To prate; to jabber; to babble.

A flatterer.

A claymore.

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

Same as glassed.

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

Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.

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.

One whose business is to set glass.

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

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

A live coal. See Gleed.

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

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

Cleaning; afterbirth.

One who gathers after reapers.

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

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

A lump; a clod.

Having no glebe.

The quality of being glebous.

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

A live coal.

A live or glowing coal; a glede.

Merry; gay; joyous.

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

A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

To glisten; to gleam.

Merry; joyous; gleeful.

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

Ichorous; thin; limpid.

Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

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

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.

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

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.

Glenoid.

See Glint.

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

See Glue.

Asquint; askance; obliquely.

See Glair.

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.

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Slippery; changeable.

In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

The quality of being glib.

An ogling look.

p. p. of Glide.

Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

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

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

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

p. p. of Glide.

One who, or that which, glides.

In a gliding manner.

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

A sneer; a flout.

Brightness; splendor.

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

shining softly and intermittently.

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

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

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

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

An order of mammals; the Rodentia.

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

The type genus of the Gliridae.

A sliding, as down a snow slope.

A gliding effect; gliding.

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.

Glimmer; mica.

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.

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

Glitter; luster.

In a glistering manner.

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

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

Glittering.

In a glittering manner.

The twilight; gloaming.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.

To squint; to stare.

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

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

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

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.

A glowworm.

Having the form of a globe; spherical.

To gather or form into a globe.

Shaped like a globe.

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.

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.

to travel all over the world for pleasure and sightseeing.

A genus comprising the pilot whales.

Having a round or globular tip.

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.

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

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

In a globular manner; globularly.

Sphericity.

Spherical.

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

The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.

Spherically.

Sphericity; globosity.

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

A little globule.

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.

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

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.

A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.

Globular; spherical; orbicular.

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

Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles.

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

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.

imp. of Glide.

One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.

To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.