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Giggle
GIG'GLE, noun A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath.
GIG'GLE, verb intransitive To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a silly, puerile manner; to titter; to grin with childish levity or mirth.
Giggler
GIG'GLER, noun One that giggles or titters.
Giglet
GIG'LET
GIG'LOT, noun A wanton; a lascivious girl.
GIG'LOT, adjective Giddy; light; inconstant; wanton.
Giglot
GIG'LOT, n. A wanton; a lascivious girl.
GIG'LOT, a. Giddy; light; inconstant; wanton.
Gigot
GIG'OT, noun The hip-joint; also, a slice. [Not English.]
Gilbertine
GIL'BERTINE, noun One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England.
GIL'BERTINE, adjective Belonging to the monastic order, mentioned above.
Gild
GILD, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive gilded or gilt.
1. To overlay with gold, either in leaf or powder, or in amalgam with quicksilver; to overspread with a thin covering of gold; as the gilt frame of a mirror.
Her joy in gilded chariots when alive,
And love of ombre after death survive.
2. To cover with any yellow matter.
3. To adorn with luster; to render bright.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.
4. To illuminate; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
GILD the calm evening of your day.
5. To give a fair and agreeable external appearance; to recommend to favor and reception by superficial decoration; as, to gild flattery or falsehood.
Gilded
GILD'ED, participle passive Overlaid with gold leaf or liquid; illuminated.
Gilder
GILD'ER, noun One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.
1. A Dutch coin of the value of 20 stivers, about 38 cents, or one shilling and ninepence sterling. It is usually written guilder.
Gilding
GILD'ING, participle present tense Overlaying with gold; giving a fair external appearance.
GILD'ING, noun The art or practice of overlaying things with gold leaf or liquid.
1. That which is laid on in overlaying with gold.
Gill
GILL, noun
1. The organ of respiration in fishes, consisting of a cartilaginous or bony arch, attached to the bones of the head, and furnished on the exterior convex side with a multitude of fleshy leaves, or fringed vascular fibrils, resembling plumes, and of a red color in a healthy state. The water is admitted by the gill-opening, and acts upon the blood as it circulates in the fibrils. Other animals also breathe by gills, as frogs in their tadpole state, lobsters, etc.
Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.
2. The flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl.
3. The flesh under the chin.
4. In England, a pair of wheels and a frame on which timber is conveyed. [Local.]
Gill-Flap
GILL-FLAP, noun A membrane attached to the posterior edge of the gill-lid, immediately closing the gill-opening.
Gill-Lid
GILL-LID, noun The covering of the gills.
Gill-Opening
GILL-OPENING, noun The aperture of a fish or other animal, by which water is admitted to the gills.
GILL, noun [Low Latin gilla, gillo or gello, a drinking glass, a gill. This word has the same elementary letters as Gr. a pail or bucket, and Eng. gallon, probably from one of the roots in Gl, which signify to hold or contain.]
1. A measure of capacity, containing the fourth part of a pint. It is said to be in some places in England, half a pint.
2. A measure among miners, equal to a pint.
GILL, noun A plant, ground-ivy, of the genus Gleehoma.
1. Malt liquor medicated with ground-ivy.
GILL, noun
1. In ludicrous language, a female; a wanton girl.
Each Jack with his Gill.
2. A fissure in a hill; also, a place between steep banks and a rivulet flowing through it; a brook.
Gillhouse
GILLHOUSE, noun A place where gill is sold.
Gillian
GIL'LIAN, noun A wanton girl.
Gillyflower
GIL'LYFLOWER, noun [supposed to be a corruption of July-flower.]
The name of certain plants. The clove gilly-flower is of the genus Dianthus, or carnation pink; the stock gillyflower is the Cheiranthus; the queen's gillyflower is the Hesperis.
Gilse
GILSE, noun A young salmon.
Gilt
GILT, participle passive of gild. Overlaid with gold leaf, or washed with gold; illuminated; adorned.
GILT, noun Gold laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
1. In England, a young female pig.
Gilthead
GILT'HEAD, noun [gilt and head.] In ichthyology, a fish or a genus of fishes, the Sparus, of many species; so named from their color, or from a golden spot between the eyes.
1. A bird.
Gilttail
GILTTAIL, noun A worm so called from its yellow tail.
Gim
GIM, adjective [contracted from gemmy.] Neat; spruce; well dressed.
Gimbal
GIM'BAL, noun A brass ring by which a sea compass is suspended in its box, by means of which the card is kept in a horizontal position, notwithstanding the rolling of the ship.
