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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.

Glenlivet Glenlivat

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made.

Glenoid

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

Gleucometer

An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.

Gley

Asquint; askance; obliquely.

Gliadin

Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

Glib

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Glibly

In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

Glide

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

Glide path

the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide slope.

Glide slope

the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide path.

Glider

One who, or that which, glides.

Gliff

A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.

Glim

Brightness; splendor.

Glimmer

A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.

glimmery

shining softly and intermittently.

Glimpse

To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

Glint

To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

glinting

having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; as, glinting eyes; glinting water.

Glioma

A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

Glires

An order of mammals; the Rodentia.

Gliridae

A natural family of rodents including the dormice and other Old World forms.

Glis

The type genus of the Gliridae.

Glissade

A sliding, as down a snow slope.

Glissette

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

Glisten

To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

glistening

Reflecting light readily or in large amounts; having a surface luster; reflecting light directly rather than scattering it.

glitch

A fault or defect in a system, plan, or machine.

Glitter

A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.

Gloam

The twilight; gloaming.

Gloaming

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.

Gloar

To squint; to stare.

Gloat

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

glob

a compact mass, especially of a semiliquid or viscous substance; as, a glob of glue fell on my shoe.

global

involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; as, global war; global monetary policy.

Global Positioning System

A worldwide system of electronic navigation in which a vessel, aircraft or missile determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the transmission time from several orbiting satellites. GPS is more precise than any other navigation system available, yielding position accurate within 10 meters 95% of the time.

Globe

To gather or form into a globe.

Globefish

A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Globeflower

A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europ/us), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus.

Globigerina

A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.

globin

a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the protein part of hemoglobin.

Globose

Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.

Globular

Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.

Globularity

The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.

Globule

A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

Globuliferous

Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.

Globulimeter

An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.

Globulin

An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with h/matin to form h/moglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.

Globulite

A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.

Globy

Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular.

Glochidium

The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.

Glockenspiel

An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

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