to the covered way, having an easy slope or declivity towards the champaign or field.
GLAD, adjective [Latin loetus, without a prefix.]
1. Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.
A wise son maketh a glad father. Proverbs 10:1.
It is usually followed by of. I am glad of an opportunity to oblige my friend.
It is sometimes followed by at.
He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Proverbs 17:5.
It is sometimes followed by with.
The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood--
With, after glad is unusual, and in this passage at would have been preferable.
2. Cheerful; joyous.
They blessed the king, and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart. 1 Kings 8:66.
3. Cheerful; wearing the appearance of joy; as a glad countenance.
4. Wearing a gay appearance; showy; bright.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them. Isaiah 35:1.
GLAD evening and glad morn crown'd the fourth day.
5. Pleasing; exhilarating.
Her conversation
More glad to me than to a miser money is.
6. Expressing gladness or joy; exciting joy.
Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers.
GLAD, verb transitive [The preterit tense and participle passive gladed is not used. See Gladden.]
To make glad; to affect with pleasure; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
GLAD'DEN, verb transitive glad'n. To make glad; to cheer; to please; to exhilarate. The news of peace gladdens our hearts.
Churches will every where gladden his eye,
and hymns of praise vibrate upon his ear.
GLAD'DEN, verb intransitive glad'n. To become glad; to rejoice.
So shall your country ever gladden at the sound of your voice.
GLAD'DER, noun One that makes glad, or gives joy.
GLAD'DING, participle present tense Making glad; cheering; giving joy.
GLADE, noun An opening or passage made through a wood by lopping off the branches of the trees. Locally, in the U. States, a natural opening or open place in a forest.
There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
1. In New England, an opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen.
GLADE, noun Smooth ice.
GLA'DEN
GLA'DER, noun [Latin glaldius, a sword.] Swordgrass; the general name of plants that rise with a broad blade like sedge.
GLA'DER, n. [L. glaldius, a sword.] Swordgrass; the general name of plants that rise with a broad blade like sedge.
GLAD'FUL, adjective Full of gladness.
GLAD'FULNESS, noun Joy; gladness.
GLA'DIATE, adjective [Latin gladius, a sword.] Sword-shaped; resembling the form of a sword; as the legume of a plant.
GLADIA'TOR, noun [Latin from gladius, a sword.]
A sword-player; a prize-fighter. The gladiators, in Rome, were men who fought in the arena, for the entertainment of the people.
GLADIATO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to gladiators, or to combats for the entertainment of the Roman people.
GLA'DIATORY, adjective Relating to gladiators.
GLA'DIATURE, noun Sword-play; fencing. [Not in use.]
GLAD'IOLE, noun [Latin gladiolus, a dagger.] A plant, the sword-lily, of the genus Gladiolus. The water gladiole is of the genus Butomus or flowering rush, and also of the genus Lobelia or cardinal flower.
GLAD'LY, adverb [See Glad.] With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully.
The common people heard him gladly Mark 12:37.
GLAD'NESS, noun [See Glad.] Joy, or a moderate degree of joy and exhilaration; pleasure of mind; cheerfulness.
They--did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts 2:46.
[Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety and triumph, and it usually expresses less than delight. It sometimes expresses great joy. Esther 8:9.]
GLAD'SOME, adjective Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
1. Causing joy, pleasure or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.
Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day.
GLAD'SOMELY, adverb With joy; with pleasure of mind.
GLAD'SOMENESS, noun Joy, or moderate joy; pleasure of mind.
1. Showiness.
GLAD'WIN, noun A plant of the genus Iris.
GLAIR, noun [Eng. clear, Latin clarus, and with Eng. glare, and Latin gloria; perhaps with Latin glarea, gravel, or pieces of quartz.]
1. The white of an egg. It is used as a varnish for preserving paintings.
2. Any viscous transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
3. A kind of halbert.
GLAIR, verb transitive To smear with the white of an egg; to varnish.
GLA'IRY, adjective Like glair, or partaking of its qualities.
GL'ANCE, noun [The primary sense is to shoot, to throw, to dart.]