Gimblet
GIMB'LET, noun A borer; small instrument with a pointed screw at the end, for boring holes in wood by turning. It is applied only to small instruments; a large instrument of the like kind is called an auger.
GIMB'LET, verb transitive In seamen's language, to turn round an anchor by the stock; a motion resembling that of the turning of a gimblet
Gimcrack
GIM'CRACK, noun A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Gimmal
GIM'MAL, noun Some device or machinery.
GIM'MAL, adjective Consisting of links.
Gimmer
GIM'MER, noun Movement or machinery.
Gimp
GIMP, noun [ Eng. to whip.] A kind of silk twist or edging.
GIMP, adjective Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Not in use.]
Gin
GIN, noun A contraction of Geneva, a distilled spirit. [See Geneva.]
GIN, noun [A contraction of engine.] A machine or instrument by which the mechanical powers are employed in aid of human strength. The word is applied to various engines, as a machine for driving piles, another for raising weights, etc., and a machine for separating the seeds from cotton, invented by E.Whitney, is called a cotton-gin. It is also the name given to an engine of torture, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
1. A trap; a snare.
GIN, verb transitive To clear cotton of its seeds by a machine which separates them with expedition.
1. To catch in a trap.
GIN, verb intransitive To begin.
Ginger
GIN'GER, noun [Latin zinziber.] A plant, or the root of a species of Amomum, a native of the East and West Indies. The roots are jointed, and the stalks rise two or three feet, with narrow leaves. The flower stems arise by the side of these, immediately from the root, naked and ending in an oblong scaly spike. The dried roots are used for various purposes, in the kitchen and in medicine.
Gingerbreaad
GIN'GERBREAAD, noun [ginger and bread.] A kind or cake, composed of flour with an admixture of butter, pearlash and ginger, sweetened.
Gingerly
GIN'GERLY, adverb Nicely; cautiously. [Not used.]
Gingerness
GIN'GERNESS, noun Niceness; tenderness. [Not used.]
Gingham
GING'HAM, noun A kind or striped cotton cloth.
Ginging
GIN'GING, noun In mining, the lining of a mine-shaft with stones or bricks for its support, called steining or staining, which I suppose is from Sax. stan, stone.
Gingival
GIN'GIVAL, adjective [Latin gingiva, the gum.] Pertaining to the gums.
Gingle
GIN'GLE
GIN'GLYMOID, adjective [Gr. a hinge, and form.] Pertaining to or resembling a ginglymus.
Ginglymoid
GIN'GLYMOID, a. [Gr. a hinge, and form.] Pertaining to or resembling a ginglymus.
Ginglymus
GIN'GLYMUS, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, a species of articulation resembling a hinge. That species of articulation in which each bone partly receives and is partly received by the other, so as to admit only of flexion and extension, is called angular ginglymus
Ginnet
GIN'NET, noun A nag. [See Jennet.]
Ginseng
GIN'SENG, noun [This word is probably Chinese, and it is said by Grosier, to signify the resemblance of a man, or man's thigh. He observes also that the root in the language of the Iroquois is called garentoquen, which signifies legs and thighs separated.]
A plant, of the genus Panax, the root of which is in great demand among the Chinese. It is found in the Northern parts of Asia and America, and is an article of export from America to China. It has a jointed, fleshy, taper root, as large as a man's finger, which when dry is of a yellowish white color, with a mucilaginous sweetness in the taste, somewhat resembling that of liquorice, accompanied with a slight bitterness.
Gip
GIP, verb transitive To take out the entrails of herrings.
Gipsey
GIP'SEY, noun The Gipseys are a race of vagabonds which infest Europe, Africa and Asia, strolling about and subsisting mostly by theft, robbery and fortune-telling. The name is supposed to be corrupted from Egyptian, as they were thought to have come from Egypt. But their language indicates that they originated in Hindoostan.
1. A reproachful name for a dark complexion.
2. A name of slight reproach to a woman; sometimes implying artifice or cunning.
A slave I am to Clara's eyes:
The gipsey knows her power and flies.
GIP'SEY, noun The language of the gipseys.
Gipseyism
GIP'SEYISM, noun The arts and practices of gipseys; deception; cheating; flattery.
1. The state of a gipsey.
Giraff
GIRAFF', noun The camelopard, a quadruped. [See Camelopard.]
Girandole
GIR'ANDOLE, noun A chandelier; a large kind of branched candlestick.
Girasol
GIR'ASOL, noun [Latin gyrus, a turn; Latin sol, the sun.]
1. The turnsole, a plant of the genus Heliotropium.
2. A mineral usually milk white, bluish white or sky blue, but when turned towards the sun or any bright light, it constantly reflects a reddish color; hence its name. It sometimes resembles a translucid jelly.
