There is another collection of proverbs made by the Marquis of Santillana. They are, however, neither rhymed nor glossed, but simply arranged in alphabetical order. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 341. There are several Latin manuscripts glossed more or less copiously with explanatory Irish words. Encyc. Brit., V. 305. Hence-2. To give a specious appearanco to; render specious and plausible; palliate by fabricated representation. You have the art to gloss the foulest cause. Philips. II. intrans. To comment; write or make explanatory remarks. But no man can glosse upon this text after that manner; for the prophet says, No shepherd shall pitch his fold there, nor shall any man pass through it for ever. Dr. H. More, Def. of Philos. Cabbala, iii. glossa (glos'ä), n.; pl. glossæ (-ẽ). [NL., Gr. yoooa, Attic yarra, the tongue: see gloss2, n.] 1. In anat., the tongue.-2. In entom., an appendage of the ligula, situated at its tip, which may be median and single or paired with a fellow, and may be placed between lateral paraglossa. See cut under mouth-part. glossagra (glo-sagʻrä), n. [ Gr. yoooa, the tongue,+aypa, seizure, as in Tódaypa, the gout in the feet (see podagra), whence used in other compounds (chiragra, etc.) as meaning 'gout.'] Same as glossalgia. glossalgia (glo-sal'ji-ä), n. [< Gr. yawooa, the tongue,+ anyos, pain.] In pathol., neuralgia in the tongue. glossan, glossin (glos'an, -in), n. [Cf. glassock.] Local English names of the coalfish. Also glassin, glashan, glassock. glossanthrax (glo-san'thraks), n. [NL., Gr. yhooa, the tongue, + avopas, a carbuncle.] A disease in horses and cattle characterized by malignant carbuncles in the mouth, and especially on the tongue. glossaria, n. Plural of glossarium. glossarial (glo-să'ri-al), a. [< glossary + -al.] Relating to, connected with, or of the nature of a glossary. In the glossarial index of former editions, the reader has merely been presented with a long list of words, and references to the passages where they occur. Boswell, Advertisement to Shakespeare. glossarian (glo-sā'ri-an), n. [<glossary + -an.] A glossarist. The qualifications of the ideal glossarian. Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 145. glossarist (glos'a-rist), n. [< glossary + -ist.] 1. A writer of a gloss or commentary. The glossarist cites that passage of the Electra apropos of which we know that Aristophanes wrote his comment. Amer. Jour. Philol., VI. 160. 2. One who prepares or compiles a glossary. glossarium (glo-sa'ri-um), n.; pl. glossaria (-ä). [NL., Gr. yoooa, a tongue. Cf. glossary.] In cntom., the long slender labrum of a mosquito or other predatory dipterous insect. glossary (glos a-ri), n.; pl. glossaries (-riz). [= F. glossaire Sp. glosario = Pg. It. glossaG. glossar, < LL. glossarium, a glossary, < glossa, a gloss: see gloss2.] A collection of glosses or explanations of words, especially of words not in general use, as those of a dialect, a locality, or an art or science, or of particular words used by an old or a foreign author; a vocabulary or dictionary of limited scope. rio = He spells them true by intuition's light, And needs no glossary to set him right. Cowper, Needless Alarm. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the old country. Lowell, Study Windows. Syn. Dictionary, Lexicon, etc. See vocabulary. Glossata (glo-sa'tä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of glossatus, tongued: see glossate.] A division of insects, containing those with suctorial mouthparts and a spiral tongue between reflexed palpi, corresponding to the order Lepidoptera. Fa bricius. glossate (glos'āt), a. [<NL. glossatus, tongued, Gr. yoga, tongue: see gloss2.] Having a tongue or glossa; in entom., haustellate, as distinguished from mandibulate; specifically, of or pertaining to the Glossata. glossator (glo-sa'tor), n. [= F. glossateur (OF. gloseor, gloseur) =Sp. glosador = It. glosatore, glossatore, ML. glossator, < glossare, gloss, 2545 explain, <LL. glossa, a gloss: see gloss2.] 1. The writer of a gloss; a glossarist; a scholiast. And if you ask how many will do it, courteous John Semeca, the learned glossator, will tell you. Boyle, Works, VI. 311. The whole verse is perhaps the addition of an allegorizing glossator. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 706. The codified law-Manu and his glossators-embraced originally a much smaller body of usage than had been imagined. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 7. 2. Specifically, one of a class of jurists in the middle ages who wrote short notes or glosses on the Corpus Juris Civilis. gloss-buffed (glos'buft), a. Buffed or polished on the wheel with rottenstone and oil, or with dry chalk. glossectomy (glo-sek'to-mi), n. [< Gr. yλwooa, tongue,+EKToun, a cutting out, <EKTÉμVELV, EKTαμείν, cut out, < ἐκ, out, + τέμνειν, ταμεῖν, eut.] In surg., excision of the tongue. glossed (glost), p. a. [Pp. of gloss1, v.] In entom., having a smooth and silky luster reflecting a color different from that of the surface on which it appears to be: as, glossed with white or blue. ingly minute hairs or points on the surface. Such appearances are generally due to exceedglosser1 (glos ́ér), n. [<gloss1 + -er1.] A polisher; one who gives a luster to something. glosser2 (glos'èr), n. [< gloss2 + -er1. Cf. glozer and glossator.] A writer of glosses; a glossarist. 