1. A sudden shoot of light or splendor.
2. A shoot or darting of sight; a rapid or momentary view or cast; a snatch of sight; as a sudden glance; a glance of the eye.
GL'ANCE, verb intransitive To shoot or dart a ray of light or splendor.
When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly.
1. To fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. The arrow struck the shield and glanced. So we say, a glancing ball or shot.
2. To look with a sudden rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
Then sit again, and sigh and glance
3. To hint; to cast a word or reflection; as to glance at a different subject.
4. To censure by oblique hints.
GL'ANCE, verb transitive To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
GL'ANCING, participle passive Shooting; darting; casting suddenly; flying off obliquely.
GL'ANCINGLY, adverb By glancing; in a glancing manner; transiently.
GLAND, noun [Latin glans, a nut; glandula, a gland ]
1. In anatomy, a distinct soft body, formed by the convolution of a great number of vessels, either constituting a part of the lymphatic system, or destined to secrete some fluid from the blood. Glands have been divided into conglobate and conglomerate, from their structure; but a more proper division is into lymphatic and secretory. The former are found in the course of the lymphatic vessels, and are conglobate. The latter are of various structure. They include the mucous follicles, the conglomerate glands, properly so called, such as the parotid glands and the pancreas, the liver, kidneys, etc. The term has also been applied to other bodies of a similar appearance, neither lymphatic nor secretory; such as the thymus and thyroid glands, whose use is not certainly known, certain portions of the brain, as the pineal
and pituitary glands, etc. [See Conglobate and Conglomerate.]
2. In botany, a gland or glandule is an excretory or secretory duct or vessel in a plant. Glands are found on the leaves, petioles, peduncles and stipules.
GLAND'ERED, adjective Affected with glanders.
GLAND'ERS, noun [from gland.] In farriery, the running of corrupt slimy matter from the nose of a horse.
GLANDIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin glandifer; glans, an acorn, and fero, to bear.]
Bearing acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast. The beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.
GLAND'IFORM, adjective [Latin glans and forma, form.]
In the shape of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
GLAND'ULAR, adjective Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
GLANDULA'TION, noun In botany, the situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles or utricles.
GLAND'ULE, noun [Latin glandula.] A small gland or secreting vessel.
GLANDULIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin glandula and fero, to bear.]
Bearing glands.
GLANDULOS'ITY, noun A collection of glands. [Little used.]
GLAND'ULOUS, adjective [Latin glandulosus.] Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
GLARE, noun
1. A bright dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or splendor, that dazzles the eyes.
The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
2. A fierce, piercing look.
--About them round,
A lion now he stalks with fiery glare
3. A viscous transparent substance. [See Glair.]
GLARE, verb intransitive To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light; as glaring light.
The cavern glares with new admitted light.
1. To look with fierce, piercing eyes.
They glared, like angry lions.
2. To shine with excessive luster; to be ostentatiously splendid; as a glaring dress.
She glares in balls, front boxes and the ring.
GLARE, verb transitive To shoot a dazzling light.
GLA'REOUS, adjective Resembling the white of an egg; viscous and transparent or white.
GLA'RING, participle present tense Emitting a clear and brilliant light; shining with dazzling luster.
1. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as a glaring crime.
GLA'RINGLY, adverb Openly; clearly; notoriously.
GL'ASS, noun [Latin glastum; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as Latin viridis, from vireo.]
1. A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.
2. A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass
3. A mirror; a looking-glass.
4. A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
5. The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.
6. The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wine with me.
7. A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
8. A perspective glass; as an optic glass
9. The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, a ship fought three glasses.
10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.
GL'ASS, adjective Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.
GL'ASS, verb transitive To see as in a glass [Not used.]
1. To case in glass [Little used.]
2. To cover with glass; to glaze.
[In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.]
GL'ASSBLOWER, noun One whose business is to blow and fashion glass.
GL'ASSFULL, noun As much as a glass holds.
GL'ASSFURNACE, noun A furnace in which the materials of glass are melted.
GL'ASSGRINDER, noun One whose occupation is to grind and polish glass.
GL'ASSHOUSE, noun A house where glass is made.