Gird
GIRD, noun gurd. [Eng. a yard.]
1. A twitch or pang; a sudden spasm, which resembles the stroke of a rod or the pressure of a band.
2. In popular language, a severe stroke of a stick or whip.
GIRD, verb transitive gurd. preterit tense and participle passive girded or girt.
1. To bind by surrounding with any flexible substance, as with a twig, a cord, bandage or cloth; as, to gird the loins with sackcloth.
2. To make fast by binding; to put on; usually with on; as, to gird on a harness; to gird on a sword.
3. To invest; to surround.
The Son appeared,
Girt with omnipotence.
4. To clothe; to dress; to habit.
I girded thee about with fine linen. .
5. To furnish; to equip.
GIRDed with snaky wiles.
6. To surround; to encircle; to inclose; to encompass.
The Nyseian isle,
Girt with the river Triton.
7. To gibe; to reproach severly; to lash.
GIRD, verb intransitive To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
Girded
GIRD'ED, participle passive Bound; surrounded; invested; put on.
Girder
GIRD'ER, noun In architecture, the principal piece of timber in a floor. Its end is usually fastened into the summers or breast summers, and the joists are framed in it at one end. In buildings entirely of timber, the girder is fastened by tenons into the posts.
1. A satirist.
Girding
GIRD'ING, participle present tense Binding; surrounding; investing.
GIRD'ING, noun A covering. .
Girdle
GIRD'LE, noun
1. A band or belt; something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled; as a girdle of fine lines; a leathern girdle
2. Inclosure; circumference.
3. The zodiac.
4. A round iron plate for baking.
5. Among jewelers, the line which encompasses the stone, parallel to the horizon.
GIRD'LE, verb transitive To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
1. To inclose; to enrivon; to shut in.
2. In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kill it.
Girdle-Belt
GIRD'LE-BELT, noun A belt that encircles the waist.
Girdle-Stead
GIRD'LE-STEAD, noun The part of the body where the girdle is worn.
Girdler
GIRD'LER, noun One who girdles; a maker of girdles.
Gire
GIRE, noun [Latin gyrus.] A circle, or circular motion. [See Gyre.]
Girl
GIRL, noun gerl. [Low Latin gerula, a young woman employed in tending children and carrying them about, from gero, to carry; a word probably received from the Romans while in England.]
1. A female child, or young woman. In familiar language, any young unmarried woman.
2. Among sportsmen, a roebuck of two years old.
Girlhood
GIRL'HOOD, noun The state of a girl. [Little used.]
Girlish
GIRL'ISH, adjective Like a young woman or child; befitting a girl.
1. Pertaining to the youth of a female.
Girlishly
GIRL'ISHLY, adverb In the manner of a girl.
Girrock
GIR'ROCK, noun A species of gar-fish, the lacertus.
Girt
GIRT, preterit tense and participle passive of gird.
GIRT, verb transitive To gird; to surround.
[This verb, if derived from the noun, girt may be proper.]
GIRT
Girth
GIRTH, noun The band or strap by which a saddle or any burden on a horse's back is made fast, by passing under his belly.
1. A circular bandage.
2. The compass measured by a firth or inclosing bandage.
He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth
GIRTH, verb transitive To bind with a girth
Gise
GISE, verb transitive To feed or pasture. [See Agist.]
Gisle
GIS'LE, noun A pledge. [Not in use.]
Gist
GIST, noun In law, the main point of a question; the point on which an action rests.
Gith
GITH, noun Guinea pepper.
Gittern
GIT'TERN, noun [Latin cithara.] A guitar. [See Guitar.]
GIT'TERN, verb intransitive To play on a gittern
Give
GIVE, verb transitive preterit tense gave; participle passive given. [Heb. to give The sense of give is generally to pass, or to transfer, that is, to send or throw.]
1. To bestow; to confer; to pass or transfer the title or property of a thing to another person without an equivalent or compensation.
For generous lords had rather give than pay.
2. To transmit from himself to another by hand, speech or writing; to deliver.
The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. .
3. To import; to bestow.
GIVE us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. .
4. To communicate; as, to give an opinion; to give counsel or advice; to give notice.
5. To pass or deliver the property of a thing to another for an equivalent; to pay. We give the full value of all we purchase. A dollar is given for a day's labor.
What shall a man give in exchange for this soul? .
6. To yield; to lend; in the phrase to give ear, which signifies to listen; to hear.
7. To quit; in the phrase to give place, which signifies to
withdraw, or retire to make room for another.
8. To confer; to grant.
What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? .
9. To expose; to yield to the power of.
GIVE to the wanton winds their flowing hair.
