Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 27
Gloss (v. t.) 使光彩，掩蓋，上光於，註釋，曲解 To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
Gloss (v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
You have the art to gloss the foulest cause. -- Philips.
Gloss (v. i.) 作註釋 To make comments; to comment; to explain. -- Dryden.
Gloss (v. i.) 虛飾 To make sly remarks, or insinuations. -- Prior.
Gloss (n.) An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text [syn: gloss, rubric].
Gloss (n.) An alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field [syn: glossary, gloss].
Gloss (n.) The property of being smooth and shiny [syn: polish, gloss, glossiness, burnish].
Gloss (n.) An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color" [syn: semblance, gloss, color, colour].
Gloss (v.) Give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing.
Gloss (v.) Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: gloss, comment, annotate].
Gloss (v.) Provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase.
Gloss (v.) Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie" [syn: color, colour, gloss].
Gloss. () Interpretation, comment, explanation, or remark, intended to illustrate the text of an author.
Glossas (n. pl. ) of Glossa.
Glossa (n.) (Zool.) 舌；中唇舌 The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
Glossa (n.) A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper].
Glossal (a.) 舌的 Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
Glossanthrax (n.) 舌癰 A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Glossarial (a.) 詞匯的，字辭注解的 Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
Glossarially (adv.) In the manner of a glossary.
Glossarist (n.) A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. -- Tyrwhitt.
Glossarist (n.) A scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries.
Gossaries (n. pl. ) of Glossary.
Glossary (n.) 圖文集，詞匯，術語字典，辭典，詞匯表 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.
Glossary (n.) An alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field [syn: glossary, gloss].
Glossata (n. pl.) (Zool.) The Lepidoptera.
Glossator (n.) A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." -- Milman.
Glosser (n.) A polisher; one who gives a luster.
Glosser (n.) A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator. -- L. Addison.
Glossic (n.) A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only.
Ingglish Glosik konvai[middot]z hwotev[middot]er proanusiai[middot]shon iz inten[middot]ded bei dhi reiter. -- A. J. Ellis.
Glossily (adv.) In a glossy manner.
Glossily (adv.) In a glossy manner; "the magazine was glossily printed."
Glossiness (n.) The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. -- Boyle.
Glossiness (n.) The property of being smooth and shiny [syn: polish, gloss, glossiness, burnish].
Glossist (n.) A writer of comments. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Glossitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the tongue.
Glossitis (n.) Inflammation of the tongue.
Glossly (adv.) Like gloss; specious. -- Cowley.
Glossocomon (n.) A kind of hoisting winch.
Glossoepiglottic (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.
Glossographer (n.) A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. -- Hayward.
Glossographical (a.) Of or pertaining to glossography.
Glossography (n.) The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.
Glossohyal (a.) (Anat.) 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. Glossolalia
Glossolalia (n.) Alt. of Glossolaly.
Glossolaly (n.) The gift of tongues. Farrar.
Glossological (a.) Of or pertaining to glossology.
Glossologist (n.) One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
Glossology (n.) The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.
Glossology (n.) The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
Glossopharyngeal (a.) (Anat.) 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. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.
Glossy (a.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
Glossy (a.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.
Glossy (a.) (Of paper and fabric and leather) Having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers; "calendered paper"; "glossy paper" [syn: glossy, calendered].
Glossy (a.) Reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining].
Glossy (a.) Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series" [syn: glossy, showy].
Glossy (n.) A magazine printed on good quality paper [syn: slick, slick magazine, glossy].
Glossy (n.) A photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper.
Glost oven () An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.
Glottal (a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic.
Glottal catch, An effect produced upon the breath or voice by a sudden opening or closing of the glotts. -- Sweet. Glottic
Glottic (a.) Alt. of Glottidean.
Glottidean (a.) Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.
Glottis (n.) (Anat.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.
Glottological (a.) Of or pertaining to glottology.
Glottologist (n.) A linguist; a philologist.
Glottology (n.) The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
Glout (v. i.) To pout; to look sullen. [Obs.] -- Garth.
Glout (v. t.) To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at. [Obs.] -- Wright.
Glove (n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
Glove (n.) A boxing glove.
Boxing glove. See under Boxing.
Glove fight, A pugilistic contest in which the fighters wear boxing gloves.
Glove money or Glove silver. (a) A tip or gratuity to servants, professedly to buy gloves with.
Glove money or Glove silver. (b) (Eng. Law.) A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the sheriff of a county to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed.
Glove sponge (Zool.), A fine and soft variety of commercial sponges ({Spongia officinalis).
To be hand and glove with, To be intimately associated or on good terms with. "Hand and glove with traitors." -- J. H. Newman.
To handle without gloves, To treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with. [Colloq.]
To take up the glove, To accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.
To throw down the glove, To challenge to combat.
Gloved (imp. & p. p.) of Glove.
Gloving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glove.
Glove (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.
Glover (n.) One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.
Glover's suture or Glover's stitch, A kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.
Glowed (imp. & p. p.) of Glow.
Glowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glow.