GL'ASSINESS, noun The quality of being glassy or smooth; a vitreous appearance.
GL'ASSLIKE, adjective Resembling glass.
GL'ASSMAN, noun One who sells glass.
GL'ASSMETAL, noun Glass in fusion.
GL'ASSPOT, noun A vessel used for melting glass in manufactories.
GL'ASSWORK, noun Manufacture of glass.
GL'ASSWORKS, noun plural The place or buildings where glass is made.
GL'ASSWORT, noun A plant, the Salsola, of several species, all which may be used in the manufacture of glass. The Barilla of commerce, is the semifused ashes of the Salsola soda, which is largely cultivated on the Mediterranean in Spain.
GL'ASSY, adjective Made of glass; vitreous; as a glassy substance.
1. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
GLAUB'ERITE, noun A mineral of a grayish white or yellowish color, consisting of dry sulphate of lime and dry sulphate of soda.
GLAUCO'MA, noun [Gr.] A fault in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes gray, but without injury to the sight.
A disease in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes of a bluish or greenish color, and its transparency is diminished.
An opacity of the vitreous humor.
According to Sharp, the glaucoma of the Greeks is the same as the cataract; and according to St. Yves and others, it is a cataract with amaurosis.
GLAUC'OUS, adjective [Latin glaucus.] Of a sea green color; of a light green.
GLAVE, noun A broadsword; a falchion. [Not used.]
GLAV'ER, verb intransitive [Latin glaber, lavis, or lubricus; Eng. glib.]
To flatter; to wheedle. [Little used and vulgar.]
GLAV'ERER, noun A flatterer. [supra.]
GLAZE, verb transitive [from glass.] To furnish with windows of glass; as, to glaze a house.
1. To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen ware.
2. To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of a thing smooth, bright and showy.
Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons.
3. To give a glass surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.
GLA'ZED, participle passive Furnished with glass windows; incrusted with a substance resembling glass; rendered smooth and shining.
GLA'ZIER, noun gla'zhur. [from glaze or glass.]
One whose business is to set window glass, or to fix panes of glass to the sashes of windows, to pictures, etc.
GLA'ZING, participle present tense Furnishing with window glass.
1. Crusting with a vitreous substance, as potter's ware.
2. Giving a smooth, glossy, shining surface, as to cloth.
GLA'ZING, noun The vitreous substance with which potter's ware is incrusted.
GLEAM, noun [Latin flamma.] The radical sense is to throw, to shoot or dart, and it may be of the same family as clamo, clamor, a shoot of the voice.
1. A shoot of light; a beam; a ray; a small stream of light. A gleam of dawning light, metaphorically, a gleam of hope.
2. Brightness; splendor.
In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
GLEAM, verb intransitive To shoot or dart, as rays of light. At the dawn light gleams in the east.
1. To shine; to cast light.
2. To flash; to spread a flood of light. [Less common.]
3. Among falconers, to disgorge filth, as a hawk.
GLE'AMING, participle present tense Shooting as rays of light; shining.
GLE'AMING, noun A shoot or shooting of light.
GLE'AMY, adjective Darting beams of light; casting light in rays.
In brazen arms, that cast a gleamy ray,
Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.
GLEAN, verb transitive
1. To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them.
Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn - Ruth 2:2.
2. To collect things thinly scattered; to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels; as, to glean a few passages from an author.
They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men. Judges 20:45.
GLEAN, verb intransitive To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth 2:3.
GLEAN, noun A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
GLE'ANED, participle passive Gathered after reapers; collected from small detached parcels; as grain gleaned from the field.
1. Cleared of what is left; as, the field is gleaned
2. Having suffered a gleaning. The public prints have been gleaned
GLE'ANER, noun One who gathers after reapers.
1. One who collects detached parts or numbers, or who gathers slowly with labor.
GLE'ANING, participle present tense Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.
GLE'ANING, noun The act of gathering after reapers.
1. That which is collected by gleaning
GLEBE, noun [Latin gleba, a clod or clump of earth.]
1. Turf; soil; ground.
Till the glad summons of a genial ray
Unbinds the glebe---
2. The land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
3. A crystal.
4. Among miners, a piece of earth in which is contained some mineral ore.
GLE'BOUS, adjective Gleby; turfy.