10. To grant; to allow; to permit.
It is given me once again to behold my friend.
11. To afford; to supply; to furnish.
Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings. .
12. To empower; to license; to commission.
Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
But this and similar phrases are probably elliptical; give for give power or license. So in the phrases, give me to understand, give me to know, give the flowers to blow, that is, to give power, to enable.
13. To pay or render; as, to give praise, applause or approbation.
14. To render; to pronounce; as, to give sentence or judgment; to give the word of command.
15. To utter; to vent; as, to give a shout.
16. To produce; to show; to exhibit as a product or result; as, the number of men divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
17. To cause to exist; to excite in another; as, to give offense or umbrage; to give pleasure.
18. To send forth; to emit; as, a stone gives sparks with steel.
19. To addict; to apply; to devote one's self, followed by the reciprocal pronoun. The soldiers give themselves to plunder. The passive participle is much used in this sense; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
GIVE thyself wholly to them. .
20. To resign; to yield up; often followed by up.
Who say, I care not, those I give for lost.
21. To pledge; as, I give my word that the debt shall be paid.
22. To present for taking or acceptance; as, I give you my hand.
23. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
To give away, to alienate the title or property of a thing; to make over to another; to transfer.
Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses, during our lives, is given away from ourselves.
To give back, to return; to restore.
To give forth, to publish; to tell; to report publicly.
To give the hand, to yield preeminence, as being subordinate or inferior.
To give in, to allow by way of abatement or deduction from a claim; to yield what may be justly demanded.
To give over, to leave; to quit; to cease; to abandon; as, to give over a pursuit.
1. To addict; to attach to; to abandon.
When the Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.
2. To despair of recovery; to believe to be lost, or past recovery. The physician had given over the patient, or given the patient over.
3. To abandon.
To give out, to utter publicly; to report; to proclaim; to publish. It was given out that parliament would assemble in November.
1. To issue; to send forth; to publish.
The night was distinguished by the orders which he gave out to his army.
2. To show; to exhibit in false appearance.
3. To send out; to emit; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
To give up, to resign; to quit; to yield as hopeless; as, to give up a cause; to give up the argument.
1. To surrender; as, to give up a fortress to an enemy.
2. To relinquish, to cede. In this treaty the Spaniards gave up Louisiana.
3. To abandon; as, to give up all hope. They are given up to believe a lie.
4. To deliver.
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king. .
To give one's self up, to despair of one's recovery; to conclude to be lost.
1. To resign or devote.
Let us give ourselves wholly up to Christ in heart and desire.
2. To addict; to abandon. He gave himself up to intemperance.
To give way, to yield; to withdraw to make room for. Inferiors should give way to superiors.
1. To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall. The ice gave way and the horses were drowned. The scaffolding gave way. The wheels or axletree gave way.
2. To recede; to make room for.
3. In seamen's language, give way is an order to a boat's crew to row after ceasing, or to increase their exertions.
GIVE, verb intransitive giv. To yield to pressure. The earth gives under the feet.
1. To begin to melt; to thaw; to grow soft, so as to yield to pressure.
2. To move; to recede.
Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.
To give in, to be back; to give way. [Not in use.]
To give into, to yield assent; to adopt.
This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.
To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Little used.
To give on, to rush; to fall on. [Not in use.]
To give out, to publish; to proclaim.
1. To cease from exertion; to yield; applied to persons. He labored hard, but gave out at last.
To give over, to cease; to act no more; to desert.
It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.
Given
GIV'EN, participle passive giv'n. Bestowed; granted; conferred; imparted; admitted or supposed.
Giver
GIV'ER, noun One who gives a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
It is the giver and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the christian.
Gives
GIVES, noun plural Fetters or shackles for the feet. [See Gyves.]
Giving
GIV'ING, participle present tense Bestowing; conferring; imparting; granting; delivering.
GIV'ING, noun The act of conferring.
1. An alleging of what is not real.
Gizzard
GIZ'ZARD, noun The strong musculus stomach of a fowl.
To fret the gizzard to harass; to vex one's self, or to be vexed.
Glabriate
GLA'BRIATE, verb transitive [Latin glabro.] To make smooth. [Not used.]
Glabrity
GLA'BRITY, noun Smoothness. [Not used.]
Glabrous
GLA'BROUS, adjective [Latin glaber, allied to Eng. glib.
Smooth; having an even surface.
Glacial
GLA'CIAL, adjective [Latin glacialis, from glacies, ice.]
Icy; consisting of ice; frozen.
Glaciate
GLA'CIATE, verb intransitive To turn to ice.
Glaciation
GLACIA'TION, noun [supra.] The act of freezing; ice formed.