Glow (v. i.) 發白熱光，灼熱；發光，發熱；（因運動或激動等而）發熱，發紅；容光煥發 [（+with）]；（感情等）洋溢；（怒火等）燃燒 [（+with）]；色彩紛呈；鮮豔奪目 To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
Glows in the stars, And blossoms in the trees. -- Pope.
Glow (v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. -- Dryden.
And glow with shame of your proceedings. -- Shak.
Glow (v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats? -- Addison.
The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. -- Gay.
Glow (v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
With
pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. -- Dryden.
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. -- Pope.
Glow (v. t.) 燃燒；閃耀To make hot; to flush. [Poetic]
Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. -- Shak.
Glow (n.) [the S] 白熱光；灼熱；色彩鮮豔；光輝；臉紅；（身體）發熱 [（+of）]；激情；熱烈，興高采烈[（+of）] White or red heat; incandscence.
Glow (n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
Glow (n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
The red glow of scorn. -- Shak.
Glow (n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
Glowbard (n.) The glowworm. [Obs.]
Glowered (imp. & p. p.) of Glower.
Glowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glower.
Glower (v. i.) To look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. --Thackeray.
Glower (n.) An angry stare [syn: glare, glower].
Glower (v.) Look at with a fixed gaze; "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her" [syn: glower, glare].
Glower (v.) Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval [syn: frown, glower, lour, lower].
Glowingly (adv.) In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.
Glowingly (adv.) In an enthusiastically glowing manner; "in her letter she praised him glowingly."
Glowlamp (n.) (Chem.) An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
Glowlamp (n.) (Elect.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a.
Compare: Incandescent
Incandescent (a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.
Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. -- I. Taylor.
Incandescent lamp, Incandescent light, Incandescent light bulb (Elec.), A kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of conducting material, now usually tungsten, but originally carbon, contained in a vacuum or an atmosphere of inert gas within a glass bulb, and heated to incandescence by an electric current. It was inventerd by Thomas Edison, and was once called the Edison lamp; -- called also incandescence lamp, and glowlamp. This is one of the two most common sources of electric light, the other being the fluorescent light, fluorescent lamp or fluorescent bulb.
Glowworm (n.) (Zool.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.
Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. -- Shak.
Note: The male is winged, and is supposed to be attracted by the light of the female. In America, the luminous larv[ae] of several species of fireflies and fire beetles are called glowworms. Both sexes of these are winged when mature. See Firefly.
Glowworm (n.) The luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly.
Gloxinia (n.) [NL.] (Bot.) American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.
Gloxinia (n.) Any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers.
Glozed (imp. & p. p.) of Gloze.
Glozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gloze.
Gloze (v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. -- Chaucer.
A false, glozing parasite. -- South.
So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. -- Milton.
Gloze (v. i.) To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. -- Shak.
Gloze (v. t.) To smooth over; to palliate.
By glozing the evil that is in the world. -- I. Taylor.
Gloze (n.) Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. -- Shak.
Gloze (n.) Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Glozer
(n.) A
flatterer. [Obs.] -- Gifford (1580).
Glucic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from,
sugar; as, glucic acid.
Glucina (n.) (Chem.) A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine.
Glucinic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.
Glucinum (n.) (Chem.) 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. [Formerly written also glucinium.]
Glucogen (n.) [R.] See Glycogen.
Glucogenesis (n.) Glycogenesis. [R.]
Gluconic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose.
Gluconic acid (Chem.), An organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also maltonic acid, and dextronic acid.
Compare: Maltonic
Maltonic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.
Glucose (n.) A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
Glucose (n.) (Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
Glucose (n.) The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.
Compare: Dextrose
Dextrose (n.) [See Dexter.] (Chem.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits, and also called glucose. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence the mixture is called called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.
Note: The solid products are known to the trade as grape sugar; the sirupy products as glucose, or mixing sirup. These are harmless, but are only about half as sweet as cane sugar or sucrose. Dextrously; Dextrous
Glucose (n.) A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy.
Glucoside (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Glucoside (n.) A glycoside derived from glucose.
Glucosuria (n.) (Med.) A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus.
Glucosuria (n.) The presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine.
Glue (n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
Bee glue. See under Bee.
Fish glue, A strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass.
Glue plant (Bot.), A fucoid seaweed ({Gloiopeltis tenax"> Glue plant (Bot.), a fucoid seaweed ({Gloiopeltis tenax).
Liquid glue, A fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid or alcohol.
Marine glue, A solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.
Glued (imp. & p. p.) of Glue.
Gluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glue.
Glue (v. t.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
This cold, congealed blood That glues my lips, and will not let me speak. -- Shak.
Glue (n.) Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage].
Glue (v.) Join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign on the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" [syn: glue, paste].
Glue (v.) Be fixed as if by glue; "His eyes were glued on her."
Glue (n.) Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks. For example, Blue Glue is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks glue logic.
Glue, () A generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks. For example, Blue Glue is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks "glue logic". [{Jargon File] (1999-02-22)
Gluepot (n.) 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.
Gluer (n.) One who cements with glue.