GLE'BY, adjective Turfy; cloddy.
GLEDE, noun A fowl of the rapacious kind, the kite, a species of Falcon. The word is used in Deuteronomy 14:13. but the same Hebrew word, Leviticus 11:14. is rendered a vulture.
GLEE, noun
1. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
2. A sort of catch or song sung in parts.
GLEED, noun A glowing coal.
GLEE'FUL, adjective Merry; gay; joyous.
GLEEK, noun [See Glee.] Music, or a musician.
1. A scoff; a game at cards.
GLEEK, verb intransitive To make sport of; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.
GLEE'MAN, noun A musician.
GLEEN, verb intransitive To shine; to glisten. [Not used.]
GLEE'SOME, adjective Merry; joyous.
GLEET, noun The flux of a thin humor from the urethra; a thin ichor running from a sore.
GLEET, verb intransitive To flow in a thin limpid humor; to ooze.
1. To flow slowly, as water.
GLEET'Y, adjective Ichorous; thin; limpid.
GLEN, noun A valley; a dale; a depression or space between hills.
GLENE, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, the cavity or socket of the eye, and the pupil; any slight depression or cavity receiving a bone in articulation.
GLEW. [See Glue.]
GLI'ADINE, noun [Gr. glue.] One of the constituents of gluten, a slightly transparent, brittle substance, of a straw-yellow color, having a slight smell, similar to that of honeycomb.
GLIB, adjective [Latin glaber, smooth; labor, to slide. This word contains the elements of slip. Qu. Latin glubo.]
1. Smooth; slippery; admitting a body to slide easily on the surface; as, ice is glib
2. Smooth; voluble; easily moving; as a glib tongue.
GLIB, noun A thick curled bush of hair hanging down over the eyes. [Not in use.]
GLIB, verb transitive To castrate.
1. To make smooth.
GLIB'LY, adverb Smoothly; volubly; as, to slide glibly; to speak glibly
GLIB'NESS, noun Smoothness; slipperiness; as a polished ice-like glibness
1. Volubility of the tongue.
GLIDE, verb intransitive
1. To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.
By east, among the dusty vallies glide
The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.
2. To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.
3. To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.
4. In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.
GLIDE, noun The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.
GLI'DER, noun He or that which glides.
GLI'DING, participle present tense Passing along gently and smoothly; moving rapidly, or with ease.
GLIM'MER, verb intransitive
1. To shoot feeble or scattered rays of light; as the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
When rosy morning glimmer'd o'er the dales.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
2. To shine faintly; to give a feeble light.
Mild evening glimmered on the lawn.
GLIM'MER, noun A faint light; feeble scattered rays of light.
1. In mineralogy, mica, glist, muscovy-glass; a mineral resulting from crystallization, but rarely found in regular crystals. usually it appears in thin, flexible, elastic lamins, which exhibit a high polish and strong luster. It is an essential ingredient in granite, gneiss, and mica slate.
GLIM'MERING, participle present tense Shining faintly; shooting feeble scattered rays of light.
GLIM'MERING, noun A faint beaming of light.
1. A faint view.
GLIMPSE, noun glims.
1. A weak faint light.
Such vast room in Nature,
Only to shine, yet scarce to contribute
Each orb a glimpse of light.
2. A flash of light; as the lightning's glimpse
3. Transient luster.
One glimpse of glory to my issue give.
4. A short transitory view. He saw at a glimpse the design of the enemy.
5. Short fleeting enjoyment; as a glimpse of delight.
6. Exhibition of a faint resemblance.
GLIMPSE, verb intransitive To appear by glimpses.
GLIS'SA, noun A fish of the tunny kind, without scales.
GLIST, noun [from glisten.] Glimmer; mica. [See Glimmer.]
GLIS'TEN, verb intransitive glis'n. [Heb. to shine; Latin glisco; Eng. gloss.]
To shine; to sparkle with light; as the glistening stars.
The ladies' eyes glistened with pleasure.
