Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 23
Glaive (n.) A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
Glaive (n.) A sword; -- used poetically and loosely.
Glama (n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
Glamorize (v.) [ T ] (UK usually glamorize) 美化；使更有魅力 To make something seem better than it is and therefore more attractive.
// The ad glamorized life in the army, emphasizing travel and adventure.
Glamourous or glamorous (a.) 富有魅力的；迷人的 Having an air of allure, romance and excitement; as, glamorous movie stars.
Glamorous (a.) Having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars" [syn: {glamorous}, {glamourous}].
Glamour (n.) [U] 魅力，誘惑力；迷人的美；妖豔 A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
Glamour (n.) Witchcraft; magic; a spell. -- Tennyson.
Glamour (n.) A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. -- W. Black.
Glamour (n.) Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
Glamour gift, Glamour might, The gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women.
It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. -- Sir W. Scott.
Glamour (n.) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) [syn: glamor, glamour].
Glamour (v.) (v. t.) 使著魔；迷住；迷惑；使有魅力；美化 [（+up）] Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something [syn: hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx].
Glamourie (n.) Glamour. [Scot.]
Glamourless (a.) Without glamour.
Glance (n.) [C] 一瞥；掃視 [（+at/ into/ over/ through）]；擦過，掠過A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Swift as the lightning glance. -- Milton.
Glance (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. -- Shak.
Glance (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
How fleet is a glance of the mind. -- Cowper.
Glance (n.) (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
Glance coal, Anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon.
Glance cobalt, Cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, Chalcocite.
Glance wood, A hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. -- McElrath.
Glance (v. t.) 用（眼睛）掃視；瞥見；擦過；使擦過 To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
Glance (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]
In company I often glanced it. -- Shak.
Glanced (imp. & p. p.) of Glance.
Glancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glance.
Glance (v. i.) （粗略地）看一下，一瞥；掃視 [Q] [（+at/ round/ over/ through）]；簡略提及；影射 [（+at）]；閃爍，閃耀 To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. -- Tennyson.
Glance (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". -- Shak.
On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. -- Milton.
Glance (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. -- Shak.
Glance (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. -- Shak.
He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. -- Swift.
Glance (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. -- Macaulay.
Glance (n.) A quick look [syn: glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil].
Glance (v.) Throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting" [syn: glance, peek, glint].
Glance (v.) Hit at an angle.
Glancing (a.) Shooting, as light.
When through the gancing lightnings fly. -- Rowe.
Glancing (a.) 斜的，偏的；間接的；附帶的；glance 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
Glancingly (adv.) In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly. -- Hakewill.
Gland (n.) (Anat.) 【解】腺 [C] An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
Gland (n.) (Anat.) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
Note: The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as the pancreas.
Gland (n.) (Bot.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
Gland (n.) (Bot.) Any very small prominence.
Gland (n.) (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of {Stuffing box, under {Stuffing}.
Gland (n.) (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
Gland (n.) Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream [syn: {gland}, {secretory organ}, {secretor}, {secreter}].
Glandage (n.) A feeding on nuts or mast.
Glandered (a.) Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse.
Glanderous (a.) Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders.
Glanders (n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
Glandiferous (a.) Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
Glandiform (a.) Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
Glandular (a.) 腺的；腺狀的 Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
Glandular (a.) Relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland; "glandular malfunctions".
Glandulation (n.) The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
Glandule (n.) A small gland or secreting vessel.
Glanduliferous (a.) Bearing glandules.
Glandulose (a.) Same as Glandulous.
Glandulosity (n.) Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands.
Glandulous (a.) Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
Glandes (n. pl. ) of Glans.
Glans (n.) 【解】 陰莖頭；陰蒂頭 The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
Glans (n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
Glans (n.) Goiter.
Glans (n.) A pessary.
Glans penis (n.) 龜頭 The conical mass of erectile tissue that forms the head of the penis.
Glans penis (n.) The conical expansion of the corpus spongiosum that forms the head of the penis.
Glared (imp. & p. p.) of Glare.
Glaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glare.
Glare (v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
Glare (v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
Glare (v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
Glare (v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Glare (n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
Glare (n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.