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 pa tience. Hallam, Introd. to Lit. of Europe, I. i. § 72. In both laws [civil and canon] the opinions of the gloss ers are often cited as of equal authority with the letter of Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 307. the law or canon. glossohyal fiber into its constituent fibers and to add luster. Sometimes called stringing. glossingly (glos'ing-li), adr. In a glossing manner; by way of or as a gloss. Then she began glossingly to praise beauty. Glossiptila (glo-sip'ti-lä), n. [NL., Gr.2wooa, tongue,+Titov, down.] The typical genus of Glossiptilina. There is but one species, G. ruficollis, of Jamaica, formerly called American hedge-sparrow and now rufous-throated tanager. P. L. Sclater, 1856. Glossiptilinæ (glo-sip-ti-li'ne), n. pl. [NL., < Glossiptila + -inc.] A subfamily of Carebida, typified by the genus Glossiptila, containing guitguits with short, thick, conical, and scarcely curved bill. glossist (glos ist), n. [< gloss2 + -ist.] A writer of glosses; a glossarist. To establish by law a thing wholly unlawfull and dishonest is an affirmation was never heard of . . . till it was rais'd by inconsiderate glossists from the mistake of this text. Milton, Tetrachordon. It is quite conceivable how the glossist quoted . . . could render Wuotan by Mars. Grimm, Teut. Mythol. (trans.), I. 197. glossitic (glo-sit ́ik), a. [< glossitis + -ic.] Pertaining to or affected with glossitis. glossitis (glo-si'tis), n. [NL., < Gr. yλwooa, the tongue, + -itis.] In pathol., inflammation of the tongue. Also glottitis. glossless (glos'les), a. [< gloss1 + -less.] Without gloss or luster. Glossless vases painted in dull ochre browns and reds. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 612. glossly+ (glos'li), a. [< gloss1 + -ly1.] Appearing glossy or specious; bright. Cowley. glossocele (glos'o-sel), n. [= F. glossocèle, < Gr. wooa, the tongue, + kan, a tumor.] In pathol., swelled tongue; a state of inflammation or oedematous engorgement of the tongue glossfult, a. [< gloss1 + -ful.] Glossy; shin- which makes it project from the mouth. ing. glossocomion (glos ō-kō-miʼon), n. Same as Clasping his well-strung limbs with glossefull steele. glossocomium. Glossic (glosʼik), n. Marston, Sophonisba, i. 2. [Gr. oca, the tongue, a language, +-ic.] A phonetic system of spelling invented by Alexander J. Ellis, intended to be used concurrently with the existing English orthography (which he calls Nomic, i. e., customary'), in order to remedy some of its defects without changing its alphabetic form or detracting from its value. It is based on the principle of uniformly using for each sound the letter or di graph that happens to be most commonly used for such sound in the existing orthography. The following are the vowel notations with their equivalents in the system of this dictionary, and such of the consonant combinations as differ from those of that system. An inverted period after a vowel marks it as accented. Glossic. Dict. Glossic. Dict. glossid (glos ́id), n. A bivalve mollusk of the family Glosside. Glossidæ (glos'i-de), n. pl. [NL., Glossus ide.] A family of siphonate bivalve mollusks, the heart-cockles or heart-shells, typified by the genus Glossus. They have a cordiform shell with subspiral beaks, 2 cardinal and typically 2 lateral teeth in each valve, the muscular impressions narrow, and the pallial line simple. The species are not numerous. Also called Isocardiidæ. glossily (glos'i-li), adv. In a glossy manner. glossin, n. See glossan. Glossina (glo-si nä), n. [NL., Gr. yoga, tongue, ina.] 1. A genus of dipterous insects, or flies, of the family Muscida. G. morsitans is the terrible tsetse-fly.-2. A genus of brachiopods, of the family Lingulida. Phillips, 1848.-3. A genus of pyralid moths: same as Stericta. Guenée, 1854. glossiness (glos'i-nes), n. The quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. Their surfaces had a smoothness and glossiness much surpassing whatever I had observed in marine or common salt. Boyle, Works, VI. 606. glossing (glos'ing), n. [Verbal n. of gloss, v. In silk-manuf., an operation of twisting the hanks of silk, after dyeing, and when perfectly dry. They are given a stated and progressive tension, the object being to complete the separation of the double silk glossocomium (glos"o-ko-mi'um), n.; pl. glossocomia (-ä). [NL., <Gr. yżwoσokoμɛiov, Cyλwooa, the tongue, a tongue, the reed of a pipe, + Koμɛiv, keep, take care of.] In archæol.: (a) A small case used for holding the tongues of wind-instruments. (b) A box or case in which a fractured limb was incased. glosso-epiglottic (glos"ō-ep-i-glot'ik), a. [< Gr. yoga, tongue, + Extуrris, the epiglottis.] Pertaining to the tongue and the epiglottis: applied to folds of mucous membrane which pass from one to the other. glossograph (glosʻō-gråf), n. [Gr. hooa, the tongue, a gloss, ypápe, write.] 1. An instrument for recording the movements of the tongue, as in speaking. Glossograph.- An instrument consisting of an ingenious combination of delicate levers and blades, which, placed upon the tongue and lips, and under the nostrils of the speaker, are vibrated by the movements of the former, and the breath flowing from the latter. Greer, Dict. of Elect., p. 69. 2. Same as glossographer, 1. A glance at this scholium is enough to show that its author, like so many other editors and glossographs, made up a good part of his note directly from his text. Amer. Jour. Philol., VI. 158. glossographer (glo-sog'ra-fer), n. [= F. glossographe It. glossografo, < Gr. woooyрapos, writing glosses, interpreting glosses: see glossography.] 