GLIS'TENING, participle present tense Shining; sparkling; emitting rays of light.
GLIS'TER, verb intransitive [See Glisten.] To shine; to be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant.
All that glistens is not gold.
GLISTER. [See Clyster.]
GLIS'TERING, participle present tense Shining; sparkling with light.
GLIS'TERINGLY, adverb With shining luster.
GLIT'TER, verb intransitive
1. To shine; to sparkle with light; to gleam; to be splendid; as a glittering sword.
The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
2. To be showing, specious or striking, and hence attractive; as the glittering scenes of a court.
GLIT'TER, noun Brightness; brilliancy; splendor; luster; as the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage; the glitter of dress.
GLIT'TERAND, participle present tense or adjective Sparkling. [Not in use.]
GLIT'TERING, participle present tense Shining; splendid; brilliant.
GLIT'TERINGLY, adverb With sparkling luster.
GLOAM, verb intransitive To be sullen. [See Glum.]
GLOAR, verb intransitive To squint; to stare.
GLOAT, verb intransitive To cast side glances; to stare with eagerness or admiration.
GLO'BATE
GLO'BATED, adjective [Latin globatus.] Having the form of a globe; spherical; spheroidal.
GLOBE, noun [Latin globus; Eng. clew. See Clew.]
1. A round or spherical solid body; a ball; a sphere; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center.
2. The earth; the terraqueous ball; so called, though not perfectly spherical.
3. An artificial sphere of metal, paper or other matter, 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
4. A body of soldiers formed into a circle.
GLOBE, verb transitive To gather round or into a circle.
GLOBO'SE, adjective [Latin globosus, from globe.]
Round; spherical; globular.
GLOBOS'ITY, noun The quality of being round; sphericity.
GLO'BOUS, adjective [Latin globosus.] Round; spherical.
GLOB'ULAR, adjective [from globe.] Round; spherical; having the form of a small ball or sphere; as globular atoms.
GLOBULA'RIA, noun A flosculous flower.
GLOB'ULE, noun [Latin globulus, dim. of globus.]
A little globe; a small particle of matter of a spherical form; a word particularly applied to the red particles of blood, which swim in a transparent serum, and may be discovered by the microscope.
Hail stones have opake globules of snow in their center.
GLOB'ULOUS, adjective Round; globular; having the form of a small sphere.
GLO'BY, adjective Round; orbicular.
GLODE, old preterit tense of glide.
GLOME, noun [Latin glomus; Heb. to wind, convolve, or collect into a mass.] In botany, a roundish head of flowers.
GLOM'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin glomero, from glomus, supra.]
To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
GLOM'ERATED, participle passive Gathered into a ball or round mass.
GLOM'ERATING, participle present tense Collecting or winding into a ball or round mass.
GLOMERA'TION, noun [Latin glomertio.] The act of gathering, winding or forming into a ball or spherical body.
1. A body formed into a ball.
GLOM'EROUS, adjective [Latin glomerosus.] Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
GLOOM, noun
1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.
2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.
3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.
4. Sullenness.
GLOOM, verb intransitive To shine obscurely or imperfectly.
1. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.
2. To be melancholy or dejected.
GLOOM, verb transitive To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.
GLOOM'ILY, adverb [from gloomy.] Obscurely; dimly; darkly; dismally.
1. With melancholy aspect; sullenly; not cheerfully.
GLOOM'INESS, noun Want of light; obscurity; darkness; dismalness.
1. Want of cheerfulness; cloudiness of look; heaviness of mind; melancholy; as, to involve the mind in gloominess
GLOOM'Y, adjective [from gloom.] Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; or dark; dismal; as the gloomy cells of a convent; the gloomy shades of night.
1. Wearing the aspect of sorrow; melancholy; clouded; dejected; depressed; heavy of heart; as a gloomy countenance or state of mind; a gloomy temper.
2. Of a dark complexion. [Little used.]
GLORIA'TION, noun [Latin gloriatio.] Boast; a triumphing. [Not used.]
GLO'RIED, adjective [See Glory.] Illustrious; honorable. [Not used.]
GLORIFICA'TION, noun [See Glorify.] The act of giving glory or of ascribing honors to.