Glacier
GLA'CIER, noun A field or immense mass of ice, formed in deep but elevated valleys, or on the sides of the Alps or other mountains. These masses of ice extend many miles in length and breadth, and remain undissolved by the heat of summer.
Glacious
GLA'CIOUS, adjective Like ice; icy.
Glacis
GLA'CIS, noun In building, or gardening, an easy, insensible slope.
1. In fortification, a sloping bank; that mass of earth which serves as a parapet to the covered way, having an easy slope or declivity towards the champaign or field.
Glad
GLAD, adjective [Latin loetus, without a prefix.]
1. Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.
A wise son maketh a glad father. .
It is usually followed by of. I am glad of an opportunity to oblige my friend.
It is sometimes followed by at.
He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. .
It is sometimes followed by with.
The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood--
With, after glad is unusual, and in this passage at would have been preferable.
2. Cheerful; joyous.
They blessed the king, and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart. .
3. Cheerful; wearing the appearance of joy; as a glad countenance.
4. Wearing a gay appearance; showy; bright.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them. .
GLAD evening and glad morn crown'd the fourth day.
5. Pleasing; exhilarating.
Her conversation
More glad to me than to a miser money is.
6. Expressing gladness or joy; exciting joy.
Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers.
GLAD, verb transitive [The preterit tense and participle passive gladed is not used. See Gladden.]
To make glad; to affect with pleasure; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
Gladden
GLAD'DEN, verb transitive glad'n. To make glad; to cheer; to please; to exhilarate. The news of peace gladdens our hearts.
Churches will every where gladden his eye,
and hymns of praise vibrate upon his ear.
GLAD'DEN, verb intransitive glad'n. To become glad; to rejoice.
So shall your country ever gladden at the sound of your voice.
Gladder
GLAD'DER, noun One that makes glad, or gives joy.
Gladding
GLAD'DING, participle present tense Making glad; cheering; giving joy.
Glade
GLADE, noun An opening or passage made through a wood by lopping off the branches of the trees. Locally, in the U. States, a natural opening or open place in a forest.
There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
1. In New England, an opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen.
GLADE, noun Smooth ice.
Gladen
GLA'DEN
GLA'DER, noun [Latin glaldius, a sword.] Swordgrass; the general name of plants that rise with a broad blade like sedge.
Glader
GLA'DER, n. [L. glaldius, a sword.] Swordgrass; the general name of plants that rise with a broad blade like sedge.
Gladful
GLAD'FUL, adjective Full of gladness.
Gladfulness
GLAD'FULNESS, noun Joy; gladness.
Gladiate
GLA'DIATE, adjective [Latin gladius, a sword.] Sword-shaped; resembling the form of a sword; as the legume of a plant.
Gladiator
GLADIA'TOR, noun [Latin from gladius, a sword.]
A sword-player; a prize-fighter. The gladiators, in Rome, were men who fought in the arena, for the entertainment of the people.
Gladiatorial
GLADIATO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to gladiators, or to combats for the entertainment of the Roman people.
Gladiatory
GLA'DIATORY, adjective Relating to gladiators.
Gladiature
GLA'DIATURE, noun Sword-play; fencing. [Not in use.]
Gladiole
GLAD'IOLE, noun [Latin gladiolus, a dagger.] A plant, the sword-lily, of the genus Gladiolus. The water gladiole is of the genus Butomus or flowering rush, and also of the genus Lobelia or cardinal flower.
Gladly
GLAD'LY, adverb [See Glad.] With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully.
The common people heard him gladly .
Gladness
GLAD'NESS, noun [See Glad.] Joy, or a moderate degree of joy and exhilaration; pleasure of mind; cheerfulness.
They--did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. .
[Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety and triumph, and it usually expresses less than delight. It sometimes expresses great joy. .]
Gladsome
GLAD'SOME, adjective Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
1. Causing joy, pleasure or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.
Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day.
Gladsomely
GLAD'SOMELY, adverb With joy; with pleasure of mind.
Gladsomeness
GLAD'SOMENESS, noun Joy, or moderate joy; pleasure of mind.
1. Showiness.
Gladwin
GLAD'WIN, noun A plant of the genus Iris.
Glair
GLAIR, noun [Eng. clear, Latin clarus, and with Eng. glare, and Latin gloria; perhaps with Latin glarea, gravel, or pieces of quartz.]
1. The white of an egg. It is used as a varnish for preserving paintings.
2. Any viscous transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
3. A kind of halbert.
GLAIR, verb transitive To smear with the white of an egg; to varnish.
Glairy
GLA'IRY, adjective Like glair, or partaking of its qualities.
