devoid of gloves. Oposite of gloved.

One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.

White or red heat; incandscence.

The glowworm.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.

having a cheerless aspect or disposition.

softly bright or radiant.

In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.

An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.

A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larv/ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.

American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

A flatterer.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar; as, glucic acid.

A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.

A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium.

See Glycogen.

Glycogenesis.

Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose.

One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.

A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus.

To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.

affixed with glue or paste.

A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue.

One who cements with glue.

Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

Viscidity.

Somewhat gluey.

To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.

The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelet.

One of the palets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

Dark; gloomy; dismal.

Moodiness; sullenness.

To manifest sullenness; to sulk.

Glum; sullen; sulky.

Frowning; sulky; sullen. A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.

That which is swallowed.

Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.

Any of several muscles in the buttocks of man and most mammals, especially the great muscle of the buttock (the gluteus maximus); also, the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

Of or pertaining to gluten.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.

A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glut/us.

The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

Same as Glut/us.

To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together.

The act of uniting with glue; sticking together.

Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.

The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.

The quality of being glutinous.

overfull; filled to excess; as, a glutted market.

To glut; to eat voraciously.

Gluttonous; greedy.

To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize.

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.

Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin.

A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.

An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It may be obtained by saponification of fats and oils. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.

Same as Glycerin.

A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.

Same as Glycocoll.

A salt of glycocholic acid; as, sodium glycocholate.

Pertaining to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid.

Same as Glycocoll.

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.

A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.

The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.

Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver.

A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin. Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.-- diol -->

Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.

A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allanto/n.

A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

Glyconic.

Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. A glyconic verse.

An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

One of a class of carbohydrates having from three to nine atoms of carbon in the molecules and having the constitution either of an aldehyde alcohol or of a ketone alcohol. Most glycoses have hydrogen and oxygen present in the proportion to form water, while the number of carbon atoms is usually equal to the number of atoms of oxygen.

An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.

An apparatus for determining the amount of sugar in diabetic urine.

Same as Glucosuria.

From, or pertaining to, glycyrrhizin; as, glycyrrhizimic acid.

A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.

A glen. See Glen. [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.]

A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid.

A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.

A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

Of or pertaining to glyphography.

A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.

The art of engraving on precious stones.

An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth.

One of a family (Glyptodontid/) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.

Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones.

The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

Same as Clyster.

A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.

A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.

a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.

Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

To grind or strike the teeth together.

With gnashing.

A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

Of or pertaining to the jaw.

The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.

Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxill/, and maxillipeds.