Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 25
Glenlivet (n.) A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. -- W. E. Aytoun.
Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
Glenoidal (a.) Glenoid.
Glent (n. & v.) See Glint.
Gleucometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
Glew (n.) See Glue.
Gley (v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
Gley (adv.) Asquint; askance; obliquely.
Gliadin (n.) Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.
Glib (a.) 能言善道的，善辯的；圓滑的，油嘴滑舌的 Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
Glib (a.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. -- Shak.
Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
Glib (v. t.) To make glib. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Glib (n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.[Obs.]
The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. -- Spenser.
Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. -- Southey.
Glib (v. t.) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Glib (a.) Marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question".
Glib (a.) Having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial" [syn: {glib}, {pat}, {slick}].
Glib (a.) Artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth- tongued hypocrite" [syn: {glib}, {glib-tongued}, {smooth- tongued}].
Gilbbery (a.) Slippery; changeable.
Gilbbery (a.) Moving easily; nimble; voluble.
Glibly (adv.) In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.
Glibness (n.) The quality of being glib.
Glicke (n.) An ogling look.
Glidden () p. p. of Glide.
Glidder (a.) Alt. of Gliddery
Gliddery (a.) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.
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}.]
Glide (n.) (Zool.) The glede or kite.
Glided (imp. & p. p.) of Glide
Gliding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glide
Glide (v. i.) 滑動，滑行 [Q]；滑翔；乘滑翔機飛行；（時間等）悄悄地消逝 [（+by/ on）] To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.
The river glideth at his own sweet will. -- Wordsworth.
Glide (v. i.) (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
Glide (v. i.) (A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.
Glide (n.) The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line. -- Thomson.
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away. -- Shak.
Glide (n.) (Phon.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 18, 97, 191).
Note: The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 17, 95.
Glide (n.) (A["e]ronautics) Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.
Glide (n.) A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant [syn: {semivowel}, {glide}].
Glide (n.) The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" [syn: {slide}, {glide}, {coast}].
Glide (n.) The activity of flying a glider [syn: {glide}, {gliding}, {sailplaning}, {soaring}, {sailing}].
Glide (v.) Move smoothly and effortlessly.
Glide (v.) Fly in or as if in a glider plane.
Glide (v.) (v. t.) 使滑動，使滑行 Cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly.
Gliden () p. p. of Glide.
Glider (n.) One who, or that which, glides.
Glidingly (adv.) In a gliding manner.
Gliff (n.) A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.
Gliff (n.) A moment: as, for a gliff.
Glike (n.) A sneer; a flout.
Glim (n.) Brightness; splendor.
Glim (n.) A light or candle.
Glimmered (imp. & p. p.) of Glimmer.
Glimmering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glimmer.
Glimmer (v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
Glimmer (n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
Glimmer (n.) Mica. See Mica.
Glimmering (n.) Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer.
Glimmering (n.) A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
Glimpse (n.) [C] 瞥見；一瞥；模糊的感覺；微露；少許 [（+of）] A sudden flash; transient luster.
LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. -- Milton.
Glimpse (n.) A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen. -- S. Rogers.
Glimpse (n.) A faint idea; an inkling.
Glimpsed (imp. & p. p.) of Glimpse.
Glimpsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glimpse.
Glimpse (v. i.) 看一眼，瞥見 [（+at）] To appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.
Glimpse (v. t.) 瞥見 To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
Some glimpsing and no perfect sight. -- Chaucer.
Glimpse (n.) A quick look [syn: glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil].
Glimpse (n.) A brief or incomplete view; "from the window he could catch a glimpse of the lake".
Glimpse (n.) A vague indication; "he caught only a glimpse of the professor's meaning".
Glimpse (v.) Catch a glimpse of or see briefly; "We glimpsed the Queen as she got into her limousine".
Glint (n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
Glinted (imp. & p. p.) of Glint.
Glinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glint.
Glint (v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
Glint (v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.
Glioma (n.) A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
Glires (n. pl.) An order of mammals; the Rodentia.
Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.
Glissando (n. & a.) A gliding effect; gliding.
Glissette (n.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
Glist (n.) Glimmer; mica.
Glistened (imp. & p. p.) of Glisten.
Glistening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glisten.
Glisten (v. i.) To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.
Glisten (v.) [ I ] （因潮濕、油亮或光滑的表面反光而）閃光，閃耀，閃亮 To shine by reflecting light from a wet or smooth surface.
// The grass glistened in the early-morning dew.
// His eyes glistened with tears.
Glistered (imp. & p. p.) of Glister.
Glistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glister.
Glister (v. i.) To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
Glister (n.) Glitter; luster.
