Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 24

Glassy (a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.

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.

Glasstonbury thorn () A variety of the common hawthorn.

Glasynge (n.) Glazing or glass.

Glauberite (n.) 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."

Glaucescent (a.) Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.

Glaucic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.

Glaucine (a.) Glaucous or glaucescent.

Glaucine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

Glaucodot (n.) A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

Glaucoma (n.) 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.

Glaucomatous (a.) Having the nature of glaucoma.

Glaucometer (n.) See Gleucometer.

Glauconite (n.) The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

Glaucophane (n.) A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

Glaucosis (n.) Same as Glaucoma.

Glaucous (a.) Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

Glaucous (a.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.

Glaucus (n.) 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.

Glave (n.) See Glaive.

Glaver (v. i.) To prate; to jabber; to babble.

Glaver (v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle.

Glaverer (n.) A flatterer.

Glaymore (n.) A claymore.

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.

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.

Glee (n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.

Glee (n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Gleed (v. i.) A live or glowing coal; a glede.

Gleeful (a.) Merry; gay; joyous.

Gleek (n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.

Gleek (n.) An enticing look or glance.

Gleek (v. i.) To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

Gleek (n.) A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.

Gleek (n.) Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything.

Gleemen (pl. ) of Gleeman

Gleeman (n.) A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

Gleen (v. i.) To glisten; to gleam.

Gleesome (a.) Merry; joyous; gleeful.

Gleet (n.) 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.

Gleet (v. i.) To flow slowly, as water.

Gleety (a.) Ichorous; thin; limpid.

Gleg (a.) Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

Gleire (n.) Alt. of Gleyre

Gleyre (n.) See Glair.

Glen (n.) A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

Glenlivat (n.) Alt. of Glenlivet

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