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Glistering

GLIS'TERING, participle present tense Shining; sparkling with light.

Glisteringly

GLIS'TERINGLY, adverb With shining luster.

Glitter

GLIT'TER, verb intransitive

1. To shine; to sparkle with light; to gleam; to be splendid; as a glittering sword.

The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.

2. To be showing, specious or striking, and hence attractive; as the glittering scenes of a court.

GLIT'TER, noun Brightness; brilliancy; splendor; luster; as the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage; the glitter of dress.

Glitterand

GLIT'TERAND, participle present tense or adjective Sparkling. [Not in use.]

Glittering

GLIT'TERING, participle present tense Shining; splendid; brilliant.

Glitteringly

GLIT'TERINGLY, adverb With sparkling luster.

Gloam

GLOAM, verb intransitive To be sullen. [See Glum.]

Gloar

GLOAR, verb intransitive To squint; to stare.

Gloat

GLOAT, verb intransitive To cast side glances; to stare with eagerness or admiration.

Globate

GLO'BATE

GLO'BATED, adjective [Latin globatus.] Having the form of a globe; spherical; spheroidal.

Globe

GLOBE, noun [Latin globus; Eng. clew. See Clew.]

1. A round or spherical solid body; a ball; a sphere; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center.

2. The earth; the terraqueous ball; so called, though not perfectly spherical.

3. An artificial sphere of metal, paper or other matter, on whose convex surface is drawn a map or representation of the earth or of the heavens. That on which the several oceans, seas, continents, isles and countries of the earth are represented, is called a terrestrial globe That which exhibits a delineation of the constellations in the heavens, is called a celestial globe

4. A body of soldiers formed into a circle.

GLOBE, verb transitive To gather round or into a circle.

Globe-Amaranth

GLOBE-AMARANTH, noun A plant of the genus Gomphrena. [See Amaranth.]

Globe-Animal

GLOBE-ANIMAL, noun A species of animalcule of a globular form.

Globe-Daisy

GLOBE-DAISY, noun A plant or flower of the genus Globularia.

Globe-Fish

GLO'BE-FISH, noun A fish of a globular shape, the Ostracion.

Globe-Flower

GLO'BE-FLOWER, noun A plant or flower of the genus Sphaeranthus.

Globe-Ranunculus

GLOBE-RANUN'CULUS, noun A plant, the Trollius europaeus.

Globe-Thistle

GLO'BE-THISTLE, noun A plant of the genus Echinops.

Globose

GLOBO'SE, adjective [Latin globosus, from globe.]

Round; spherical; globular.

Globosity

GLOBOS'ITY, noun The quality of being round; sphericity.

Globous

GLO'BOUS, adjective [Latin globosus.] Round; spherical.

Globular

GLOB'ULAR, adjective [from globe.] Round; spherical; having the form of a small ball or sphere; as globular atoms.

Globularia

GLOBULA'RIA, noun A flosculous flower.

Globule

GLOB'ULE, noun [Latin globulus, dim. of globus.]

A little globe; a small particle of matter of a spherical form; a word particularly applied to the red particles of blood, which swim in a transparent serum, and may be discovered by the microscope.

Hail stones have opake globules of snow in their center.

Globulous

GLOB'ULOUS, adjective Round; globular; having the form of a small sphere.

Globy

GLO'BY, adjective Round; orbicular.

Glode

GLODE, old preterit tense of glide.

Glome

GLOME, noun [Latin glomus; Heb. to wind, convolve, or collect into a mass.] In botany, a roundish head of flowers.

Glomerate

GLOM'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin glomero, from glomus, supra.]

To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.

Glomerated

GLOM'ERATED, participle passive Gathered into a ball or round mass.

Glomerating

GLOM'ERATING, participle present tense Collecting or winding into a ball or round mass.

Glomeration

GLOMERA'TION, noun [Latin glomertio.] The act of gathering, winding or forming into a ball or spherical body.

1. A body formed into a ball.

Glomerous

GLOM'EROUS, adjective [Latin glomerosus.] Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.

Gloom

GLOOM, noun

1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.

2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.

3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.

4. Sullenness.

GLOOM, verb intransitive To shine obscurely or imperfectly.

1. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.

2. To be melancholy or dejected.

GLOOM, verb transitive To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.

Gloomily

GLOOM'ILY, adverb [from gloomy.] Obscurely; dimly; darkly; dismally.

1. With melancholy aspect; sullenly; not cheerfully.

Gloominess

GLOOM'INESS, noun Want of light; obscurity; darkness; dismalness.