1. Exaltation to honor and dignity; elevation to glory; as the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.
GLO'RIFIED, participle passive Honored; dignified; exalted to glory.
GLO'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin gloria and facio, to make.]
1. To praise; to magnify and honor in worship; to ascribe honor to, in thought or words. Psalms 86:9
God is glorified, when such his excellency, above all things, is with due admiration acknowledged.
2. To make glorious; to exalt to glory, or to celestial happiness.
Whom he justified, them he also glorified. Romans 8:1.
The God of our fathers hath glorified his son
Jesus. Acts 3:1.
3. To praise; to honor; to extol.
Whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life--him they set up and glorify
4. To procure honor or praise to.
GLO'RIFYING, participle present tense Praising; honoring in worship; exalting to glory; honoring; extolling.
GLO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin gloriosus. See Glory.]
1. Illustrious; of exalted excellence and splendor; resplendent in majesty and divine attributes; applied to God. Exodus 15:11.
2. Noble; excellent; renowned; celebrated; illustrious; very honorable; applied to men, their achievements, titles, etc.
Let us remember we are Cato's friends,
And act like men who claim that glorious title.
3. Boastful; self-exulting; haughty; ostentatious.
GLO'RIOUSLY, adverb Splendidly; illustriously; with great renown or dignity.
Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously Exodus 15:1.
GLO'RY, noun [Latin gloria; planus; hence, bright, shining. glory then, is brightness, splendor. The Latin floreo, to blossom, to flower, to flourish, is probably of the same family.]
1. Brightness; luster; splendor.
The moon, serene in glory mounts the sky.
For he received from God the Father honor and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory 2 Peter 1:17.
In this passage of Peter, the latter word glory refers to the visible splendor or bright cloud that overshadowed Christ at his transfiguration. The former word glory though the same in the original, is to be understood in a figurative sense.
2. Splendor; magnificence.
Solomon, in all his glory was not arrayed like one
of these. Matthew 6:2.
3. The circle of rays surrounding the head of a figure in painting.
4. Praise ascribed in adoration; honor.
Glory to God in the highest. Luke 2:9.
5. Honor; praise; fame; renown; celebrity. The hero pants for glory in the field. It was the glory of Howard to relieve the wretched.
6. The felicity of heaven prepared for the children of God; celestial bliss.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory Psalms 73:24.
7. In scripture, the divine presence; or the ark, the manifestation of it.
The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Samuel 4:21.
8. The divine perfections or excellence.
The heavens declare the glory of God. Psalms 19:1.
9. Honorable representation of God. 1 Corinthians 11:8.
10. Distinguished honor or ornament; that which honors or makes renowned; that of which one may boast.
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. Isaiah 13:19.
11. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance; as vain glory
12. Generous pride.
GLO'RY, verb intransitive [Latin glorior, from gloria.]
To exult with joy; to rejoice.
Glory ye in his holy name. Psa 105. 1 Chronicles 16:10.
1. To boast; to be proud of.
No one should glory in his prosperity.
GLO'RYING, participle present tense Exulting with joy; boasting.
GLO'RYING, noun The act of exulting; exultation; boasting; display of pride.
Your glorying is not good. 1 Corinthians 5:6.
GLOSE, GLOSER. [See Gloze.]
GLOSE, GLOSER [See Gloze.]
GLOSS, noun [Gr. the tongue, and a strap. Latin has glossa, a tongue, and interpretation. In Heb. signifies to shine, but from the sense of smoothness. Latin lustro; Eng. luster.]
1. Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; as the gloss of silk; cloth is calendared to give it a gloss
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 truth doth afford.
3. An interpretation artfully specious.
4. Interpretation; comment; explanation; remark intended to illustrate a subject.
All this, without a gloss or comment,
He would unriddle in a moment.
Explaining the text in short glosses.
5. A literal translation.
GLOSS, verb transitive To give a superficial luster to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth by the calendar; to gloss mahogany.
1. To explain; to render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate.
2. 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.
GLOSS, verb intransitive To comment; to write or make explanatory remarks.