Glance
GL'ANCE, noun [The primary sense is to shoot, to throw, to dart.]
1. A sudden shoot of light or splendor.
2. A shoot or darting of sight; a rapid or momentary view or cast; a snatch of sight; as a sudden glance; a glance of the eye.
GL'ANCE, verb intransitive To shoot or dart a ray of light or splendor.
When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly.
1. To fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. The arrow struck the shield and glanced. So we say, a glancing ball or shot.
2. To look with a sudden rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
Then sit again, and sigh and glance
3. To hint; to cast a word or reflection; as to glance at a different subject.
4. To censure by oblique hints.
GL'ANCE, verb transitive To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
Glance-Coal
GL'ANCE-COAL, noun Anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. [See Anthracite.]
Glancing
GL'ANCING, participle passive Shooting; darting; casting suddenly; flying off obliquely.
Glancingly
GL'ANCINGLY, adverb By glancing; in a glancing manner; transiently.
Gland
GLAND, noun [Latin glans, a nut; glandula, a gland ]
1. In anatomy, a distinct soft body, formed by the convolution of a great number of vessels, either constituting a part of the lymphatic system, or destined to secrete some fluid from the blood. Glands have been divided into conglobate and conglomerate, from their structure; but a more proper division is into lymphatic and secretory. The former are found in the course of the lymphatic vessels, and are conglobate. The latter are of various structure. They include the mucous follicles, the conglomerate glands, properly so called, such as the parotid glands and the pancreas, the liver, kidneys, etc. The term has also been applied to other bodies of a similar appearance, neither lymphatic nor secretory; such as the thymus and thyroid glands, whose use is not certainly known, certain portions of the brain, as the pineal
and pituitary glands, etc. [See Conglobate and Conglomerate.]
2. In botany, a gland or glandule is an excretory or secretory duct or vessel in a plant. Glands are found on the leaves, petioles, peduncles and stipules.
Glandered
GLAND'ERED, adjective Affected with glanders.
Glanders
GLAND'ERS, noun [from gland.] In farriery, the running of corrupt slimy matter from the nose of a horse.
Glandiferous
GLANDIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin glandifer; glans, an acorn, and fero, to bear.]
Bearing acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast. The beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.
Glandiform
GLAND'IFORM, adjective [Latin glans and forma, form.]
In the shape of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
Glandular
GLAND'ULAR, adjective Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
Glandulation
GLANDULA'TION, noun In botany, the situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles or utricles.
Glandule
GLAND'ULE, noun [Latin glandula.] A small gland or secreting vessel.
Glanduliferous
GLANDULIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin glandula and fero, to bear.]
Bearing glands.
Glandulosity
GLANDULOS'ITY, noun A collection of glands. [Little used.]
Glandulous
GLAND'ULOUS, adjective [Latin glandulosus.] Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
Glare
GLARE, noun
1. A bright dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or splendor, that dazzles the eyes.
The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
2. A fierce, piercing look.
--About them round,
A lion now he stalks with fiery glare
3. A viscous transparent substance. [See Glair.]
GLARE, verb intransitive To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light; as glaring light.
The cavern glares with new admitted light.
1. To look with fierce, piercing eyes.
They glared, like angry lions.
2. To shine with excessive luster; to be ostentatiously splendid; as a glaring dress.
She glares in balls, front boxes and the ring.
GLARE, verb transitive To shoot a dazzling light.
Glareous
GLA'REOUS, adjective Resembling the white of an egg; viscous and transparent or white.
Glaring
GLA'RING, participle present tense Emitting a clear and brilliant light; shining with dazzling luster.
1. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as a glaring crime.
Glaringly
GLA'RINGLY, adverb Openly; clearly; notoriously.
Glass
GL'ASS, noun [Latin glastum; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as Latin viridis, from vireo.]
1. A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.
2. A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass
3. A mirror; a looking-glass.
4. A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
5. The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.
6. The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wine with me.
7. A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
8. A perspective glass; as an optic glass
9. The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, a ship fought three glasses.
10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.
GL'ASS, adjective Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.
GL'ASS, verb transitive To see as in a glass [Not used.]
1. To case in glass [Little used.]
2. To cover with glass; to glaze.
[In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.]
Glass-Gazing
GL'ASS-GAZING, adjective Addicted to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.
Glassblower
GL'ASSBLOWER, noun One whose business is to blow and fashion glass.
Glassfull
GL'ASSFULL, noun As much as a glass holds.
Glassfurnace
GL'ASSFURNACE, noun A furnace in which the materials of glass are melted.
Glassgrinder
GL'ASSGRINDER, noun One whose occupation is to grind and polish glass.