1. Want of cheerfulness; cloudiness of look; heaviness of mind; melancholy; as, to involve the mind in gloominess

Gloomy

GLOOM'Y, adjective [from gloom.] Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; or dark; dismal; as the gloomy cells of a convent; the gloomy shades of night.

1. Wearing the aspect of sorrow; melancholy; clouded; dejected; depressed; heavy of heart; as a gloomy countenance or state of mind; a gloomy temper.

2. Of a dark complexion. [Little used.]

Gloriation

GLORIA'TION, noun [Latin gloriatio.] Boast; a triumphing. [Not used.]

Gloried

GLO'RIED, adjective [See Glory.] Illustrious; honorable. [Not used.]

Glorification

GLORIFICA'TION, noun [See Glorify.] The act of giving glory or of ascribing honors to.

1. Exaltation to honor and dignity; elevation to glory; as the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.

Glorified

GLO'RIFIED, participle passive Honored; dignified; exalted to glory.

Glorify

GLO'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin gloria and facio, to make.]

1. To praise; to magnify and honor in worship; to ascribe honor to, in thought or words. Psalms 86:9

God is glorified, when such his excellency, above all things, is with due admiration acknowledged.

2. To make glorious; to exalt to glory, or to celestial happiness.

Whom he justified, them he also glorified. Romans 8:1.

The God of our fathers hath glorified his son

Jesus. Acts 3:1.

3. To praise; to honor; to extol.

Whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life--him they set up and glorify

4. To procure honor or praise to.

Glorifying

GLO'RIFYING, participle present tense Praising; honoring in worship; exalting to glory; honoring; extolling.

Glorious

GLO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin gloriosus. See Glory.]

1. Illustrious; of exalted excellence and splendor; resplendent in majesty and divine attributes; applied to God. Exodus 15:11.

2. Noble; excellent; renowned; celebrated; illustrious; very honorable; applied to men, their achievements, titles, etc.

Let us remember we are Cato's friends,

And act like men who claim that glorious title.

3. Boastful; self-exulting; haughty; ostentatious.

Gloriously

GLO'RIOUSLY, adverb Splendidly; illustriously; with great renown or dignity.

Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously Exodus 15:1.

Glory

GLO'RY, noun [Latin gloria; planus; hence, bright, shining. glory then, is brightness, splendor. The Latin floreo, to blossom, to flower, to flourish, is probably of the same family.]

1. Brightness; luster; splendor.

The moon, serene in glory mounts the sky.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory 2 Peter 1:17.

In this passage of Peter, the latter word glory refers to the visible splendor or bright cloud that overshadowed Christ at his transfiguration. The former word glory though the same in the original, is to be understood in a figurative sense.

2. Splendor; magnificence.

Solomon, in all his glory was not arrayed like one

of these. Matthew 6:2.

3. The circle of rays surrounding the head of a figure in painting.

4. Praise ascribed in adoration; honor.

Glory to God in the highest. Luke 2:9.

5. Honor; praise; fame; renown; celebrity. The hero pants for glory in the field. It was the glory of Howard to relieve the wretched.

6. The felicity of heaven prepared for the children of God; celestial bliss.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory Psalms 73:24.

7. In scripture, the divine presence; or the ark, the manifestation of it.

The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Samuel 4:21.

8. The divine perfections or excellence.

The heavens declare the glory of God. Psalms 19:1.

9. Honorable representation of God. 1 Corinthians 11:8.

10. Distinguished honor or ornament; that which honors or makes renowned; that of which one may boast.

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. Isaiah 13:19.

11. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance; as vain glory

12. Generous pride.

GLO'RY, verb intransitive [Latin glorior, from gloria.]

To exult with joy; to rejoice.

Glory ye in his holy name. Psa 105. 1 Chronicles 16:10.

1. To boast; to be proud of.

No one should glory in his prosperity.

Glorying

GLO'RYING, participle present tense Exulting with joy; boasting.

GLO'RYING, noun The act of exulting; exultation; boasting; display of pride.

Your glorying is not good. 1 Corinthians 5:6.

Glose

GLOSE, GLOSER. [See Gloze.]

Gloser

GLOSE, GLOSER [See Gloze.]

Gloss

GLOSS, noun [Gr. the tongue, and a strap. Latin has glossa, a tongue, and interpretation. In Heb. signifies to shine, but from the sense of smoothness. Latin lustro; Eng. luster.]

1. Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; as the gloss of silk; cloth is calendared to give it a gloss

2. A specious appearance or representation; external show that may mislead opinion.

It is no part of my secret meaning to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford.

3. An interpretation artfully specious.

4. Interpretation; comment; explanation; remark intended to illustrate a subject.

All this, without a gloss or comment,

He would unriddle in a moment.