1. To make sly remarks.
GLOSSA'RIAL, adjective Containing explanation.
GLOSS'ARIST, noun A writer of glosses or comments.
GLOSS'ARY, noun [Low Latin glossarium.]
A dictionary or vocabulary, explaining obscure or antiquated words found in old authors; such as Du Canage's Glossary; Spelman's glossary
GLOSSA'TOR, noun A writer of comments; a commentator. [Not used.
GLOSS'ED, participle passive Made smooth and shining; explained.
GLOSS'ER, noun A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.
1. A polisher; one who gives a luster.
GLOSS'INESS, noun [from glossy.] The luster or brightness of a smooth surface.
GLOSS'ING, participle present tense Giving luster to; polishing; explaining by comments; giving a specious appearance.
GLOSS'IST, noun A writer of comments. [Not in use.]
GLOSSOG'RAPHER, noun [gloss and Gr. to write.]
A writer of glosses; a commentator; a scholiast.
GLOSSOG'RAPHY, noun The writing of comments for illustrating an author.
GLOSSOL'OGIST, noun [gloss.] One who writes glosses; a commentator.
GLOSSOL'OGY, noun [gloss and Gr. discourse.]
Glosses or commentaries; explanatory notes for illustrating an author.
GLOSS'Y, adjective Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth
surface; highly polished; as glossy silk; a glossy raven; a glossy plum.
GLOT'TIS, noun [Gr. the tongue.] The narrow opening at the upper part of the aspera arteria or windpipe, which, by its dilatation and contraction, contributes to the modulation of the voice.
GLOUT, verb intransitive To pout; to look sullen. [Not used.]
GLOUT, verb transitive To view attentively. [Not in use.]
GLOVE, noun A cover for the hand, or for the hand and arm, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter circumstance distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
To throw the glove with our ancestors, was to challenge to single combat.
GLOVE, verb transitive To cover with a glove
GLOVER, noun One whose occupation is to make and sell gloves.
GLOW, verb intransitive
1. To shine with intense heat; or perhaps more correctly, to shine with a white heat; to exhibit incandescence. Hence, in a more general sense, to shine with a bright luster.
GLOWs in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
2. To burn with vehement heat.
The scorching fire that in their entrails glows.
3. To feel great heat of body; to be hot.
Did not his temples glow
In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
4. To exhibit a strong bright color; to be red.
Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
Fair ideas flow,
Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow
5. To be bright or red with heat or animation, or with blushes; as glowing cheeks.
6. To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.
We say, the heart glows with love or zeal; the glowing breast.
When real virtue fires the glowing bard.
If you have never glowed with gratitude to the author of the christian revelation, you know nothing of christianity.
7. To burn with intense heat; to rage; as passion.
With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
GLOW, verb intransitive To heat so as to shine. [Not used.]
GLOW, noun Shining heat, or white heat.
1. Brightness of color; redness; as the glow of health in the cheeks.
A waving glow his bloomy beds display,
Blushing in bright diversities of day.
2. Vehemence of passion.
GLOWING, participle present tense Shining with intense heat; white with heat.
1. Burning with vehement heat.
2. Exhibiting a bright color; red; as a glowing color; glowing cheeks.
3. Ardent; vehement; animated; as glowing zeal.
4. Inflamed; as a glowing breast.
GLOWINGLY, adverb With great brightness; with ardent heat or passion.
GLOWWORM, noun The female of the Lampyris noctiluca, an insect of the order of Coleopters. It is without wings and resembles a caterpillar. It emits a shining green light from the extremity of the abdomen. The male is winged and flies about in the evening, when it is attracted by the light of the female.
GLOZE, verb intransitive To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; that is, to smooth, or to talk smoothly.
So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd.
A false glozing parasite.
GLOZE, noun Flattery; adulation.
1. Specious show; gloss. [Not used. See Gloss.]
GLO'ZER, noun A flatterer.
GLO'ZING, participle present tense Flattering; wheedling.
GLO'ZING, noun Specious representation.
GLU'CIN, noun [Gr.] A soft white earth or powder obtained from the beryl and emerald; so named from its forming, with acids, salts that are sweet to the taste.