1. A writer of glosses; a commentator; a scholiast. Some words I believe may pose the ablest glossographer now living. Blount, Ancient Tenures, Pref. Speght was the first editor who gave a more complete edition of Chaucer, with the useful appendage of a glossary, the first of its kind, and which has been a fortunate acquisition for later glossographers. = = I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., I. 202. = 2. A writer on the tongue and its diseases. glossographical (glos-o-graf'i-kal), a. [< glossography + -ic-al.] Pertaining to or of the nature of glossography. glossography (glo-sog'ra-fi), n. [= F. glossographie Sp. glosografia Pg. glossographia It. glossografia, ‹ NL. glossographia, ‹ Gr. as woooypapia, woody pápor, writing glosses, interpreting glosses (not used in lit. sense 'writing about the tongue'), <y2wooa, the tongue, a gloss, ypápɛw, write.] 1. The writing of glosses or explanatory comments on a text. 3. A description and grouping of languages. 2. In anat., a description of the tongue.[Rare.] glossohyal (glos-o-hi'al), a. and n. [< Gr. y2wooa, tongue,+ E. hy(oïd) + -al.] I. a. Pertain glossohyal ing to the tongue and the hyoid bone; hyoglos- II. n. In ornith., a bone or cartilage situated AS. Gleáwceaster, Gleáwanceaster. For ceaster, city, see chester.] A kind of cheese for which the county of Gloucester in England is famous. There are two varieties, known as single and double, the latter being made of the richer milk. Gloucestershire cheese, under cheesel, gloteroust, a. [ME., <glotery +-ous. Cf. gluttonous.] Gluttonous. glutton. See Glossophaga, or an ant-eater of the genus Myrmecophaga or the genus Orycteropus; specifically, of or pertaining to the Glossophaga. glossopharyngeal (glos'o-fa-rin'je-al), a. and n. [Gr. yawooa, the tongue, +papvys, phax.] I. a. In anat., of or pertaining to the tongue and the pharynx.-Glossopharyngeal ganglia. See ganglion.-Glossopharyngeal nerve, a large nerve distributed to the tongue and the pharynx; the ninth A mygal that is a beeste born trecherows to bigile, and cranial nerve of the new numeration; of the old, forming moost gloterous. Wyclif, Lev. xi. 30 (Oxf.). (with the pneumogastric and spinal accessory) a part of glotont, glotount, n. Middle English forms of the eighth cranial nerve. It is a nerve of common sensation of the fauces, pharynx, tonsil, etc., and of the special sense of taste of all parts of the tongue to which it is dis- glotoniet, n. A Middle English form of glutther formed the eighth nerve in the numeration of Willis. tributed. It is the smallest one of the three which toge- tony. Its apparent origin is by several filaments from the upper glottal (glot'al), a. [< glott-is-al.] Of, part of the medulla oblongata in the groove between the pertaining to, or formed by the glottis: as, a restiform and olivary bodies. It leaves the cranial cavity glottal catch. by the jugular or posterior lacerate foramen, together with the pneumogastric and spinal accessory, and passes forward between the jugular vein and the internal carotid solalia in foreign languages, and the Corinthian glossolalia artery. It descends along the side of the neck in front of this artery, forming an arch upon the stylopharyngeus muscle and the middle constrictor of the pharynx, and passes beneath the hyoglossus to be distributed in the mucous membrane of the fauces, etc. In the jugular foramen it has two ganglia: the upper, the jugular ganglion; the lower, the petrous or Andersch's ganglion. It has branches of communication with the pneumogastric, facial, and sympathetic nerves. Its branches of distribution are called silar, lingual, and muscular nerves. See second cut under the tympanic (Jacobson's nerve), carotid, pharyngeal, ton The Irvingites who have written on the subject. make a marked distinction between the Pentecostal glos in devotional meetings. Schaff, Hist. Christ. Church, I. § 24. glossolaly (glos'o-la-li), n. Same as glossolalia. glossologist (glo-sol'o-jist), n. [< glossology + Also glottologist. glossology (glo-solo-ji), n. [= F. glossologie, Gr. y2wood, Attic horra, tongue, language, a gloss,+-hoyia, < eyew, speak: see -ology.] 1. The definition and explanation of terms, as of a dialect, a science, etc.-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. Whewell. We hear it [the science of language] spoken of as Com: Also glottology. Glossophaga nigra. brushy at the end, which was formerly erroneously thought to be used to facilitate the flow of blood in their supposed blood-sucking operations. They are, however, frugivorous, the tongue being used to lick out the soft pulp of fruits. There are several species, one of which is G. nigra. Glossophage (glo-sof'a-je), n. pl. [NL., pl. of Glossophaga.] The group of bats of which Glossophaga is the type, having a slender extensile tongue, the snout slender and attenuate, the tail short or wanting, and the teeth very narrow and variable in number. There are several genera and species. glossophagine (glo-sof'a-jin), a. [As Glossophaga+inel.] Feeding by means of a long extensile tongue which gathers food and conveys it into the mouth, as a bat of the genus brain. Mr. Ellis. assigns to the "sonant h" and the second element of the "sonant aspirates" a sound which is practically that of a glottal "r." H. Sweet, quoted by J. A. H. Murray, 9th Ann. Add. to [Philol. Soc. An obsolete variant of glut. glottet, v. glottici (glot'ik), a. [< Gr. y2wTTIKós, of the tongue, yrra, Attic form of yoooa, tongue: see gloss2.] 1. Pertaining to the tongue.-2. Of or pertaining to glottology; glottological. ing to the glottis. Also glottidean. glottic (glot'ik), a. [glott-is+ic.] Pertainglottid (glot'id), n. [< glottis (-id).] A glottal sound. A glottid is the action of the vocal chords in altering the form of the glottis or tongue-shaped space between them. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 382. II. n. The glossopharyngeal nerve. Glossophora (glo-sof'o-rä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of glossophorus: see glossophorous.] A main branch of the phylum Mollusca, containing all true mollusks except the lamellibranchs or glottidean (glo-tid'e-an), a. [glottis (-id-) + headless mollusks, which are contrasted asean.] Same as glottic2. Lipocephala. glossophorous (glo-sof'o-rus), a. [ NL. glos- Glottidia (glo-tid'i-ä), n. glottides, n. Plural of glottis. sophorus, Gr. ywooa, tongue, +-pópoc, gépet E. bear1.] Having a tongue; specifically, in Mollusca, of or pertaining to the Glossophora. The very general presence of jaws in the Glossophorous mollusca. Science, IV. 143. glossoplegia (glos-o-ple'ji-ä), n. [NL., Gr. nosis. = glossotheca (glos-o-the'kä), n.; pl. glossotheca A. J. Ellis. Glossus (glos'us), n. [NL.,< Gr. yλwooa, tongue: A raven, while with glossy breast known as G. audebarti. = = [NL. (Dall, 1870), Gr. Yarra, tongue: see glottis, gloss2.] A genus of brachiopods, of the family Lingulida, replacing Lingula proper in American waters. The type is L. or G. albida of the Californian coast. The common species of the Carolina coast and southward, formerly called Lingula pyramidata (Stimpson), is now glottis (glot'is), n.; pl. glottides (-i-dēz). [=F. glotte Sp. glótis Pg. glote, glotis It. glottide, NL. glottis, the glottis (L. glottis, a little bird so called), Gr. ywrris, the mouth of the windpipe, the glottis, <yrra, Attic form of yawooa, the tongue: see gloss2.] 1. In anat., the mouth of the windpipe; the opening at the top of the larynx; the chink, cleft, or fissure between the vocal cords. It closes to a slitlike opening during phonation, through the approximation of the vocal cords. The term designates most strictly the opening itself, sometimes distinguished as rima glottidis, but is also applied to the opening with the contiguous limiting structures, as in the expression 'oedema of the glottis, much as the term 'mouth' is used so as to include the lips. The ventral or anterior portion of the glottis, called glottis vocalis, is bounded by the true vocal cords; internal margins of the arytenoid cartilages. the dorsal or posterior part, glottis respiratoria, by the 2. The reed or tongue of certain ancient musical instruments.-3. In ornith., an old name of the greenshank; subsequently taken as the specific name of the same, Totanus glottis; made by Koch in 1816 the generic name of the same, Glottis chloropus.-Stroke of the glottis, a sudden approximation of the vocal cords whereby a tone is produced promptly and clearly, without aspiration. Also called shock of the glottis. glottitis (glo-ti'tis), n. Same as glossitis. glottogonic (glot-o-gon'ik), a. [ Gr. γλώττα, tongue, language,+yóvos, generation, yev, produce.] Relating to the origin of language or of languages. The general interest still clung to Bopp's old glottogonic, glottologist (glo-tol'o-jist), n. [< glottology + See Gloster. He [Lord Chesterfield], however, with that glossy du- Gloster, Gloucester (glos'ter), n. [Gloster is Translators of Bible (ed. 1611) to the Reader. In short, I cou'd not glout upon a Man when he comes into a Room, and laugh at him when he goes out. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, ii. 1. 2. To pout; look sullen. Jenny (turning away and glowting). I declare it, I won't bear it. Cibber, Provoked Husband, iv. glout 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, Tom Jones, vii. 8. [Chiefly prov. Eng.] glout (glout), n. [<glout, v.] A sullen or sulky look or manner; a pout. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.]-In the glout, in the sulks. way. = Mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, II. 140. glove (gluv), n. [ME. glove, glofe, < AS. glof (> Icel. glofi), a glove; possibly <ge-, a general or collective prefix (see i-1), lof (not found) Goth. lofa = Icel. lofi, E. loof, the palm of the hand: see loof.] 1. A covering for the hand having a separate sheath for each finger, and thus distinguished from a mitten. Gloves are made of a great variety of textile materials, of flexible leather, fur, etc. The form or make of gloves has sometimes constituted an indication of the rank of the wearer. Particular significance was formerly attached to certain uses of gloves, as to the wearing in the helmet or cap of a glove given by a lady as a favor or cognizance, or of one wrested from an enemy as a challenge; also to the throwing down of a glove as a defiance. See gauntlet1. For he vtterliche leueth the kepyng of hem [his hands], and neuer but whenne he bereth haukes, ne veseth he gloues. 2547 glove-of-mail (gluv'ov-mal'), n. See gauntlet1, 1. glover (gluv'èr), n. [< ME. glover, glovere; glove +-er1.] One whose occupation is to make or sell gloves. Other articles of soft leather, for dress or ornament, were also formerly regularly made by glovers, such as leather breeches, leggings, shirts, bags, pouches, and purses. We saw among them leather dressed like glouers' lea ther, and thicke thongs like white leather of a good length. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 100. The country was full of the scattered spoil of the monasteries;... the glovers of Malmesbury wrapped their goods in them. J. H. Shorthouse, John Inglesant, ii. Glovers' stitch. (a) The stitch peculiar to the seams of gloves. (b) In surg., the continuous suture. Glover's tower. Same as denitrificator. glove-sheep (gluv'shep), n. A particular sort of sheepskin or morocco. glove-calf. See extract under glove-shield (gluv'sheld), n. A contrivance adopted in the sixteenth century for arming the left hand for parrying thrusts and It had blows. Marie Hamilton 's to the kirk gane, The Queen's Marie (Child's Ballads, III. 115). When Alençon and myself were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm; if any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon, and an enemy to our person; if thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 7. 