Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 24
Glassy (a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. -- Bacon.
Glassy (a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
Glassy (a.) Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. "In his glassy eye." -- Byron.
Glassy feldspar (Min.), A variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
Glassy (a.) Resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water" -- Willa Cather
Glassy (a.) (Used of eyes) Lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn: glassy, glazed].
Glassy (a.) (Of ceramics) Having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified].
Glasstonbury thorn () A variety of the common hawthorn.
Glasynge (n.) Glazing or glass. [Obs.]
Glauberite (n.) (Min.) A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.
Glauber's salt () Alt. of Glauber's salts.
Glauber's salts () Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."
Note: It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as the mineral mirabilite. It is manufactured in large quantities as an intermediate step in the "soda process," and also for use in glass making.
Sodium sulphate, () A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O.
Glaucescent (a.) Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.
Glaucic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to the Glaucium flavum or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.
Glaucine (a.) Glaucous or glaucescent.
Glaucine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
Glaucodot (n.) (Min.) A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.
Glaucoma (n.) (Med.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
Glaucoma (n.) An eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness); "contrary to popular belief, glaucoma is not always caused by elevated intraocular pressure".
Glaucomatous (a.) Having the nature of glaucoma.
Glaucometer (n.) See Gleucometer.
Glauconite (n.) (Min.) The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.
Glauconite (n.) A green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand.
Glaucophane (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.
Glaucosis (n.) (Med.) Same as Glaucoma.
Glaucous (a.) Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue. -- Lindley.
Glaucous (a.) (Bot.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. --Gray.
Glaucous (a.) Having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes".
Glaucus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
Glaum (v. i.) To grope with the hands, as in the dark. [Scot.]
To glaum at, To grasp or snatch at; to aspire to.
Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three. -- Burns.
Glave (n.) See Glaive.
Glaver (v. i.) To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.]
Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. -- Wyclif.
Glaver (v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle. [Obs.]
Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite. -- South.
Glaverer (n.) A flatterer. [Obs.] -- Mir. for Mag.
Glaymore (n.) A claymore. -- Johnson.
Glased (imp. & p. p.) of Glase.
Glazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glase.
Glase (v. t.) To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.
Glase (v. t.) To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.
Glase (v. t.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
Glaze (v. i.) To become glazed of glassy.
Glaze (n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.
Glaze (v. t.) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
Glaze (v. t.) A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
Glaze (n.) Any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods.
Glaze (n.) A glossy finish on a fabric.
Glaze (n.) A coating for ceramics, metal, etc.
Glaze (v.) Coat with a glaze; "the potter glazed the dishes"; "glaze the bread with eggwhite".
Glaze (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]
Glaze (v.) Furnish with glass; "glass the windows" [syn: glass, glaze].
Glaze (v.) Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn: sugarcoat, glaze, candy].
Glazed (a.) (Used of eyes) Lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn: glassy, glazed].
Glazed (a.) Fitted or covered with glass; "four glazed walls" [syn: glazed, glassed] [ant: glassless, unglazed].
Glazed (a.) Having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts" [syn: glazed, shiny] [ant: unglazed].
Glazed (a.) (Of foods) Covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture; "glazed doughnuts"; "a glazed ham".
Glazen (a.) Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.
Glazer (n.) 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.
Glazer (n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.
Glazier (n.) One whose business is to set glass.
Glazing (n.) The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.
Glazing (n.) The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.
Glazing (n.) The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.
Glazing (n.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.
Glazy (a.) Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
Glead (n.) A live coal. See Gleed.
Gleam (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Gleam (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Gleam (n.) Brightness; splendor.
Gleamed (imp. & p. p.) of Gleam.
Gleaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gleam.
Gleam (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
Gleam (v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
Gleam (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Gleamy (a.) Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.
Gleaned (imp. & p. p.) of Glean.
Gleaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glean.
Glean (v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
Glean (v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
Glean (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
Glean (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
Glean (v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
Glean (n.) A collection made by gleaning.
Glean (n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.
Gleaner (n.) One who gathers after reapers.
Gleaner (n.) One who gathers slowly with labor.
Gleaning (n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
Glebe (n.) A lump; a clod.
Glebe (n.) Turf; soil; ground; sod.
Glebe (n.) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
Glebeless (a.) Having no glebe.
Glebosity (n.) The quality of being glebous.
Glebous (a.) Alt. of Gleby.
Gleby (a.) Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
Glede (v. i.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.
Glede (n.) A live coal.
Glee (n.) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Glee (n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. -- Spenser.
Glee (n.) (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
Glee (n.) Great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness].
Glee (n.) Malicious satisfaction [syn: gloat, gloating, glee].
Gleed (v. i.) A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] -- Chaucer. Longfellow.
Glede (n.) (Zool.) The common European kite ({Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
Gleeful (a.) Merry; gay; joyous. -- Shak.
Gleeful (a.) Full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart" [syn: elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant].
Gleek (n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.]
Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ? -- Shak.
Gleek (n.) An enticing look or glance. [Obs.]
A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. -- Beau. & Fl.
Gleek (v. i.) To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Gleek (n.) A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [Obs.] -- Pepys. Evelyn.
Gleek (n.) Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [Obs.]
Gleemen (n. pl. ) of Gleeman.
Gleeman (n.) A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.
Gleen (v. i.) To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] -- Prior.
Gleesome (a.) Merry; joyous; gleeful.
Gleet (n.) (Med.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
Gleet (v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. -- Wiseman.
Gleet (v. i.) To flow slowly, as water. -- Cheyne.
Gleety (a.) Ichorous; thin; limpid. -- Wiseman.
Gleg (a.) Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [Scot.] -- Jamieson. Gleire
Gleire (n.) Alt. of Gleyre.
Gleyre (n.) See Glair. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Glen (n.) A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.
And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. -- Spenser. Glengarry
Glen (n.) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
Glenlivat (n.) Alt. of Glenlivet.