Explaining the text in short glosses.

5. A literal translation.

GLOSS, verb transitive To give a superficial luster to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth by the calendar; to gloss mahogany.

1. To explain; to render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate.

2. To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious representation.

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

GLOSS, verb intransitive To comment; to write or make explanatory remarks.

1. To make sly remarks.

Glossarial

GLOSSA'RIAL, adjective Containing explanation.

Glossarist

GLOSS'ARIST, noun A writer of glosses or comments.

Glossary

GLOSS'ARY, noun [Low Latin glossarium.]

A dictionary or vocabulary, explaining obscure or antiquated words found in old authors; such as Du Canage's Glossary; Spelman's glossary

Glossator

GLOSSA'TOR, noun A writer of comments; a commentator. [Not used.

Glossed

GLOSS'ED, participle passive Made smooth and shining; explained.

Glosser

GLOSS'ER, noun A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.

1. A polisher; one who gives a luster.

Glossiness

GLOSS'INESS, noun [from glossy.] The luster or brightness of a smooth surface.

Glossing

GLOSS'ING, participle present tense Giving luster to; polishing; explaining by comments; giving a specious appearance.

Glossist

GLOSS'IST, noun A writer of comments. [Not in use.]

Glossographer

GLOSSOG'RAPHER, noun [gloss and Gr. to write.]

A writer of glosses; a commentator; a scholiast.

Glossography

GLOSSOG'RAPHY, noun The writing of comments for illustrating an author.

Glossologist

GLOSSOL'OGIST, noun [gloss.] One who writes glosses; a commentator.

Glossology

GLOSSOL'OGY, noun [gloss and Gr. discourse.]

Glosses or commentaries; explanatory notes for illustrating an author.

Glossy

GLOSS'Y, adjective Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth

surface; highly polished; as glossy silk; a glossy raven; a glossy plum.

Glottis

GLOT'TIS, noun [Gr. the tongue.] The narrow opening at the upper part of the aspera arteria or windpipe, which, by its dilatation and contraction, contributes to the modulation of the voice.

Glout

GLOUT, verb intransitive To pout; to look sullen. [Not used.]

GLOUT, verb transitive To view attentively. [Not in use.]

Glove

GLOVE, noun A cover for the hand, or for the hand and arm, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter circumstance distinguishes the glove from the mitten.

To throw the glove with our ancestors, was to challenge to single combat.

GLOVE, verb transitive To cover with a glove

Glover

GLOVER, noun One whose occupation is to make and sell gloves.

Glow

GLOW, verb intransitive

1. To shine with intense heat; or perhaps more correctly, to shine with a white heat; to exhibit incandescence. Hence, in a more general sense, to shine with a bright luster.

GLOWs in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

2. To burn with vehement heat.

The scorching fire that in their entrails glows.

3. To feel great heat of body; to be hot.

Did not his temples glow

In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

4. To exhibit a strong bright color; to be red.

Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.

Fair ideas flow,

Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow

5. To be bright or red with heat or animation, or with blushes; as glowing cheeks.

6. To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.

We say, the heart glows with love or zeal; the glowing breast.

When real virtue fires the glowing bard.

If you have never glowed with gratitude to the author of the christian revelation, you know nothing of christianity.

7. To burn with intense heat; to rage; as passion.

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.

GLOW, verb intransitive To heat so as to shine. [Not used.]

GLOW, noun Shining heat, or white heat.

1. Brightness of color; redness; as the glow of health in the cheeks.

A waving glow his bloomy beds display,

Blushing in bright diversities of day.

2. Vehemence of passion.

Glowing

GLOWING, participle present tense Shining with intense heat; white with heat.

1. Burning with vehement heat.

2. Exhibiting a bright color; red; as a glowing color; glowing cheeks.

3. Ardent; vehement; animated; as glowing zeal.

4. Inflamed; as a glowing breast.

Glowingly

GLOWINGLY, adverb With great brightness; with ardent heat or passion.

Glowworm

GLOWWORM, noun The female of the Lampyris noctiluca, an insect of the order of Coleopters. It is without wings and resembles a caterpillar. It emits a shining green light from the extremity of the abdomen. The male is winged and flies about in the evening, when it is attracted by the light of the female.

Gloze

GLOZE, verb intransitive To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; that is, to smooth, or to talk smoothly.

So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd.

A false glozing parasite.

GLOZE, noun Flattery; adulation.

1. Specious show; gloss. [Not used. See Gloss.]

Glozer

GLO'ZER, noun A flatterer.

Glozing

GLO'ZING, participle present tense Flattering; wheedling.