2. Specifically, a boxing-glove.-3. In hatmaking, a wooden scraper used in felting hats in the battery. It is tied to the hand.-Bishop's or episcopal gloves, the gloves which have formed part of a bishop's insignia in the Western Church since the ninth or tenth century. Also called chirotheca, and in older times gwantus (gantus, vantus, wantus, wanto) and manica. The episcopal glove, with its tassel, or tuft of silk, is well seen on Archbishop Chicheley's effigy, in Canterbury cathedral. Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 162, note. Glove of mail. See gauntlet1.-Hand and glove. See hand.-Hawk's glove, in falconry, a glove worn to protect the hand from the bird's talons. See hawking-glove. At Hampton Court, in the jewel house, were seven hawkes' gloves embroidered. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 92. To bite one's glove, to indicate determined and mortal hostility. Stern Rutherford right little said, But bit his glove, and shook his head. Scott, L. of L. M., vi. 7. To handle without gloves, to treat without hesitation; deal with in a vigorous manner and without ceremony or squeamishness.-To take up the glove, to accept a challenge. To throw down the glove, to challenge to single combat. See under gauntlet1. glove (gluv), v. t.; pret. and pp. gloved, ppr. gloving. [glove, n.] To cover with or as with a glove. usually the form of a nearly quadrangular buckler, from 8 to 10 inches wide and a little longer, fixed to a gauntlet which could be secured round the wrist; in this way the buckler was held firmly, and could not be struck from the hand. Also called gauntlet-shield. glove-silver (gluv'silver), n. Same as glovemoney. glove-sponge (gluv'spunj), n. A finger-sponge. glove-stretcher (gluv'strech"èr), n. A scissorsshaped instrument for insertion into the fingers of gloves to stretch them, that they may be more easily drawn on. Its action is the reverse of that of scissors. Glove-shield, 15th century. (From Violletle-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") gloving (gluv'ing), n. [< glove, n., + -ing1.] The making of gloves; the occupation of a glover. = = The gloving brings a large amount of comfort into the homes of the peasantry of the west [of England]. Library Mag., July, 1886, p. 263. glow (glō), v. [< ME. glowen, < AS. glowan (pret. gleów, pp. *glowen) D. gloeijen = MLG. gloien, glögen =OHG. gluoen, MHG. glüen, glüejen, G. glühen = Icel. gloa, glow, glitter, shine, Sw. dial. and Dan. glo, glow (and with a deflected sense, Sw. Dan. glo, stare). Hence gleed1, gloom (gloam, glum), and gloss1, akin to gloat, glout, glore, glower, and perhaps, remotely, to glad, glade1, glarel, glass, glim, glimmer, Must glove this hand. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. glisten, etc.] I. intrans. 1. To burn with an intense heat, especially without flame; give forth bright light and heat; be incandescent. Now the wasted brands do glow. Shak., M. N. D., v. 2. And was to him beholding it most like A little spark extinguish'd to the eye That glows again ere suddenly it die. Hence therefore, thou nice crutch; A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, A Hauke hee esteemes the true burthen of Nobilitie, and is exceeding ambitious to seeme delighted in the sport, and haue his fist Glov'd with his Iesses. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, An Vp-start Countrey My right hand will be gloved, Janet, The Young Tamlane (Child's Ballads, I. 121). glove-band (gluv'band), n. A strap or ribbon formerly used to confine the glove round the wrist or arm. They were sometimes made of horsehair so woven as to be elastic; ribbons tied in ornamental bows were also at one time fashionable. glove-buttoner (gluv'but"n-er), n. A small button-hook used for buttoning gloves. Also called glove-clasp. glove-calf (gluv'käf), n. A kind of calfskin or morocco leather. See the extract. Glove-calf and glove-sheep are also subnames for Morocco leather, and are used principally for toppings for button, laced, and congress [shoes]. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 525. glove-clasp (gluvʼklåsp), n. 1. A glove-band. -2. Same as glove-buttoner. glove-fight (gluv'fit), n. A pugilistic contest in which the hands are covered with boxinggloves. A hook used in fas Some hook (gluv'hük), n. tening gloves. glove-leather (gluv'leTH'èr), n. Leather for making gloves. glove-money (gluv'mun'i), n. A gratuity given to servants ostensibly to buy them gloves; hence, formerly, extraordinary rewards given to officers of English courts, etc.; also, money given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders were left for execution to the clerk of assize and the judges' officers. Also glove-silver. glow-lamp 6. To be intense or vehement; have or exhibit force, ardor, or animation. Shadwell. Love... glows, and with a sullen heat, Like fire in logs, it warms us long. How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 230. 7. To stare with amazement. [Prov. Eng.] II. trans. To heat so as to produce color or brilliancy; produce a flush in. Pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. glow (glo), n. [< glow, v.] 1. Shining heat, or white heat; incandescence. O Vulcan, what a glow! A waving glow his bloomy beds display, Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 83. A pageant truly play'd, Between the pale complexion of true love And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 4. If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 6. A glow of pleasure follows the solution of a puzzling question, even though the question be not worth solving. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 517. Same as glowbird. glowbardt, n. glowbason (glō'ba "sn), n. A glow-worm. [Prov. Eng.] glowbirdt (glo'bėrd), n. [Early mod. E. globird, glowbard, globard, globerd, etc., < ME. glouberd, glowen, glow,+ berd, bird, bird. Cf. ladybird, the name of another coleopterous insect; and cf. glow-worm.] The glow-worm. Globerde, a flye, ung ver qui reluyt de nuyt. Palsgrave. Hec noctiluca, a glouberd. Wright, Vocab. (ed. Wülcker). Now the signe common to them both, testifying as well the ripenesse of the one as the seednes of the other, are the glo-birds or glo-worms, cicindele, shining in the evening over the cornfields. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 26. glower, glour (glou'èr, glour), v. i. [Also glowr; a var. of glore, < ME. gloren, a parallel form to glaren, glare: see glore, glare1] To look intently or watchfully; stare angrily or threateningly; frown. As Tammie glower'd, amaz'd and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. Burns, Tam o' Shanter. He... sat in his stockings, with his feet on the stovehearth, looking hugely dissatisfied, and glowering at his grandparents. J. T. Trowbridge, Coupon Bonds, p. 203. Drayton, Legend of Matilda. glower, glour (glou'èr, glour), n. [< glower, glour, v.] An angry or threatening stare. What shall I say of our three brigadiers, Of strength prodigious, and of looks so froward, glowing (glō'ing), n. [Verbal n. of glow, v.] 1. Persons who pretend to feel A Chirche and a Chapaile with chambers a-lofte, A little stoop there may be to allay him (He would grow too rank else), a small eclipse to shadow him; But out he must break glowingly again. Fletcher, Wit without Money, iv. 1. An electric lamp in which the light is produced by the incandescence of a resisting substance (as carbon), inof electricity. See electric light, under electric. duced by the passage through it of a current While the arc-lamp emits twenty-two hundred candlelight per horse-power, and the glow-lamp gives but a hundred and twenty, it is the possibility of so reducing the light to a minimum that has brought the latter system forward. Science, V. 342 glow-worm glow-worm (glo'werm), n. [Formerly also You gaudy glow-worms, carrying seeming fire, Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, iv. 1. Even as the glow-worm, which makes a goodly shew among the grass of the field, would be of little avail if Scott, Monastery, xviii. deposited in a beacon-grate. Gloxinia (glok-sin'i-a), n. [NL., named after Gloxin, a German physician.] 1. A genus of gesneraceous plants, low and almost stemless, A variety of Gloxinia. with creeping rhizomes and large, nodding, bellshaped flowers. There are 6 species, natives of tropical America, several of which are very common in greenhouses, and have given rise to numerous hybrids and varieties. 2. [l. c.] A plant of this genus; also, the garden name of tuberous-rooted plants of the genus Sinningia. glozet (glōz), n. = = = = = = = = = [Early mod. E. also glose; < And who so leueth nougte this be soth, loke in the sauter Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 34. 2548 = glue All of its neutral salts are soluble. whence verbal n. glesung, spelled glesincg), ex- idly from the air, and its solution has a decidedly sour taste. = D. glozen: Icel. glosa, explain plain, gloss, OF. gloser, gloss, ex- glucina (glö-sï'nä), n. [NL., <Gr. yukis, sweet.] by a gloss, chatter, beryllium. Pure glucina is white, tasteless, without Sp. glosar Pg. plain, interpret, F. gloser, gloss, carp at, find The only oxid (BeO) of the metal glucinum or fault with,= Pr. glozar quid fixed alkalis. Also glueine and beryllia. glosar, glossar = It. glosare, < ML. glossare (also odor, and quite insoluble in water, but soluble in the liglosare), explain, gloss, LL. glossa, a gloss: glucinum (glö-si'num), n. [NL., < Gr. 72vкUS, see gloze, n., and gloss2, n. and e.] I. trans. sweet.] Chemical symbol, Be or Gl; atomic 1t. To explain; expound; comment upon: same weight, 9.1. A white metal, of specific gravity 2.1. It belongs to the group of the alkaline earths, and is prepared from beryl (whence it is also called beryllium). as gloss2, v. t., 1. Native compounds are rare. Besides the common mineral beryl, it occurs in the oxid chrysoberyl, in the silicates euclase, phenacite, and bertrandite, and a few others, also in the phosphates herderite and beryllonite; the lastnamed is a phosphate of beryllium and sodium. Many of the salts of this metal have a sweet taste. Glosynge the gospel as hem good liketh, Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 49. glucohemia, glucohæmia (glö-kō-hē’mi-ä), n. hadde do euer be-forn. Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 509. Than be-gan she to glose Merlin more than euer she Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 680. 