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Girth

To bind as with a girth.

Gisarm

A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.

Gist

A resting place.

Gith

The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

Gittith

A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.

Giusto

In just, correct, or suitable time.

Give

To give a gift or gifts.

give-and-go

A maneuver in which one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass.

Given

p. p. a. from Give, v.

givenness

the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed.

Giver

One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

Giving

The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

Glabella

The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.

Glabellum

The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

Glabrate

Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.

Glabrous

Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

glace

Smoothly coated with icing or crystals of sugar; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

Glacial

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.

Glacialist

One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.

Glaciate

To convert into, or cover with, ice.

Glacier

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

Glacious

Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.

Glacis

A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).

Glad

To be glad; to rejoice.

Gladden

To be or become glad; to rejoice.

gladdon

An iris (Iris foetidissima) with purple flowers and evil-smelling leaves; Southern and Western Europe and North Africa.

Gladen

Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially the European Iris f/tidissima.

Gladful

Full of gladness; joyful; glad.

Gladiate

Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

Gladiator

Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.

Gladiature

Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest.

Gladiole

A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag.

Gladius

The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.

Gladness

State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.

Gladstone

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

Glair

To smear with the white of an egg.

Glairin

A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.

Glairy

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy.

Glaive

A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.

Glama

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

Glance

To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

Glancingly

In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.

Glandered

Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse.

Glanderous

Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders.

Glanders

A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

Glandiferous

Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.

Glandiform

Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.

Glandular

Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.

Glandulation

The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.

Glandule

A small gland or secreting vessel.

Glandulosity

Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands.

Glandulous

Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.

Glare

Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.

Glareolidae

A natural family of Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers.

Glaring

Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.

Glary

Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.

Glasgow

The largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland.

Glass

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.

glass blower glassblower

someone skilled creating objects such as bottles, vases, or other decorative or practical items from molten glass, especially one whose occupation is to make objects by blowing and shaping hot glass in its viscous semiliquid state.

glass blowing glassblowing

The art and process of creating glass objects, by shaping glass when reduced by heat to a viscid state, using various manipulations with the hands, especially by inflating it by blowing through a tube. The process is used to manufacture a wide variety of useful and ornamental objects. The manufacture of simple glass objects has been automated, but complex glass objects are still made by the traditional hand processes.

Glass-crab

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

Glass-faced

Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.

Glass-gazing

Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.

Glass-rope

A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.

Glass-snail

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

Glass-snake

A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.

Glass-sponge

A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.

glasses

Same as eyeglasses. See eyeglass{1}.

Glasseye

A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

Glasshouse

A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

Glassite

A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is /no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding./ The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

Glassware

Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

Glasswork

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

Glasswort

A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.

Glassy

Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.

Glauberite

A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.

Glaucescent

Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.

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