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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Glū'ti-nā'tion, n. p. 575The act of uniting with glue.Glū'ti-na-tīve, a. p. 575Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.Glū'tine, n. p. 575(Chem.) A white substance, resembling albumen, precipitated from an alcoholic solution of gluten, by the addition of water.Glū'ti-nōs'i-ty, n. p. 576The quality of being glutinous; viscousness. [Rare.]Glū'ti-noŭs, a. p. 576Having the quality of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; tenacious. 2. (Bot.) Besmeared with a slippery moisture; as, a glutinous leaf. Martyn.Glū'ti-noŭs-ness, n. p. 576The quality of glue; tenacity; viscosity; viscidity. Cheyne.Glŭt'ton, n. p. 576One who eats voraciously, or to excess; one who stuffs or gluts himself with food; a gormandizer; hence, one who satisfies to excess any low or depraved appetite. 2. One eager of any thing to excess.…Glāt'ton, a. p. 576Of, or pertaining to, a glutton; gluttonous. “Glutton souls.” Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.Glūt'ton, v. i. p. 576To eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to gluttonize. [Obs.] Whereon in Egypt gluttonize they fed. Drayton.Glŭt'ton-ish, a. p. 576Gluttonous; greedy. Sidney.Glŭt'ton-īze, v. i. p. 576To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to gormandize. [Rare.] Halliwell.Glŭt'ton-oŭs, a. p. 576Belonging to a glutton or to gluttony; given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite; as, a gluttonous age.Glŭt'ton-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 576In a gluttonous manner.Glŭt'ton-y, n. p. 576The act or practice of a glutton; excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts. Milton.Glyc'er-ine, n. p. 576(Chem.) A sweet viscid liquid, formed during the saponification of fatty substances, consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Gregory.Gly'col, n. p. 576(Chem.) An inodorous, sweetish liquid, soluble in water and in alcohol, and unaltered in air. It is the type of a newly discovered class of compounds, intermediate, in their chemical relations…Gly-cō'ni-an, a. & n. p. 576The same as GLYCONIC.Gly-cōn'ie, n. p. 576(Pros.) A kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of three feet, a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic.Gly-cōn'ic, a. p. 576(Pros.) Consisting of three feet; namely, a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; as, a glyconic verse.Glyc'yr-rhī'zā, n. p. 576(Bot.) A genus of dicotyledonous, herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra) is the liquorice plant, the roots of which abound in a saccharine mucilaginous matter.Gly-cy̆r'rhi-zine, n. p. 576(Chem.) A substance resembling both sugar and gum, obtained from the root of the Glycyrrhiza glabra, or common licorice. Gregory.Glyn, n. p. 576See GLEN.Glyph, n. p. 576(Arch.) A sunken channel, usually vertical. Gwilt.Glyph̆'ie, n. p. 576A picture or figure by which a word is implied; a hieroglyphie. See HIEROGLYPHIC. [Rare.]Glyph'o-grāph, n. p. 576A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.Glyph'o-grāph'ie, a. p. 576Of, or belonging to, glyphography.Gly-phōg'ra-phy, n. p. 576A process of etching by means of voltaic electricity, by which a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used as a block to print from, as in common typography. Eng. Cyc.Glyp'tic, a. p. 576(Min.) Figured.Glyp'tic or Glyp'tics, n. sing. p. 576The art of engraving figures on precious stones. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.]Glyp'to-dōn, n. p. 576(Paleon.) An extinct quadruped of the armadillo family, of the size of an ox, covered with tessellated scales, and having fluted teeth. Its remains are found in South America. Glyptodon (Glyptodon…Glyp'to-grāph'ic, a. p. 576Describing or relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones.Glyp-tŏg'ra-phy, n. p. 576A description of the art of engraving on precious stones.Glyp'to-thē'ca, n. p. 576A building or room for the preservation of works of sculpture.Gly'ster, n. p. 576The same as CLYSTER.Gna-pha'li-um, n. p. 576(Bot.) A genus of plants, the species of which are very numerous; everlasting.Gnār, v. i. p. 576To gnarl; to snarl. [Obs. or rare.] The gnarring porter durst not whine for doubt. Fairfax. A thousand wants Gnar at the heels of men. Tennyson.Gnärl (nä rl), v. i. p. 576To growl; to murmur; to snarl. And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. Shak.Gnärl, n. p. 576A knot in wood.Gnār'led, a. p. 576Knotty; full of knots. “The unwedgeable and gnarled oak.” Shak.Gnärl'y, a. p. 576Full of knots; knotty; twisted; cross-grained.Gnärr, n. p. 576A knot in wood. [Obs.] Chaucer.Gnăsh, v. t. p. 576To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.Gnăsh, v. i. p. 576To grind or strike together the teeth. There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. Milton.Gnăsh'ing-ly, adv. p. 576With gnashing.Gnăt, n. p. 576(Entom.) A delicate blood-sucking fly of the genus Culex, having a long proboscis, and undergoing a metamorphosis in the water. The females have the proboscis armed with lancet-like stings, and are…Gnāt'-flow'er, n. p. 576A kind of flower, called also bee-flower. Johnson.Gna-thōn'ic or Gna-thōn'ic-al, a. p. 576Flattering; deceitful. [Obs.]Gnāt'-snāp/per, n. p. 576A bird that catches gnats for its food. Hakewill.Gnāt'-worm, n. p. 576(Entom.) A small water-insect, which, after its several changes, is transformed into a gnat; the larvæ of a gnat.Gnaw, v. t. p. 576To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear away by scraping with the teeth; to nibble at. They gnawed their…Gnaw, v. i. p. 576To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable. I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that…Gnaw'er, n. p. 576One who, or that which, gnaws or corrodes.Gneiss, n. p. 576(Geol.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse…Gneis'soid, a. p. 576Having some of the characteristics of gneiss;—applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica-slate and gneiss.Gneis'sōse, a. p. 576Having the general structure of gneiss. Lyell.Gnōff, n. p. 576A miser. [Obs.] Chaucer.Gnōme, n. p. 576An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, &c. 2. A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen…Gnōm'ic or Gnōm'ic-al, a. p. 576Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. [Obs.] 2. [See GNOMON.] Gnomonical. Boyle.Gnō'mo-lōg'ic or Gnō'mo-lōg'ic-al, a. p. 576Pertaining to, or resembling, a gnomology.Gno-mōl'o-gy, n. p. 576A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.