Glasshouse
GL'ASSHOUSE, noun A house where glass is made.
Glassiness
GL'ASSINESS, noun The quality of being glassy or smooth; a vitreous appearance.
Glasslike
GL'ASSLIKE, adjective Resembling glass.
Glassman
GL'ASSMAN, noun One who sells glass.
Glassmetal
GL'ASSMETAL, noun Glass in fusion.
Glasspot
GL'ASSPOT, noun A vessel used for melting glass in manufactories.
Glasswork
GL'ASSWORK, noun Manufacture of glass.
Glassworks
GL'ASSWORKS, noun plural The place or buildings where glass is made.
Glasswort
GL'ASSWORT, noun A plant, the Salsola, of several species, all which may be used in the manufacture of glass. The Barilla of commerce, is the semifused ashes of the Salsola soda, which is largely cultivated on the Mediterranean in Spain.
Glassy
GL'ASSY, adjective Made of glass; vitreous; as a glassy substance.
1. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
Glauber-Salt
GLAUB'ER-SALT, noun Sulphate of soda, a well known cathartic.
Glauberite
GLAUB'ERITE, noun A mineral of a grayish white or yellowish color, consisting of dry sulphate of lime and dry sulphate of soda.
Glaucoma
GLAUCO'MA, noun [Gr.] A fault in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes gray, but without injury to the sight.
A disease in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes of a bluish or greenish color, and its transparency is diminished.
An opacity of the vitreous humor.
According to Sharp, the glaucoma of the Greeks is the same as the cataract; and according to St. Yves and others, it is a cataract with amaurosis.
Glaucous
GLAUC'OUS, adjective [Latin glaucus.] Of a sea green color; of a light green.
Glave
GLAVE, noun A broadsword; a falchion. [Not used.]
Glaver
GLAV'ER, verb intransitive [Latin glaber, lavis, or lubricus; Eng. glib.]
To flatter; to wheedle. [Little used and vulgar.]
Glaverer
GLAV'ERER, noun A flatterer. [supra.]
Glaze
GLAZE, verb transitive [from glass.] To furnish with windows of glass; as, to glaze a house.
1. To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen ware.
2. To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of a thing smooth, bright and showy.
Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons.
3. To give a glass surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.
Glazed
GLA'ZED, participle passive Furnished with glass windows; incrusted with a substance resembling glass; rendered smooth and shining.
Glazier
GLA'ZIER, noun gla'zhur. [from glaze or glass.]
One whose business is to set window glass, or to fix panes of glass to the sashes of windows, to pictures, etc.
Glazing
GLA'ZING, participle present tense Furnishing with window glass.
1. Crusting with a vitreous substance, as potter's ware.
2. Giving a smooth, glossy, shining surface, as to cloth.
GLA'ZING, noun The vitreous substance with which potter's ware is incrusted.
Gleam
GLEAM, noun [Latin flamma.] The radical sense is to throw, to shoot or dart, and it may be of the same family as clamo, clamor, a shoot of the voice.
1. A shoot of light; a beam; a ray; a small stream of light. A gleam of dawning light, metaphorically, a gleam of hope.
2. Brightness; splendor.
In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
GLEAM, verb intransitive To shoot or dart, as rays of light. At the dawn light gleams in the east.
1. To shine; to cast light.
2. To flash; to spread a flood of light. [Less common.]
3. Among falconers, to disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Gleaming
GLE'AMING, participle present tense Shooting as rays of light; shining.
GLE'AMING, noun A shoot or shooting of light.
Gleamy
GLE'AMY, adjective Darting beams of light; casting light in rays.
In brazen arms, that cast a gleamy ray,
Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.
Glean
GLEAN, verb transitive
1. To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them.
Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn - .
2. To collect things thinly scattered; to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels; as, to glean a few passages from an author.
They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men. .
GLEAN, verb intransitive To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. .
GLEAN, noun A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
Gleaned
GLE'ANED, participle passive Gathered after reapers; collected from small detached parcels; as grain gleaned from the field.
1. Cleared of what is left; as, the field is gleaned
2. Having suffered a gleaning. The public prints have been gleaned
Gleaner
GLE'ANER, noun One who gathers after reapers.
1. One who collects detached parts or numbers, or who gathers slowly with labor.
Gleaning
GLE'ANING, participle present tense Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.
GLE'ANING, noun The act of gathering after reapers.
1. That which is collected by gleaning
Glebe
GLEBE, noun [Latin gleba, a clod or clump of earth.]