3. To put a fair face upon; gloss over; extenuate. not saye agaynst it, the Duke of Glocestre was so sore dred. [NL. glucohamia, Gr. 12vkiç, sweet, + aiua, blood.] In pathol., the presence of an excessive quantity of glucose in the blood. [ Gr. γλυκές, glucometer (glö-kom'e-tér), n. sweet, +μerpov, a measure.] An instrument for testing the percentage of sugar in wine or must. glucose (glö'kōs), n. [< Gr. yλukiç, sweet, + Some glosed those wordes, and some thought in their co-ose.] 1. The name of a group of sugars havrage that the answere was not reasonable, but they dursting the formula C6H12O6, which may be regarded as aldehydes of hexatomic alcohols. They are less sweet than cane-sugar. One or more of them constitute the sugar of fruits, and they are produced from cane-sugar, dextrine, starch, cellulose, etc., by the action of acids, certain ferments, and other reagents, and by processes going on in living plants. The two bestknown varieties, distinguished by their action on polarized light, are dextroglucose, dextrose, or grape-sugar, which turns the plane of polarization to the right, and levoglucose, levulose, or fruit-sugar, which turns it to the Like to a doting mother, glozes over Paris, and Troilus, you have both said well; Shak., T. and C., ii. 2. tery. Who that couthe glose softe Gower, Conf. Amant., III. 170. He that no more must say is listen'd more glozert (gloʻzer), n. [Early mod. E. also glo- It is necessary that I be the declarer or gloser of mine Be no glosere nor no mokere, glozing (glo'zing), n. [< ME. glosynge; verbal glozinglyt (glo'zing-li), adv. Flatteringly. Swiche slomerers in slepe slauthe is her ende, And natheles men yt trowede [not] and levede [believed] With less observance shunne grosse flattery, 3. Specious show; gloss. bere, globbere; glub+-eri.] 1. A glutton. According to M. Buignet's investigations, the cause of the change of the primarily formed cane sugar into fructose is not the acids of the fruits, but appears to depend on the influence of a nitrogenous body playing the part of a glucosic ferment. R. Bentley, Manual of Botany, p. 783. glucoside (glö'ko-sid or -sid), n. [< glucose + -ide1.] One of a class of compounds widely distributed in the vegetable world, which, treated with acids, alkalis, or certain ferments, are resolved into a sugar, an acid, and sometimes another organic principle. Tannic acid, for example, is a glucoside resolvable into glucose and gallic acid. The glucosides may be regarded as compound ethers. glucosuria (glö-ko-sü'ri-ä), n. [NL., <Gr. y2vKUÇ, sweet (see glucose), +oupov, urine.] In pathol., the presence of glucose in the urine. See diabetes. glucupicront, ". [Gг. уλνкьжIкроv, neut. of yλvκύπικρος, sweet-bitter, < γλυκύς, sweet, + πικρός, bitter, sharp.] A bitter-sweet thing. Our whole life is a glucupricon [read glucupicron), a bitter sweet passion. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 342. glue (glö), n. [Formerly also glew; <ME. glue, glu, glew, OF. glu, F. glu, birdlime, = Pr. glut, <LL. glus (glut-), glue; cf. gluten (glutin-), also glutinum, glue; glutus, tenacious, well-tempered, soft, pp. of an unused verb *gluere, draw together; akin to Gr. yoós, glue, gluten, adj. slippery, yhoia, yhia, glue.] A viscous adhesive substance used as a cement for uniting pieces of wood or other material, or in combination with other substances to give body or to make rollers, molds, packing, etc. The glue in ordinary use is common or impure gelatin, obtained by boiling animal It is also emsubstances, as skin, hoofs, etc., in water. ployed by textile colorists, for the reason that its solutions are precipitated by tannic acid, and the precipitate so produced attracts many of the coal-tar colors from their solutions. In this respect it serves as a fixing-agent for the tannic acid; but as a nitrogenous albuminoid substance, it may at the same time act as a mordant. A kind of glue is made in Japan from Gloopeltis intricata, which is used to stiffen thread, to cleanse and soften the hair, for paint ing on porcelain, and for attaching paper hangings to plastered walls. Therefore he that keepeth that one only commaundement of loue keepeth all. With this glue shall we be fast J. Udall, On John iv. ioyned to Christ, so that he be in us, and we againe in him. Albumen glue, partially decayed gluten obtained from wheat flour in the manufacture of starch.- Casein glue. See casein.-Cologne glue, a very pale strong glue obtained from offal, which is first limed and then bleached with a solution of chlorid of lime.-Elastic glue, a prepa of printers' inking-rollers, and for making elastic figures, ration of glue and glycerin. It is used in the composition galvanoplastic molds, etc. In a glue, in soap-making, of the viscid consistency of liquid glue. W. L. Carpenter, Soap and Candles, p. 167.-Liquid glue, common glue permanently liquefied by treatment with either nitric or acetic acid, and put up in bottles for ready use. - Marine glue glue, a strongly adhesive preparation of caoutchouc dissolved in naphtha or oil of turpentine, with shellac added in the proportion of two or three parts to one by weight, run into plates and dried: so called because it is unaffected by water, and is therefore adapted for use on ship-timbers. -Mouth or lip glue, ordinary dissolved glue to each pound of which one half-pound of sugar has been added. It forms solid cakes, which are readily soluble, and for use may be moistened with the tongue.-Vegetable glue. See the extract. For 250 grains of the concentrated gum solution (prepared with two parts of gum [arabic] and five of water), two grains of cryst. aluminum sulphate will suffice. This salt is dissolved in ten times its quantity of water, and mixed directly with the mucilage, which in this condition may be termed vegetable glue. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 105. Water-proof glue, isinglass boiled in milk. (See also fish-glue.) glue (glö), v.; pret. and pp. glued, ppr. gluing. [< ME. gluen, glewen, < OF. gluer, gluier, gluyer, F. gluer, glue, stick together; from the noun.j I. trans. 