GLO'ZING, noun Specious representation.

Glucin

GLU'CIN, noun [Gr.] A soft white earth or powder obtained from the beryl and emerald; so named from its forming, with acids, salts that are sweet to the taste.

Glucin is a compound, of which glucinum is the base.

Glue

GLUE, noun glu. [Latin gluten.]

Inspissated animal gluten; a tenacious, viscid matter, which serves as a cement to unite other substances. It is made of the skins, parings, etc. of animals, as of oxen, calves or sheep, by boiling them to a jelly.

GLUE, verb transitive To join with glue or a viscous substance. Cabinet makers glue together some parts of furniture.

1. To unite; to hold together.

[This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense. The phrases, to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]

Glueboiler

GLU'EBOILER, noun [glue and boil.] One whose occupation is to make glue.

Glued

GLU'ED, participle passive United or cemented with glue.

Gluer

GLU'ER, noun One who cements with glue.

Gluey

GLU'EY, adjective Viscous; glutinous.

Glueyness

GLU'EYNESS, noun The quality of being gluey.

Gluing

GLU'ING, participle present tense Cementing with glue.

Gluish

GLU'ISH, adjective Having the nature of glue.

Glum

GLUM, adjective Frowning; sullen. [Little used.]

GLUM, noun Sullenness; and, as a verb, to look sullen. [Not in use.]

Glumaceous

GLUMA'CEOUS, adjective Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

Glume

GLUME, noun [Latin gluma, from glubo, to bark or peel.]

In botany, the calyx or corol of corn and grasses, formed of valves embracing the seed, often terminated by the arista or beard; the husk or chaff.

Glummy

GLUM'MY, adjective Dark; gloomy; dismal.

Glumous

GLU'MOUS, adjective A glumous flower is a kind of aggregate flower, having a filiform receptacle, with a common glume at the base.

Glut

GLUT, verb intransitive [Latin glutio, Low Latin gluto, a glutton.]

1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge.

2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites.

3. To feast or delight even to satiety.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,

Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.

4. To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market.

5. To saturate.

GLUT, noun That which is swallowed.

1. Plenty even to loathing.

He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights.

A glut of study and retirement.

2. More than enough; superabundance.

3. Any thing that fills or obstructs the passage.

4. A wooden wedge.

Gluteal

GLU'TEAL, adjective [Gr. nates.] The gluteal artery, is a branch of the hypogastric or internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal muscles.

The gluteal muscles, are three large muscles on each side, which make up the fleshy part of the buttocks.

Gluten

GLUTEN, noun [Latin See Glue.] A tough elastic substance, of a grayish color, which becomes brown and brittle by drying; found in the flour of wheat and other grain. It contributes much to the nutritive quality of flour, and gives tenacity to its paste. A similar substance is found in the juices of certain plants.

1. That part of the blood which gives firmness to its texture.

Glutinate

GLU'TINATE, verb transitive To unite with glue; to cement.

Glutination

GLUTINA'TION, noun The act of uniting with glue.

Glutinative

GLU'TINATIVE, adjective Having the quality of cementing; tenacious.

Glutinosity

GLUTINOS'ITY, noun The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.

Glutinous

GLU'TINOUS, noun [Latin glutinosus.] Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue. Starch is glutinous

1. In botany, besmeared with a slippery moisture; as a glutinous leaf.

Glutinousness

GLU'TINOUSNESS, noun Viscosity; viscidity; the quality of glue, tenacity.

Glutton

GLUT'TON, noun glut'n. [Low Latin gluto.] One who indulges to excess in eating.

1. One eager of any thing to excess.

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.

2. In zoology, an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the noun of Europe and Siberia. It grows to the length of three feet, but has short legs and moves slowly. It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal. It is names from its voracious appetite.

Gluttonize

GLUT'TONIZE, verb intransitive To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious.

Gluttonous

GLUT'TONOUS, adjective Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; as a gluttonous age.

1. Consisting in excessive eating; as gluttonous delight.

Gluttonously

GLUT'TONOUSLY, adverb With the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating.

Gluttony

GLUT'TONY, noun Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.

1. Luxury of the table.

Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts.

2. Voracity of appetite.

Glyconian

GLYCO'NIAN

GLYCON'IC, adjective [Low Latin glyconium.] Denoting a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of three feet, a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; as Glyconic measure.

Glyn

GLYN. [See Glen.]

Glyph

GLYPH, noun [Gr. to carve.] In sculpture and architecture, a canal, channel or cavity intended as an ornament.

Glyphic

GLYPH'IC, noun A picture or figure by which a word is implied. [See Hieroglyphic.]

