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 Glaze.
Glazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glaze.
Glaze (v. t.) To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.
Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. -- Bacon.
Glaze (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.
Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. -- Shak.
Glase (v. t.) (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
Glase (v. t.) (Cookery) To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored.
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. -- Ure.
Glaze (n.) (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
Glaze (n.) 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].
Compare: Glassed
Glassed, glazed (a.) Fitted or covered with glass; as, a glassed wall. Opposite of unglazed.
Glazed (a.) Same as glassed.
Syn: glassed.
Glazed (a.) Having a shiny surface or coating; as, glazed fabrics; glazed doughnuts. [Narrower terms: glassy, vitreous, vitrified; glossy, calendered; icy ; glac['e]] unglazed.
Syn: shiny.
Glazed (a.) Lacking liveliness; -- used of eyes; as, a glazed look.
Syn: glassy.
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. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
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.
Compare: Emery
Emery (n.) (Min.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
Emery board, Cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient.
Emery cloth or Emery paper, Cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing.
Emery wheel, A wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.
Glazer (n.) Someone who cuts flat glass to size [syn: glass cutter, glass-cutter, glassworker, glazier, glazer].
Glazier (n.) One whose business is to set glass.
Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond.
Glazier (n.) Someone who cuts flat glass to size [syn: glass cutter, glass-cutter, glassworker, glazier, glazer].
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.) (Paint.) 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. [Archaic]
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.]
Gleam (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights. -- Shak.
Gleam (v. i.) (Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Gleam (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Transient unexpected gleams of joi. -- Addison.
At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. -- Milton.
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. -- Longfellow.
Gleam (n.) Brightness; splendor.
In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen. -- Pope.
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.
Syn: To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter.
Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist; a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See Flash.
Gleam (n.) An appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency].
Gleam (n.) A flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: gleam, gleaming, glimmer].
Gleam (v.) Be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine].
Gleam (v.) Shine brightly, like a star or a light [syn: gleam, glimmer].
Gleam (v.) Appear briefly; "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind."
Gleamy (a.) Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.
In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. -- Pope.
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.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. -- Shak.
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.
Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. -- Locke.
Glean (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. -- Ruth ii. 3.
Glean (v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. -- Pope.
Glean (n.) A collection made by gleaning.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. -- Dryden.
Glean (n.) Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Glean (v.) Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: reap, harvest, glean].
Glean, () The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.)
Gleaner (n.) One who gathers after reapers.
Gleaner (n.) One who gathers slowly with labor. -- Locke.
Gleaner (n.) Someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters.
Gleaner (n.) Someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully.
Gleaning (n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
Glenings of natural knowledge. -- Cook.
Gleaning. () The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew, as may, have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered.
Gleaning. () There is a custom in England, it is said, by which the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another's land after harvest without being guilty of a trespass. 3 Bl. Com. 212 . But it has been decided that the community are not entitled to claim this privilege as a right. 1 Hen. Bl. 51. In the United States, it is believed, no such right exists. This right seems to have existed in some parts of France. Merl. Rep. mot Glanage. As to whether gleaning would or would not amount to larceny, vide Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 242; 2 Russ. on Cr. 99. The Jewish law may be found in the 19th chapter of Leviticus, verses 9 and 10. See Ruth, ii. 2, 3; Isaiah, xvii. 6.
Glebe (n.) A lump; a clod.
Glebe (n.) Turf; soil; ground; sod.
Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. -- Milton.
Glebe (n.) (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
Glebe (n.) Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
Glebe, () eccl. law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. Lind. 254; 9 Cranch, Rep. 329. In the civil law it signified the soil of an inheritance; there were serfs of the glebe, called gleboe addicti. Code, 11, 47, 7 et 21; Nov. 54, c. 1.
Glebeless (a.) Having no glebe.
Glebosity (n.) The quality of being glebous. [R.] Glebous
Glebous (a.) Alt. of Gleby.
Gleby (a.) Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." -- Prior.
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.]
Glede (n.) A live coal. [Archaic]
The cruel ire, red as any glede. -- Chaucer.
Glede, () An Old English name for the common kite, mentioned only in Deut. 14:13 (Heb. ra'ah), the Milvus ater or black kite. The Hebrew word does not occur in the parallel passage in Leviticus (11:14, da'ah, rendered "vulture;" in R.V., "kite"). It was an unclean bird. The Hebrew name is from a root meaning "to see," "to look," thus designating a bird with a keen sight. The bird intended is probably the buzzard, of which there are three species found in Palestine. (See VULTURE.)
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.]
Glede (n.) [See Gleed.] A live coal. [Archaic]
The cruel ire, red as any glede. -- Chaucer.
Glede, () An Old English name for the common kite, mentioned only in Deut. 14:13 (Heb. ra'ah), the Milvus ater or black kite. The Hebrew word does not occur in the parallel passage in Leviticus (11:14, da'ah, rendered "vulture;" in R.V., "kite"). It was an unclean bird. The Hebrew name is from a root meaning "to see," "to look," thus designating a bird with a keen sight. The bird intended is probably the buzzard, of which there are three species found in Palestine. (See VULTURE.)
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. -- Hoblyn.
Gleet (v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. -- Wiseman.
Gleet (v. i.) To flow slowly, as water. -- Cheyne.
Gleet (n.) A thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea.
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).
Glen, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 286
Housing Units (2000): 133
Land area (2000): 4.679696 sq. miles (12.120357 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006543 sq. miles (0.016947 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.686239 sq. miles (12.137304 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27540
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.859967 N, 88.418633 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38846
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Glenlivat (n.) Alt. of Glenlivet.