1. To join with glue or other viscous substance; stick or hold fast. Their bowes are of wood of a yard long, sinewed at the back with strong sinewes, not glued too, but fast girded Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 37. and tied on. This cold congealed blood Let men glewe on us the name; Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1761. the people who were walking about. gloom, v., of which glum is but another form glumpy (glum'pi), a. [< glump + -y1; cf. glum- "Oure syre syttes," he says, "on sege [seat] so hyze And not Athens only, but so austere and glum a gener. George Eliot, Middlemarch, I. 253. II. n. A sullen look; a frown. She loked hawtly, and gaue on me a glum. Skelton, Garland of Laurel, 1. 1117. macea. glumal (glö'mal), a. [<NL. glumalis, <L. gluma, a husk: see glume.] Same as glumaceous. malis: see glumal.] Same as Glumacea. Glumales (glö-mā'lēz), n. pl. [NL., pl. of gluglume (glöm), n. [= F. glume 1 Sp. Pg. It. gluma, ‹ L. glūma, a hull or husk, orig. *glubma, glubere, bark, peel, cast off the shell or bark.] A chaffy bract or bractlet characterizing the which the use of plaisters in wounds chiefly consists: the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, and other Glu II. intrans. To stick fast; adhere; unite; cling. In most wounds, if kept clean, and from the air; for flesh will glew together with its own native balm. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, iii. 2. glue-boiler (glö’boi ̋lèr), n. 1. One whose oc- to melt. gluer (glö ́ér), n. One who or that which glues; one who cements with glue. glue-size (glö'siz), n. A solution of one pound of glue in a gallon of water. Car-Builder's Dict. glue-stock (glö'stok), n. Materials from which glue is to be prepared, as hides, hoofs, etc. All stag, tainted, and badly scored, grubby, or murrain hides are called damaged, and must go at two-thirds price, unless they are badly damaged, when they are classed as glue stock. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 55. gluey (glö ́i), a. [Also gluy, and formerly glewy, glewey; ME. gluwy, glewy; < glue +-y1.] Like glue; viscous; glutinous; sticky. To preve it fatte, a clodde avisely To take, and with gode water weel it wete, Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. Addison, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. macea. By some early botanists the term was also ap- There was a thin film of fluid between the coats of the Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 333. glumella (glö-mel'ä), n. [NL., dim. of L. gluma, He was glumpy enough when I called. glumsh (glumsh), v. i. T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney. [Var. of glunch.] Same [Also glumsh, glumch, an Cf. glumps, glummish.] be in a dogged humor. An' whan her marriage day does come, glunch (glunch), n. [< glunch, v.] A sudden glut (glut), .; pret. and pp. glutted, ppr. glut And glutting of meals which weakeneth the body. Though every drop of water swear against it, 2. To fill to the extent of capacity; feast or de- There is no greuaunce so grete vndur god one, You're too greedy, The menstruum, being already glutted, could not act Three horses that have broken fence, glumiferous (glo-mif'e-rus), a. [< NL. glumi- lowed. ner; with moroseness. They all sat glumly on the ground. C. D. Warner, Winter on the Nile, p. 340. An ilex tree mous. Such casual blasts may happen as are most to be feared, when the weather waxeth darke and glummy. E. Knight, Tryall of Truth (1580), fol. 27. glumness (glum ́nes), n. The condition or charglueyness (glö’i-nes), n. The state or quality acter of being glum; sullenness. Trollope. of being gluey. Imp. Dict. glumose (glö'mōs), a. [< glume + -ose.] Gluglugt, n. [ME., a var. of clog.] A clod. glumous (glö’mus), a. [< glume + -ous.] In bot., having a glume. glump (glump), v. i. [Another form of glum, gloom, v.] To show sullenness by one's manner; appear sulky. [Colloq.] glumpish (glum'pish), a. [<glump + -ish1. Cf. glummish, gloomish.] Glum. hym gold. Place of safyr is stones, and the gluggis [L. gleba] of Wyclif, Job xxviii. 6 (Oxf.). Gluge's corpuscles. Same as granule-cells. gluing-press (glö'ing-pres), n. In bookbinding, a press of simple form which presses freshly glued books, and prevents the melted glue on them from soaking too far into the leaf. gluish (glö'ish), a. [< ME. glewish, < glu, glew, etc., ish1.] Resembling glue; having a viscous quality. glum (glum), v. i. [< ME. glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben, frown, look sullen: see Mr. Tom 'ull sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), l. 67. 2t. A swallowing; that which has been swalDisgorging foul Their devilish glut, chain'd thunderbolts, and hail Of iron globes. Milton, P. L., vi. 589. 3. More of something than is desired; a superabundance; so much as to cause displeasure or satiety, etc.; specifically, in com., an over-supply of any commodity in the market; a supply above the demand. Let him drinke a littel iulep made with clean water and sugar, or a litell small biere or ale, so that he drinke not a great glut, but in a lytel quantite. Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, ii. 27. They give no gluts of kindness to their wives. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. A glut of study and retirement in the first part of my The water some suppose to pass from the bottom of the sea to the heads of springs, through certain subterranean conduits or channels, until they were by some glut, stop, or other means arrested in their passage. Woodward. 5. A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]-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 |