Glyptic

GLYP'TIC, noun [supra.] The art of engraving figures on precious stones.

Glyptographic

GLYPTOGRAPH'IC, adjective [Gr.] Describing the methods of engraving on precious stones.

Glyptograpny

GLYPTOG'RAPNY, noun [supra.] A description of the art of engraving on precious stones.

Gnar

GN'AR

GN'ARL, verb intransitive n'ar and n'arl. To growl; to murmur; to snarl.

And wolves are gnarling which shall gnaw thee first.

[Gnar is nearly obsolete.]

Gnarled

GN'ARLED, adjective n'arled. Knotty; full of knots; as the gnarled oak.

Gnash

GNASH, verb transitive nash. To strike the teeth together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth in rage.

GNASH, verb intransitive nash. To grind the teeth.

He shall gnash with his teeth and melt away. Psalms 112:10.

1. To rage even to collision with the teeth; to growl.

They gnashed on me with their teeth. Psalms 35:16.

Gnashing

GNASH'ING, participle present tense nash'ing. Striking the teeth together, as in anger, rage or pain.

GNASH'ING, noun nash'ing. A grinding or striking of the teeth in rage or anguish.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 8:12.

Gnat

GNAT, noun nat. A small insect, or rather a genus of insects, the Culex, whose long cylindric body is composed of eight rings. They have six legs and their mouth is formed by a flexible sheath, inclosing bristles pointed like stings. The sting is a tube containing five or six spicula of exquisite fineness, dentated or edged. The most troublesome of this genus is the musketoe.

1. Any thing proverbially small.

Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Matthew 23:24.

Gnatflower

GNAT'FLOWER, noun A flower, called also bee-flower.

Gnatsnapper

GNAT'SNAPPER, noun A bird that catches gnats.

Gnatworm

GNAT'WORM, noun A small water insect produced by a gnat, and which after its several changes is transformed into a gnat; the larva of a gnat.

Gnaw

GNAW, verb transitive naw. [ Gr. to scrape.]

1. To bite off by little and little; to bite or scrape off with the fore teeth; to wear away by biting. The rats gnaw a board or plank; a worm gnaws the wood of a tree or the plank of a ship.

2. To eat by biting off small portions of food with the fore teeth.

3. To bite in agony or rage.

They gnawed their tongues for pain. Revelation 16:10.

4. To waste; to fret; to corrode.

5. To pick with the teeth.

His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw

GNAW, verb intransitive naw. To use the teeth in biting.

I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.

Gnawed

GNAW'ED, participle passive naw'ed. Bit; corroded.

Gnawer

GNAW'ER, noun naw'er. He or that which gnaws or corrodes.

Gnawing

GNAW'ING, participle present tense naw'ing. Biting off by little and little; corroding; eating by slow degrees.

Gneiss

GNE'ISS, noun ne'is. In mineralogy, a species of aggregated rock, composed of quartz, feldspar and mica, of a structure more or less distinctly slaty. The layers, whether straight or curved, are frequently thick, but often vary considerably in the same specimen. It passes on one side into granite, from which it differs in its slaty structure, and on the other into mica slate. It is rich in metalic ores.

Gnoff

GNOFF, noun nof. A miser. [Not in use.]

Gnome

GNOME, noun nome. An imaginary being, supposed by the cabalists, to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries. etc.

1. A brief reflection or maxim. [Not used.]

Gnomical

GNO'MICAL, adjective nomical. Sententious; containing maxims. [Little used.]

Gnomiometrical

GNOMIOMET'RICAL, adjective [Gr. an index, and to measure.]

The gnomiometrical telescope and microscope is an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by reflection, and for ascertaining the inclination of strata, and the apparaent magnitude of angles when the eye is not placed at the vertex.

Gnomologic

GNOMOLOG'IC

GNOMOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to gnomology.

Gnomological

GNOMOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to gnomology.

Gnomology

GNOMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a maxim or sentence, and discourse.]

A collection of maxims, grave sentences or reflections. [Little used.]

Gnomon

GNO'MON, noun no'mon. [Gr. an index, to know.]

1. In dialling, the style or pin, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day. It represents the axis of the earth.

2. In astronomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to find the altitude of the sun.

3. The gnomon of a globe, is the index of the hour-circle.

Gnomonic

GNOMON'IC

GNOMON'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the art of dialling.

Gnomonics

GNOMON'ICS, noun The art or science of dialling, or of constructing the dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

Gnostic

GNOS'TIC, noun nostic. [Latin gnosticus; Gr. to know.]