Glucin is a compound, of which glucinum is the base.
GLUE, noun glu. [Latin gluten.]
Inspissated animal gluten; a tenacious, viscid matter, which serves as a cement to unite other substances. It is made of the skins, parings, etc. of animals, as of oxen, calves or sheep, by boiling them to a jelly.
GLUE, verb transitive To join with glue or a viscous substance. Cabinet makers glue together some parts of furniture.
1. To unite; to hold together.
[This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense. The phrases, to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]
GLU'EBOILER, noun [glue and boil.] One whose occupation is to make glue.
GLU'ED, participle passive United or cemented with glue.
GLU'ER, noun One who cements with glue.
GLU'EY, adjective Viscous; glutinous.
GLU'EYNESS, noun The quality of being gluey.
GLU'ING, participle present tense Cementing with glue.
GLU'ISH, adjective Having the nature of glue.
GLUM, adjective Frowning; sullen. [Little used.]
GLUM, noun Sullenness; and, as a verb, to look sullen. [Not in use.]
GLUMA'CEOUS, adjective Having glumes; consisting of glumes.
GLUME, noun [Latin gluma, from glubo, to bark or peel.]
In botany, the calyx or corol of corn and grasses, formed of valves embracing the seed, often terminated by the arista or beard; the husk or chaff.
GLUM'MY, adjective Dark; gloomy; dismal.
GLU'MOUS, adjective A glumous flower is a kind of aggregate flower, having a filiform receptacle, with a common glume at the base.
GLUT, verb intransitive [Latin glutio, Low Latin gluto, a glutton.]
1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge.
2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites.
3. To feast or delight even to satiety.
His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
4. To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market.
5. To saturate.
GLUT, noun That which is swallowed.
1. Plenty even to loathing.
He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights.
A glut of study and retirement.
2. More than enough; superabundance.
3. Any thing that fills or obstructs the passage.
4. A wooden wedge.
GLU'TEAL, adjective [Gr. nates.] The gluteal artery, is a branch of the hypogastric or internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal muscles.
The gluteal muscles, are three large muscles on each side, which make up the fleshy part of the buttocks.
GLUTEN, noun [Latin See Glue.] A tough elastic substance, of a grayish color, 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.
1. That part of the blood which gives firmness to its texture.
GLU'TINATE, verb transitive To unite with glue; to cement.
GLUTINA'TION, noun The act of uniting with glue.
GLU'TINATIVE, adjective Having the quality of cementing; tenacious.
GLUTINOS'ITY, noun The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.
GLU'TINOUS, noun [Latin glutinosus.] Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue. Starch is glutinous
1. In botany, besmeared with a slippery moisture; as a glutinous leaf.
GLU'TINOUSNESS, noun Viscosity; viscidity; the quality of glue, tenacity.
GLUT'TON, noun glut'n. [Low Latin gluto.] One who indulges to excess in eating.
1. One eager of any thing to excess.
Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.
2. In zoology, an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the noun of Europe and Siberia. It grows to the length of three feet, but has short legs and moves slowly. It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal. It is names from its voracious appetite.
GLUT'TONIZE, verb intransitive To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious.
GLUT'TONOUS, adjective Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; as a gluttonous age.
1. Consisting in excessive eating; as gluttonous delight.
GLUT'TONOUSLY, adverb With the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating.
GLUT'TONY, noun Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.
1. Luxury of the table.
Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts.
2. Voracity of appetite.
GLYCO'NIAN
GLYCON'IC, adjective [Low Latin glyconium.] Denoting a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of three feet, a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; as Glyconic measure.
GLYN. [See Glen.]
GLYPH, noun [Gr. to carve.] In sculpture and architecture, a canal, channel or cavity intended as an ornament.
GLYPH'IC, noun A picture or figure by which a word is implied. [See Hieroglyphic.]
GLYP'TIC, noun [supra.] The art of engraving figures on precious stones.
GLYPTOGRAPH'IC, adjective [Gr.] Describing the methods of engraving on precious stones.
GLYPTOG'RAPNY, noun [supra.] A description of the art of engraving on precious stones.