Glare (n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
Glare (n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
Glare (n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
Glareous (a.) Glairy.
Glariness (n.) Alt. of Glaringness.
Glaringness (n.) A dazzling luster or brilliancy.
Glaring (a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.
Glary (a.) Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.
Glass (n.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament. Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow.
Glass (n.) (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
Glass (n.) Anything made of glass. Especially:
Glass (n.) A looking-glass; a mirror.
Glass (n.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
She would not live The running of one glass. -- Shak.
Glass (n.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
Glass (v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
Glass (v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.
Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
Bohemian glass, Cut glass, etc. See under Bohemian, Cut, etc.
Crown glass, A variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing.
Crystal glass, or Flint glass. See Flint glass, in the Vocabulary.
Cylinder glass, Sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened.
Glass of antimony, A vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide.
Glass cloth, A woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
Glass coach, A coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] -- Smart.
Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. -- J. F. Cooper.
Glass cutter. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets.
Glass cutter. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing.
Glass cutter. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass.
Glass cutting. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond.
Glass cutting. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
Glass metal, The fused material for making glass.
Glass painting, The art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see Glass staining, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like.
Glass paper, Paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes.
Glass silk, Fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
Glass silvering, The process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
Glass soap, or Glassmaker's soap, The black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass.
Glass staining, The art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting.
Glass tears. See Rupert's drop.
Glass works, An establishment where glass is made.
Heavy glass, A heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash.
Millefiore glass. See Millefiore.
Plate glass, A fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows.
Pressed glass, Glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot.
Soluble glass (Chem.), A silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also water glass.
Spun glass, Glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
Toughened glass, Tempered glass, Glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, Bastie glass.
Water glass. (Chem.) See Soluble glass, above.
Window glass, Glass in panes suitable for windows.
Glassed (imp. & p. p.) of Glass.
Glassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glass.
Glass (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. -- Motley.
Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. -- Byron.
Glass (v. t.) To case in glass. [R.] -- Shak.
Glass (v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. -- Boyle.
Glass (v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. glassblower
Glass (n.) A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.
Glass (n.) A container for holding liquids while drinking [syn: glass, drinking glass].
Glass (n.) The quantity a glass will hold [syn: glass, glassful].
Glass (n.) A small refracting telescope [syn: field glass, glass, spyglass].
Glass (n.) An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant [syn: methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash].
Glass (n.) A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror [syn: looking glass, glass].
Glass (n.) Glassware collectively; "She collected old glass".
Glass (v.) Furnish with glass; "glass the windows" [syn: glass, glaze].
Glass (v.) Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars.
Glass (v.) Enclose with glass; "glass in a porch" [syn: glass, glass in].
Glass (v.) Put in a glass container.
Glass (v.) Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored" [syn: glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over].
Glass (n.) [IBM] Synonym for silicon.
GLASS, () General LAnguage for System Semantics.
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Glass, () (IBM) Silicon. [{Jargon File]
Glass, () Was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both useful and ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A glass bottle with the name of Sargon on it was found among the ruins of the north-west palace of Nimroud. The Hebrew word _zekukith_ (Job 28:17), rendered in the Authorized Version "crystal," is rightly rendered in the Revised Version "glass." This is the only allusion to glass found in the Old Testament. It is referred to in the New Testament in Rev. 4:6; 15:2; 21:18, 21. In Job 37:18, the word rendered "looking-glass" is in the Revised Version properly rendered "mirror," formed, i.e., of some metal. (Comp. Ex. 38:8: "looking-glasses" are brazen mirrors, R.V.). A mirror is referred to also in James 1:23.
Glass-crab (n.) (Zool.) The larval state ({Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
Phyllosoma (n.) (Zool.) The larva of the spiny lobsters ({Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp.
Glassen (a.) Glassy; glazed.
[Obs.]
And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. -- B. Jonson.
Glasseye (n.) (Zool.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
Glasseye (n.) (Far.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis. --Youatt.
Compare: Wall-eye
Wall-eye (n.) [See Wall-eyed.] An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. -- Booth.
Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. --Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
Wall-eye (Zool.), (a) An American fresh-water food fish ({Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.
Wall-eye (Zool.), (b) A California surf fish ({Holconotus argenteus).
Wall-eye (Zool.), (c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Glass-faced (a.) Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." -- Shak.
Glassfuls (n. pl. ) of Glassful.
Glassful (n.) The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.
Glassful (a.) Glassy; shining like glass. [Obs.] "Minerva's glassful shield." -- Marston.
Glassful (n.) The quantity a glass will hold [syn: glass, glassful].
Glass-gazing (a.) Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [Poetic] -- Shak.
Glasshouse (n.) 【主英】溫室；玻璃工場 A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
Glasshouse (n.) A building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions [syn: greenhouse, nursery, glasshouse].
Glassily (adv.) So as to resemble glass.
Glassiness (n.) The quality of being glassy.
Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass. Glass maker
Glass maker (n.) Alt. of Glassmaker.
Glassmaker (n.) One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
Glass-rope (n.) (Zool.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
Compare: Hyalonema
Hyalonema (n.) (Zool.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species ({Hyalonema Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
Glass-snail (n.) (Zool.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
Glass Snails (Vitrinidae) (n.) The name Glass Snails is due to the glassy translucent and fragile shell of those small snails (their body size is less than 20 mm). Several native glass snail species mostly live on the ground in sufficiently humid and cool places, below decaying leaves and moss, near springs and at the side of creeks, in the mountains also in high altitudes. Glass snails only appear above ground when the weather becomes colder and wet during autumn. They remain active during the winter and even can be found below thawing snow. Because glass snails are so indifferent to coldness, their area of distribution reaches quite far North: It extends beyond the Arctic Circle. In the mountains there are species living in altitudes above 3000 m MSL. Many glass snail species also take profit from their resistance against coldness in feeding on other snails during their hibernation.
Compare: Vitrinidae
Vitrinidae (n.) Vitrinidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Limacoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Vitrinidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Compare: Limacoidea
Limacoidea (n.) 蛞蝓總科 Is a taxonomic superfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing land slugs and snails. They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The Helixarionoidea were previously placed in this superfamily.
Glass-snake (n.) (Zool.) A long, footless lizard ({Ophiosaurus ventralis}), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.
Glass-snake (n.) (In British) Any snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, of Europe, Asia, and North America, with vestigial hind limbs and a tail that breaks off easily: family Anguidae.
Glass-sponge (n.) (Zool.) A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
Glass-sponge (n.) Glass sponge, any of a class (Hexactinellida, also called Hyalospongiae, or Triaxonia) of sponges characterized by a skeleton that consists of silica spicules (needlelike structures) often united into a delicate geometric network -- e.g., that of Venus’s flower basket (q.v.). Glass sponges occur mainly on muddy sea bottoms at great depths.
Glass sponge (n.) A deep-water sponge which has a skeleton of intricately shaped spines of silica that may fuse to form a filmy lattice with a glass-like appearance.
Glassware (n.) 玻璃器皿 Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
Glassware (n.) An article of tableware made of glass [syn: glassware, glasswork].
Glasswork (n.) 玻璃製造業；玻璃製品 Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
Glasswork (n.) An article of tableware made of glass [syn: glassware, glasswork].
Glasswort (n.) (Bot.) 歐洲海蓬子；厚岸草 A seashore plant of the Spinach family ({Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family ({Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
Glasswort (n.) Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kali}, {kelpwort}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}].
Glasswort (n.) Fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass [syn: {glasswort}, {samphire}, {Salicornia europaea}].
Glasswort (n.) The common name glasswort came into use in the 16th century to describe plants growing in England whose ashes could be used for making soda-based (as opposed to potash-based) glass. [1] [2] The glassworts are succulent, annual halophytes, or plants that thrive in saline environments, such as seacoasts and salt marshes. While the original English glasswort plants belong to the genus Salicornia, the term has been extended over the years to halophyte plants from several genera, some of which are native to continents unknown to the medieval English, and growing in ecosystems, such as mangrove swamps, never envisioned when the term glasswort was coined.