The Gnostics were a sect of philosophers that arose in the first ages of christianity, who pretended they were the only men who had a true knowledge of the christian religion. They formed for themselves a system of theology, agreeable to the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato, to which they accommodated their interpretations of scripture. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual and material, are derived by successive emanations from the infinite fountain of deity. These emanations they called oeons. These doctrines were derived from the oriental philosophy.

GNOS'TIC, adjective nostic. Pertaining to the Gnostics or their doctrines.

Gnosticism

GNOS'TICISM, noun nos'ticism. The doctrines, principles or systems of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

Gnu

GNU, noun A species of Antelope, in Southern Africa, whose form partakes of that of the horse, the ox, and the deer.

Go

GO, verb intransitive preterit tense went; participle passive gone.

1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting. A mill goes by water or by steam; a ship goes at the rate of five knots an hour; a clock goes fast or slow; a horse goes lame; a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.

The mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5.

2. To walk; to move on the feet or step by step. The child begins to go alone at a year old.

You know that love

Will creep in service where it cannot go

3. To walk leisurely; not to run.

Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.

4. To travel; to journey by land or water. I must go to Boston. He has gone to Philadelphia. The minister is going to France.

5. To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come. The mail goes and comes every day, or twice a week.

I will let you go that ye may sacrifice. Exodus 8:1.

6. To proceed; to pass.

And so the jest goes round.

7. To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.

8. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice. The child goes to school. A ship goes regularly to London. We go to church.

9. To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change. He goes from one opinion to another. His estate is going to ruin.

10. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate. We can go but a very little way in developing the causes of things.

11. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end. This sun will not go far towards full payment of the debt.

12. To apply; to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only; it goes to prove too much.

13. To apply one's self.

Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.

14. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.

15. To be about to do; as, I was going to say. I am going to begin harvest. [This use is chiefly confined to the participle.]

16. To pass; to be accounted in value. All this goes for nothing. This coin goes for a crown.

17. To circulate; to pass in report. The story goes.

18. To pass; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be.

And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 1 Samuel 17:32.

19. To move, or be in motion; as a machine. [See No.1.]

20. To move as fluid; to flow.

The god I am, whose yellow water flows

Around these fields, and fattens as it goes,

Tiber my name.

21. To have a tendency.

Against right reason all your counsels go

22. To be in compact or partnership.

They were to go equal shares in the booty.

23. To be guided or regulated; to proceed by some principle or rule. We are to go by the rules of law, or according to the precepts of scripture.

We are to go by another measure.

24. To be pregnant. The females of different animals go some a longer, some a shorter time.

25. To pass; to be alienated in payment or exchange. If our exports are of less value than our imports, our money must go to pay the balance.

26. To be loosed or released; to be freed from restraint. Let me go; let go the hand.

27. To be expended. His estate goes or has gone for spirituous liquors. [See No. 24.]

28. To extend; to reach. The line goes from one end to the other. His land goes to the bank of the Hudson.

29. to extend or lead in any direction. This road goes to Albany.

30. To proceed; to extend. This argument goes far towards proving the point. It goes a great way towards establishing the innocence of the accused.

31. To have effect; to extend in effect; to avail; to be of force or value. Money goes farther now than it did during the war.

32. To extend in meaning or purport.

His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow.

[In the three last examples, the sense of go depends on far, farther, further.]

33. To have a currency or use, as custom, opinion or manners.

I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.

34. To contribute; to conduce; to concur; to be an ingredient; with to or into. The substances which go into this composition. Many qualifications go to make up the well bred man.

35. To proceed; to be carried on. The business goes on well.

36. To proceed to final issue; to terminate; to succeed.

Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.

37. To proceed in a train, or in consequences.

How goes the night, boy?

38. To fare; to be in a good or ill state.

How goes it, comrade?

39. To have a tendency or effect; to operate.

These cases go to show that the court will vary the construction of instruments.

To go about, to set one's self to a business; to attempt; to endeavor.

They never go about to hide or palliate their vices.

1. In seamen's language, to tack; to turn the head of a ship.

To go abroad, to walk out of a house.

1. To be uttered, disclosed or published.

To go against, to invade; to march to attack.

1. To be in opposition; to be disagreeable.

To go aside, to withdraw; to retire into a private situation.

1. To err; to deviate from the right way.

To go astray, to wander; to break from an inclosure; also, to leave the right course; to depart from law or rule; to sin; to transgress.

To go away, to depart; to go to a distance.

To go between, to interpose; to mediate; to attempt to reconcile or to adjust differences.

To go by, to pass near and beyond.

1. To pass away unnoticed; to omit.

2. To fine or get in the conclusion.

In argument with men, a woman ever

GOes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

[A phrase now little used.]

To go down, to descend in any manner.

