Glaive (n.) A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
Glaive (n.) A sword; -- used poetically and loosely.
Glama (n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
Glamour (n.) A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
Glamour (n.) Witchcraft; magic; a spell.
Glamour (n.) A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Glamour (n.) Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
Glamourie (n.) Glamour.
Glance (n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Glance (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
Glance (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
Glance (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
Glanced (imp. & p. p.) of Glance
Glancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glance
Glance (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
Glance (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
Glance (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
Glance (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Glance (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
Glance (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
Glance (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
Glancing (a.) Shooting, as light.
Glancing (a.) Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
Glancingly (adv.) In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
Gland (n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
Gland (n.) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
Gland (n.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
Gland (n.) Any very small prominence.
Gland (n.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.
Gland (n.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
Glandage (n.) A feeding on nuts or mast.
Glandered (a.) Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse.
Glanderous (a.) Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders.
Glanders (n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
Glandiferous (a.) Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
Glandiform (a.) Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
Glandular (a.) Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
Glandulation (n.) The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
Glandule (n.) A small gland or secreting vessel.
Glanduliferous (a.) Bearing glandules.
Glandulose (a.) Same as Glandulous.
Glandulosity (n.) Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands.
Glandulous (a.) Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
Glandes (pl. ) of Glans
Glans (n.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
Glans (n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
Glans (n.) Goiter.
Glans (n.) A pessary.
Glared (imp. & p. p.) of Glare
Glaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glare
Glare (v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
Glare (v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
Glare (v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
Glare (v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Glare (n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
Glare (n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.
Glare (n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
Glare (n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
Glare (n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
Glareous (a.) Glairy.
Glariness (n.) Alt. of Glaringness
Glaringness (n.) A dazzling luster or brilliancy.
Glaring (a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.
Glary (a.) Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.
Glass (v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
Glass (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
Glass (v. t.) Anything made of glass.
Glass (v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.
Glass (v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
Glass (v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
Glass (v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
Glass (v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.
Glassed (imp. & p. p.) of Glass
Glassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glass
Glass (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
Glass (v. t.) To case in glass.
Glass (v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
Glass (v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
Glass-crab (n.) The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
Glassen (a.) Glassy; glazed.
Glasseye (n.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
Glasseye (n.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.
Glass-faced (a.) Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
Glassfuls (pl. ) of Glassful
Glassful (n.) The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.
Glassful (a.) Glassy; shining like glass.
Glass-gazing (a.) Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.
Glasshouse (n.) A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
Glassily (adv.) So as to resemble glass.
Glassiness (n.) The quality of being glassy.
Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.
Glass maker (n.) Alt. of Glassmaker
Glassmaker (n.) One who makes, or manufactures, glass.
Glass-rope (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
Glass-snail (n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.
Glass-sponge (n.) A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
Glassware (n.) Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
Glasswork (n.) Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
Glasswort (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.