1. Turf; soil; ground.
Till the glad summons of a genial ray
Unbinds the glebe---
2. The land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
3. A crystal.
4. Among miners, a piece of earth in which is contained some mineral ore.
Glebous
GLE'BOUS, adjective Gleby; turfy.
Gleby
GLE'BY, adjective Turfy; cloddy.
Glede
GLEDE, noun A fowl of the rapacious kind, the kite, a species of Falcon. The word is used in . but the same Hebrew word, . is rendered a vulture.
Glee
GLEE, noun
1. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
2. A sort of catch or song sung in parts.
Gleed
GLEED, noun A glowing coal.
Gleeful
GLEE'FUL, adjective Merry; gay; joyous.
Gleek
GLEEK, noun [See Glee.] Music, or a musician.
1. A scoff; a game at cards.
GLEEK, verb intransitive To make sport of; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.
Gleeman
GLEE'MAN, noun A musician.
Gleen
GLEEN, verb intransitive To shine; to glisten. [Not used.]
Gleesome
GLEE'SOME, adjective Merry; joyous.
Gleet
GLEET, noun The flux of a thin humor from the urethra; a thin ichor running from a sore.
GLEET, verb intransitive To flow in a thin limpid humor; to ooze.
1. To flow slowly, as water.
Gleety
GLEET'Y, adjective Ichorous; thin; limpid.
Glen
GLEN, noun A valley; a dale; a depression or space between hills.
Glene
GLENE, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, the cavity or socket of the eye, and the pupil; any slight depression or cavity receiving a bone in articulation.
Glew
GLEW. [See Glue.]
Gliadine
GLI'ADINE, noun [Gr. glue.] One of the constituents of gluten, a slightly transparent, brittle substance, of a straw-yellow color, having a slight smell, similar to that of honeycomb.
Glib
GLIB, adjective [Latin glaber, smooth; labor, to slide. This word contains the elements of slip. Qu. Latin glubo.]
1. Smooth; slippery; admitting a body to slide easily on the surface; as, ice is glib
2. Smooth; voluble; easily moving; as a glib tongue.
GLIB, noun A thick curled bush of hair hanging down over the eyes. [Not in use.]
GLIB, verb transitive To castrate.
1. To make smooth.
Glibly
GLIB'LY, adverb Smoothly; volubly; as, to slide glibly; to speak glibly
Glibness
GLIB'NESS, noun Smoothness; slipperiness; as a polished ice-like glibness
1. Volubility of the tongue.
Glide
GLIDE, verb intransitive
1. To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.
By east, among the dusty vallies glide
The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.
2. To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.
3. To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.
4. In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.
GLIDE, noun The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.
Glider
GLI'DER, noun He or that which glides.
Gliding
GLI'DING, participle present tense Passing along gently and smoothly; moving rapidly, or with ease.
Glimmer
GLIM'MER, verb intransitive
1. To shoot feeble or scattered rays of light; as the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
When rosy morning glimmer'd o'er the dales.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
2. To shine faintly; to give a feeble light.
Mild evening glimmered on the lawn.
GLIM'MER, noun A faint light; feeble scattered rays of light.
1. In mineralogy, mica, glist, muscovy-glass; a mineral resulting from crystallization, but rarely found in regular crystals. usually it appears in thin, flexible, elastic lamins, which exhibit a high polish and strong luster. It is an essential ingredient in granite, gneiss, and mica slate.
Glimmering
GLIM'MERING, participle present tense Shining faintly; shooting feeble scattered rays of light.
GLIM'MERING, noun A faint beaming of light.
1. A faint view.
Glimpse
GLIMPSE, noun glims.
1. A weak faint light.
Such vast room in Nature,
Only to shine, yet scarce to contribute
Each orb a glimpse of light.
2. A flash of light; as the lightning's glimpse
3. Transient luster.
One glimpse of glory to my issue give.
4. A short transitory view. He saw at a glimpse the design of the enemy.
5. Short fleeting enjoyment; as a glimpse of delight.
6. Exhibition of a faint resemblance.
GLIMPSE, verb intransitive To appear by glimpses.
Glissa
GLIS'SA, noun A fish of the tunny kind, without scales.
Glist
GLIST, noun [from glisten.] Glimmer; mica. [See Glimmer.]
Glisten
GLIS'TEN, verb intransitive glis'n. [Heb. to shine; Latin glisco; Eng. gloss.]
To shine; to sparkle with light; as the glistening stars.
The ladies' eyes glistened with pleasure.
Glistening
GLIS'TENING, participle present tense Shining; sparkling; emitting rays of light.
Glister
GLIS'TER, verb intransitive [See Glisten.] To shine; to be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant.
All that glistens is not gold.
GLISTER. [See Clyster.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.