A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
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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.
To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
partially or totally dark.
In a gloomy manner.
State of being gloomy.
Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
Gloom.
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished.
To glare; to glower.
A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches. A portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the Episcopal Church the version in English is used. The musical setting of a gloria.
Boast; a triumphing.
Illustrious; honorable; noble.
The act of glorifying or of giving glory to.
accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing.
An aureole.
A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.
A boaster.
A boaster.
Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
See Gloze.
See Glosser.
To make comments; to comment; to explain.
The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
In the manner of a glossary.
A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
The Lepidoptera.
A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.
A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.
A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only.
In a glossy manner.
A blood-sucking African fly that transmits sleeping sickness etc.; the tsetse fly.
The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface.
A writer of comments.
Inflammation of the tongue.
Like gloss; specious.
A kind of hoisting winch.
Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.
A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
Of or pertaining to glossography.
The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.
Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.
The gift of tongues. Farrar.
Of or pertaining to glossology.
One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.
Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.
Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
The lead glaze used for pottery.
Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic.
Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.
The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.
Of or pertaining to glottology.
A linguist; a philologist.
The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at.
To cover with, or as with, a glove.
having the hands covered with gloves. Opposite of gloveless.
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