1. To fail; to come to nothing.

2. To be swallowed or received, not rejected. The doctrine of the divine right of kings will not go down in this period of the world.

To go forth to issue or depart out of a place.

To go forward, to advance.

To go hard with, to be in danger of a fatal issue; to have difficulty to escape.

To go in, to enter.

To go in to, to have sexual commerce with.

To go in and out, to do the business of life.

1. To go freely; to be at liberty. John 10:9.

To go off, to depart to a distance; to leave a place or station.

1. To die; to decease.

2. To be discharged, as fire arms; to explode.

To go on, to proceed; to advance forward.

1. To be put on, as a garment. The coat will not go on.

To go out, to issue forth; to depart from.

1. To go on an expedition.

2. To become extinct, as light or life; to expire. A candle goes out; fire goes out.

And life itself goes out at thy displeasure.

3. To become public. This story goes out to the world.

To go over, to read; to peruse; to study.

1. To examine; to view or review; as, to go over an account.

If we go over the laws of christianity--

2. To think over; to proceed or pass in mental operation.

3. To change sides; to pass from one party to another.

4. To revolt.

5. To pass from one side to the other, as of a river.

To go through, to pass in a substance; as, to go through water.

1. To execute; to accomplish; to perform thoroughly; to finish; as, to go through an undertaking.

2. To suffer; to bear; to undergo; to sustain to the end; as, to go through a long sickness; to go through an operation.

To go through with, to execute effectually.

To go under, to be talked of or known, as by a title or name; as, to go under the name of reformers.go up, to ascend; to rise.

To go upon, to proceed as on a foundation; to take as a principle supposed or settled; as, to go upon a supposition.

To go with, to accompany; to pass with others.

1. To side with; to be in party or design with.

To go ill with, to have ill fortune; not to prosper.

To go well with, to have good fortune; to prosper.

To go without, to be or remain destitute.

GO to, come, move, begin; a phrase of exhortation; also a phrase of scornful exhortation.

GO'-BETWEEN, noun [go and between.] An interposer; one who transacts business between parties.

GO'-BY, [go and by.] Evasion; escape by artifice.

1. A passing without notice; a thrusting away; a shifting off.

GO'-CART, noun [go and cart.] A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.

Goad

GOAD, noun A pointed instrument used to stimulate a beast to move faster.

GOAD, verb transitive To prick; to drive with a goad

1. To incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to urge forward, or to rouse by any thing pungent, severe, irritating or inflaming. He was goaded by sarcastic remarks or by abuse; goaded by desire or other passion.

Goaded

GOADED, participle passive Pricked; pushed on by a goad; instigated.

Goading

GOADING, participle present tense Pricking; driving with a goad; inciting; urging on; rousing.

Goal

GOAL, noun

1. The point set to bound a race, and to which they run; the mark.

Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal

With rapid wheels.

2. Any starting post.

3. The end or final purpose; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or accomplish.

Each individual seeks a several goal

Goar

GOAR, noun More usually gore, which see.

Goarish

GOARISH, adjective Patched; mean.

Goat

GOAT, noun An animal or quadruped of the genus Capra. The horns are hollow, turned upwards, erect and scabrous. Goats are nearly of the size of sheep, but stronger, less timid and more agile. They delight to frequent rocks and mountains, and subsist on scanty coarse food. The milk of the goat is sweet, nourishing and medicinal, and the flesh furnishes provisions to the inhabitants of countries where they abound.

Goat-Chaffer

GOAT-CHAFFER, noun An insect, a kind of beetle.

Goat-Milker

GOAT-MILKER, noun A kind or owl, so called from sucking goats.

Goat-Sucker

GOAT-SUCKER, noun In ornithology, a fowl of the genus Caprimulgus, so called from the opinion that it would suck goats. It is called also the fern-owl. In Bailey, it is called a goat-milker.

Goatfish

GOATFISH, noun A fish of the Mediterranean.

Goatherd

GOATHERD, noun One whose occupation is to tend goats.

Goatish

GOATISH, adjective Resembling a goat in any quality; of a rank smell.

1. Lustful.

Goats-Beard

GOAT'S-BEARD, noun In botany, a plant of the genus Tragopogon.

Goats-Rue

GOAT'S-RUE, noun A plant of the genus Galega.

Goats-Stones

GOAT'S-STONES, noun The greater goat's stones is the Satyrium; the lesser, the Orchis.

Goats-Thorn

GOAT'S-THORN, noun A plant of the genus Astragalus.

Goatskin

GOATSKIN, noun The skin of a goat.

Gob

GOB, noun [Heb. a hill, a boss.] A little mass or collection; a mouthful. [A low word.]