Glisteringly (adv.) In a glistering manner.
Glitch (n.) （設備、機器等的）小故障，失靈，技術性的小毛病；【電】短暫的電磁波干擾，短時脈衝波干擾；【天】脈衝星的自轉突變 A fault or defect in a system, plan, or machine.
Syn: bug.
Glitch (n.) (Elect.) A brief surge or interruption in the voltage in an electrical circuit or device.
Glitch (n.) A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine [syn: bug, glitch].
Glitch () [Very common; from German ?glitschig? slippery, via Yiddish ?glitshen?, to slide or skid].
Glitch (n.) A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a power glitch (also power hit), of grave concern because it usually crashes all the computers. In jargon, though, a hacker who got to the middle of a sentence and then forgot how he or she intended to complete it might say, ?Sorry, I just glitched?.
Glitch (v. i.) To commit a glitch. See gritch.
Glitch (v. t.) [Stanford] To scroll a display screen, esp. several lines at a time. WAITS terminals used to do this in order to avoid continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye.
Glitch () (Obs.) Same as magic cookie, sense 2.
All these uses of glitch derive from the specific technical meaning the term has in the electronic hardware world, where it is now techspeak. A glitch can occur when the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs change to some random value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value. If another circuit inspects the output at just the wrong time, reading the random value, the results can be very wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch is one of many causes of electronic heisenbugs).
[73-06-04]
Coping with a hydraulic {glitch}.
Glitch () [German "glitschen" to slip, via Yiddish "glitshen", to slide or skid].
Glitch () (Electronics) When the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs change to some random value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value. If another circuit inspects the output at just the wrong time, reading the random value, the results can be very wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch is one of many causes of electronic heisenbugs).
Glitch () A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a "power glitch" (or power hit), of grave concern because it usually crashes all the computers. See also gritch.
Glitch () [Stanford] To scroll a display screen, especially several lines at a time. WAITS terminals used to do this in order to avoid continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye.
Glitch () Obsolete. Same as magic cookie.
[{Jargon File]
Glittered (imp. & p. p.) of Glitter.
Glittering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glitter.
Glitter (v. i.) To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
Glitter (v. i.) To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
Glitter (n.) A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
Glitterand (a.) Glittering.
Glitteringly (adv.) In a glittering manner.
Gloam (v. i.) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
Gloam (v. i.) To be sullen or morose.
Gloam (n.) The twilight; gloaming.
Gloaming (n.) 【詩】黃昏；薄暮 Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] -- Hogg.
Gloaming (n.) Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] -- J. Still.
Gloaming (n.) The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle].
Gloar (v. i.) To squint; to stare.
Gloated (imp. & p. p.) of Gloat.
Gloating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gloat.
Gloat (v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
Globalization (n.) [ U ] (UK usually Globalisation) (C1) （尤指由於大公司在很多不同國家的生產和銷售活動而導致的貿易）全球化 The increase of trade around the world, especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries.
// We must take advantage of the increased globalization of the commodity trading business.
Globalization (n.) [ U ] (UK usually Globalisation) （商品、服務或社會及文化影響在世界範圍的）傳播，流傳，趨同化 A situation in which available goods and services, or social and cultural influences, gradually become similar in all parts of the world.
// The globalization of fashion/ American youth culture.
Globard (n.) A glowworm.
Globate (a.) Alt. of Globated
Globated (a.) Having the form of a globe; spherical.
Globe (n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
Globe (n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
Globe (n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.
Globe (n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.
Globe (n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.
Globed (imp. & p. p.) of Globe.
Globing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Globe.
Globe (v. t.) To gather or form into a globe.
Globefish (n.) (Zool.) 【魚】河豚 A plectognath fish of the genera {Diodon}, {Tetrodon}, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also {porcupine fish}, and {sea hedgehog}. See {Diodon}.
Puffer (n.) 噴氣的人（或東西） One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. -- Bouvier.
Puffer (n.) (Zool.) 河豚 Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of {Tetrodon} and {Diodon} of the family {Tetraodontidae}; -- called also {blower}, {puff-fish}, {swellfish}, and {globefish}. They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin, {tetrodotoxin}. Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands.
Puffer (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
Puffer (n.) (Dyeing) A kier.
Globefish (n.) Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers [syn: {puffer}, {pufferfish}, {blowfish}, {globefish}].
Globeflower (n.) 【植】金梅草屬植物 A plant of the genus {Trollius} ({T. Europaeus}), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.
Globeflower (n.) The American plant {Trollius laxus}.
{Japan globeflower}. See {Corchorus}.
Globeflower (n.) Any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers [syn: {globeflower}, {globe flower}].