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.

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.

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.

A salt of glyceric acid.

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.