Gobbet

GOB'BET, noun A mouthful; a lump.

GOB'BET, verb transitive To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls. [A low word.]

Gobble

GOB'BLE, verb transitive To swallow in large pieces; to swallow hastily.

GOB'BLE, verb intransitive To make a noise in the throat, as a turkey.

Gobbler

GOB'BLER, noun One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer.

1. A name sometimes given to the turkey cock.

Goblet

GOB'LET, noun A kind of cup or drinking vessel without a handle.

We love not loaded boards, and goblets crown'd.

Goblin

GOB'LIN, noun

1. An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom.

To whom the goblin full of wrath, replied.

2. A fairy; an elf.

God

GOD, noun

1. The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator, and the sovereign of the universe.

GOD is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24.

2. A false god; a heathen deity; an idol.

Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges 6:10.

3. A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

Exodus 22:28. Psalms 97:7.

[Gods here is a bad translation.]

4. Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good.

Whose god is their belly. Philippians 3:19.

GOD, verb transitive To deify. [Not used.]

Godchild

GOD'CHILD, noun [god and child.] One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and promises to see educated as a christian.

Goddaughter

GOD'DAUGHTER, noun [god and daughter.] A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism. [See Godfather.]

Goddess

GOD'DESS, noun A female deity; a heathen deity of the female sex.

When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.

1. In the language of love, a woman of superior charms or excellence.

Goddesslike

GOD'DESSLIKE, adjective Resembling a goddess.

Godfather

GOD'F'ATHER, noun The man who is sponsor for a child at baptism, who promises to answer for his future conduct and that he shall follow a life of piety, by this means laying himself under an indispensable obligation to instruct the child and watch over his conduct. This practice is of high antiquity in the christian church, and was probably intended to prevent children from being brought up in idolatry, in case the parents died before the children had arrived to years of discretion. In the catholic church the number of godfathers and godmothers is reduced to two; in the church of England, to three; but formerly the number was not limited.

GOD'F'ATHER, verb transitive To act as godfather; to take under one's fostering care.

Godhead

GOD'HEAD, noun god'hed.

1. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; applied to the true God, and to heathen deities.

2. A deity in person; a god or goddess.

Godless

GOD'LESS, adjective Having no reverence for God; impious; ungodly; irreligious; wicked.

1. Atheistical; having no belief in the existence of God.

Godlessness

GOD'LESSNESS, noun The state of being impious or irreligious.

Godlike

GOD'LIKE, adjective Resembling God; divine.

1. Resembling a deity, or heathen divinity.

2. Of superior excellence; as godlike virtue; a godlike prince.

Godlily

GOD'LILY, adverb Piously; righteously.

Godliness

GOD'LINESS, noun [from godly.] Piety; belief in God, and reverence for his character and laws.

1. A religious life; a careful observance of the laws of God and performance of religious duties, proceeding from love and reverence for the divine character and commands; christian obedience.

Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Timothy 4:7.

2. Revelation; the system of christianity.

Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness;

God was manifest in the flesh. l Tim.3.

Godling

GOD'LING, noun A little deity; a diminutive god; as a puny godling

Godly

GOD'LY, adjective [god-like] Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws.

1. Living in obedience to God's commands, from a principle of love to him and reverence of his character and precepts; religious; righteous; as a godly person.

2. Pious; conformed to God's law; as a godly life.

GOD'LY, adverb Piously; righteously.

All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer

persecution. 2 Timothy 3:12.

Godlyhead

GOD'LYHEAD, noun Goodness.

Godmother

GOD'MOTHER, noun [god and mother.] A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism.

Gods-Penny

GOD'S-PENNY, noun An earnest-penny.

Godship

GOD'SHIP, noun Deity; divinity; the rank or character of a god.

O'er hills and dales their godships came.

Godsmith

GOD'SMITH, noun A maker of idols.

Godson

GOD'SON, noun One for whom another has been sponsor at the font.

Godward

GOD'WARD. Toward God. [An ill-formed word.]

Godwit

GOD'WIT, noun A fowl of the grallic order and genus Scolopax. It has a bill four inches long; the feathers on the head, neck and back are of a light reddish brown; those on the belly white, and the tail is regularly barred with black and white. This fowl frequents fens and the banks of rivers, and its flesh is esteemed a great delicacy.

Godyeld

GOD'YELD

GOD'YIELD, adverb [Supposed to be contracted from good or god, and shield.] A term of thanks.

Godyield

GOD'YIELD, adv. [Supposed to be contracted from good or god, and shield.] A term of thanks.

Goel

GO'EL, adjective Yellow.