Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G

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Gluey (a.) Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

Gluey (a.) Having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous].

Glueyness (n.) Viscidity.

Glueyness (n.) The property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness].

Gluish (a.) Somewhat gluey. -- Sherwood.

Glum (n.) Sullenness. [Obs.] -- Skelton.

Glum (a.) Moody; silent; sullen.

I frighten people by my glun face. -- Thackeray.

Glum (v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] -- Hawes.

Glum ( a.) Moody and melancholic.

Glum ( a.) Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius" -- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen].

Glumaceous (a.) Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

Glumal (a.) (Bot.) Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.

Glume (n.) (Bot.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. -- Gray. Glumella

Glume (n.) Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae.

Glumella (n.) Alt. of Glumelle.

Glumelle (n.) (Bot.) One of the palets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Glumly (adv.) In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

Glumly (adv.) In a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly" [syn: dourly, sullenly, glumly].

Glummy (a.) dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

Glumness (n.) Moodiness; sullenness.

Glumness (n.) An atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" [syn: gloom, gloominess, glumness].

Glumness (n.) A gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness].

Glump (v. i.) To manifest sullenness; to sulk. [Colloq.]

Glumpy (a.) Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." -- T. Hook.

Glunch (a.) Frowning; sulky; sullen.

Glunch (n.) A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Glutted (imp. & p. p.) of Glut.

Glutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glut.

Glut (v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. -- Shak.

Glut (v. t.) To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. -- Dryden.

The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. -- C. Kingsley.

To glut the market, To furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

Glut (v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. -- Tennyson.

Glut (n.) That which is swallowed. -- Milton

Glut (n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. -- Macaulay.

Glut (n.) Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]

Glut (n.) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. -- Raymond.

Glut (n.) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. -- Knight.

Glut (n.) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.

Glut (n.) A block used for a fulcrum.

Glut (n.) (Zool.) The broad-nosed eel ({Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Glut (n.) The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit].

Glut (v.) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out].

Glut (v.) Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut].

Glutaconic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids. gluteus

Glutaeus (n.) (Anat.) Any of several muscles in the buttocks of man and most mammals, especially the great muscle of the buttock (the gluteus maximus); also, the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

Note: In man, the gluteus is composed of three distinct parts, which extend and abduct the thigh, and help support the body in standing.

Glutamic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to gluten.

Glutamic acid, A nitrogenous organic acid obtained from certain albuminoids, as gluten; -- called also amido-glutaric acid.

Glutaric (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.

Glutaric acid, An organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.

Glutazine (n.) (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine.

Gluteal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutaeus.

Gluteal (a.) Of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles.

Gluten (n.) (Chem.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

Note: Gluten is a complex and variable mixture of glutin or gliadin, vegetable fibrin, vegetable casein, oily material, etc., and is a very nutritious element of food. It may be separated from the flour of grain by subjecting this to a current of water, the starch and other soluble matters being thus washed out.

Gluten bread, Bread containing a large proportion of gluten; -- used in cases of diabetes.

Gluten casein (Chem.), A vegetable proteid found in the seeds of grasses, and extracted as a dark, amorphous, earthy mass.

Gluten fibrin (Chem.), A vegetable proteid found in the cereal grains, and extracted as an amorphous, brownish yellow substance.

Gluten (n.) A protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough.

Gluteus, Glutaeus, (n.) [NL. See Gluteal.] (Anat.) Any of several muscles in the buttocks of man and most mammals, especially the great muscle of the buttock (the gluteus maximus); also, the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

Note: In man, the gluteus is composed of three distinct parts, which extend and abduct the thigh, and help support the body in standing.

Gluteus (n.) [NL.] (Anat.) Same as Glut[ae]us.

Gluteus (n.) Any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh [syn: gluteus, gluteus muscle, gluteal muscle, glute].

Glutin (n.) (Chem.) Same as Gliadin.

Glutin (n.) (Chem.) Sometimes synonymous with Gelatin. [R.]

Glutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Glutinate.

Glutinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glutinate.

Glutinate (v. t.) To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together. -- Bailey.

Glutination (n.) The act of uniting with glue; sticking together.

Glutinative (a.) Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.

Glutinosity (n.) The quality of being glutinous; viscousness. [R.]

Glutinosity (n.) The property of having a viscosity like jelly [syn: gelatinousness, glutinosity, glutinousness].

Glutinous (a.) Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.

Glutinous (a.) (Bot.) Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland.

Glutinous (a.) Having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous].

Glutinousness (n.) The quality of being glutinous.

Glutinousness (n.) The property of having a viscosity like jelly [syn: gelatinousness, glutinosity, glutinousness].

Glutton (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.

Glutton (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. -- Granville.

Glutton (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Glutton bird (Zool.), The giant fulmar ({Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.

Wolverene, Wolverine, (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Wolverene, Wolverine, (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.]

Glutton (n.) A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman].

Glutton (n.) Musteline mammal of northern Eurasia [syn: glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine].

