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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.

Glaucic

Of or pertaining to the Glaucium flavum or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.

Glaucine

An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium flavum, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

Glaucodot

A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

Glaucoma

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

Glauconite

The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

Glaucophane

A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

Glaucous

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

Glaucus

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

Glaum

To grope with the hands, as in the dark.

Glaver

To prate; to jabber; to babble.

Glaze

The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.

glazed glassed

fitted or covered with glass; as, a glassed wall. Opposite of unglazed.

Glazen

Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.

Glazer

One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

Glazier

One whose business is to set glass.

Glazing

The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

Glazy

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

Glead

A live coal. See Gleed.

Gleam

To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

Gleamy

Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

Glean

Cleaning; afterbirth.

Gleaner

One who gathers after reapers.

Gleaning

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.

Gleba

The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.

Gleby Glebous

Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.

Gleed

A live or glowing coal; a glede.

Gleek

To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

Gleeman

A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

Gleen

To glisten; to gleam.

Gleet

To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.

Gleg

Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

Glen

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

Glengarry bonnet Glengarry

A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.

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