Glutton, () (Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel, from a word meaning "to shake out," "to squander;" and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version, "gluttonous." Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.

Glutton, (n.) A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Glutton (a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." -- Dryden.

A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. -- Fuller.

Glutton (v. t. & i.) To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.]

Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine. -- Lovelace.

Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. -- Drayton.

Glutton (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.

Glutton (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. -- Granville.

Glutton (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Glutton bird (Zool.), The giant fulmar ({Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.

Wolverene, Wolverine (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Wolverene, Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.]

Glutton (n.) A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman].

Glutton (n.) Musteline mammal of northern Eurasia [syn: glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine].

Glutton (n.) A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Gluttonish (a.) Gluttonous; greedy. -- Sir P. Sidney.

Gluttonized (imp. & p. p.) of Gluttonize.

Gluttonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gluttonize.

Gluttonize (v. i.) To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. -- Hallywell.

Gluttonize (v.) Eat a lot and without restraint [syn: gluttonize, gluttonise, fress].

Gluttonous (a.) 暴食的，貪吃的，饕餮的 Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

Gluttonous (a.) Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" [ant: {abstemious}].

Gluttonously (adv.) 貪婪地 In a gluttonous manner; "this man eats gluttonously!"

Gluttonies (n. pl. ) of Gluttony.

Gluttony (n.) 暴食，貪食 Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.

Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. -- Milton.

Gluttony (n.) Habitual eating to excess.

Gluttony (n.) Eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {gluttony}, {overeating}, {gula}].

Glycerate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of glyceric acid.

Glyceric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin.

Glyceric acid (Chem.), An organic acid, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycerin, as a thick liquid. It is a hydroxyl derivative of propionic acid, and has both acid and alcoholic properties.

Glyceride (n.) (Chem.) A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially. Glycerin

Glyceride (n.) An ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and very little free acid" [syn: glyceride, acylglycerol].

Glycerin (n.) Alt. of Glycerine.

Glycerine (n.) (Chem.) An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

Note: It is obtained from fats by saponification, or, on a large scale, by the action of superheated steam. It is used as an ointment, as a solvent and vehicle for medicines, and as an adulterant in wine, beer, etc.

Glycerine (n.) A sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils [syn: glycerol,

glycerin, glycerine].

Glycerite (n.) (Med.) A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.

Glycerite (n.) A medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin [syn: glycerite, glycerole].

Glycerin, Glycerine (n.) (Chem.) An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It may be obtained by saponification of fats and oils. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

Glycerol (n.) (Chem.) Same as Glycerin.

Glycerol (n.) A sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils [syn: glycerol, glycerin, glycerine].

Clycerole (n.) (Med.) Same as Glycerite.

Glyceryl (n.) (Chem.) A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

Glyceryl (n.) A trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals.

Glycide (n.) (Chem.) A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

Glycidic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.

Glycin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Glycocoll.

Glycocoll (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.

Glycocholate (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A salt of glycocholic acid; as, sodium glycocholate.

Glycocholic (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid.

Glycocholic acid (Physiol. Chem.), A conjugate acid, composed of glycocoll and cholic acid, present in bile in the form of a sodium salt. The acid commonly forms a resinous mass, but can be crystallized in long, white needles.

Glycocin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Glycocoll.

Glycogen (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.

Glycogen (n.) One form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body [syn: glycogen, animal starch].

Glycogenic (a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver. Glycogeny

Glycogenic (a.) Of or relating to or involving glycogen

Glycogeny (n.) Alt. of Glycogenesis.

Glycogenesis (n.) (Physiol.) The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.

Glycol (n.) (Chem.) A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

Glycol (n.) A sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent [syn: ethylene glycol, glycol, ethanediol].

Glycol (n.) Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule [syn: diol, glycol, dihydric alcohol].

Glycol (n.) Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.

Glycolic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.

Glycolic acid (Chem.), An organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape ({Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, -- whence its name. It is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance, HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an alcohol and an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids; -- called also hydroxyacetic acid.

Glycolide (n.) (Chem.) A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [Written also glycollide.]

Glycoluric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.

Glycoluril (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoin.

Glycolyl (n.) (Chem.) A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

Glyconian (a. & n.) Glyconic.

Glyconic (a.) (Pros.) Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry.

Glyconic (n.) (Pros.) A glyconic verse.

Glyconin (n.) An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

Glycosine (n.) (Chem.) An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.

Glycosuria (n.) (Med.) Same as Glucosuria.

Glycosuria (n.) The presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine.

Glycyrrhiza (n.) (Bot.) A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste.

Glycyrrhiza (n.) (Med.) The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc.

Glycyrrhiza (n.) Sticky perennial Eurasian herbs [syn: Glycyrrhiza, genus Glycyrrhiza].

Glycyrrhizimic (a.) (Chem.) From, or pertaining to, glycyrrhizin; as, glycyrrhizimic acid.

Glycyrrhizin (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside found in licorice root ({Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark ({Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste. Glyn

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