English Dictionary: Gelsemium sempervirens | by the DICT Development Group |
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Loblolly \Lob"lol`ly\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. {Loblolly bay} (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus {Gordonia} ({G. Lasianthus}), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree ({Laplacea h[91]matoxylon}). {Loblolly boy}, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. --Smollett. {Loblolly pine} (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine ({Pinus T[91]da}). Also, {P. Bahamensis}, of the West Indies. {Loblolly tree} (Bot.), a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as {Pisonia subcordata}, {Cordia alba}, and {Cupania glabra}. | |
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d8Maholi \[d8]Ma*ho"li\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A South African lemur ({Galago maholi}), having very large ears. [Written also {moholi}.] | |
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2. (Naut.) (a) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping. (b) Same as 2d {Mousing}, 2. 3. A familiar term of endearment. --Shak. 4. A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang] 5. A match used in firing guns or blasting. {Field mouse}, {Flying mouse}, etc. See under {Field}, {Flying}, etc. {Mouse bird} (Zo[94]l.), a coly. {Mouse deer} (Zo[94]l.), a chevrotain, as the kanchil. {Mouse galago} (Zo[94]l.), a very small West American galago ({Galago murinus}). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel. {Mouse hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A hawk that devours mice. (b) The hawk owl; -- called also {mouse owl}. {Mouse lemur} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus {Chirogaleus}, found in Madagascar. {Mouse piece} (Cookery), the piece of beef cut from the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; -- called also {mouse buttock}. | |
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Galician \Ga*li"cian\, a. [Cf. Sp. Galiciano, Gallego, fr. L. Gallaecus, Gallaicus, fr. Gallaeci a people in Western Spain.] Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. -- n. A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also {Gallegan}. | |
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Galician \Ga*li"cian\, a. [Cf. Sp. Galiciano, Gallego, fr. L. Gallaecus, Gallaicus, fr. Gallaeci a people in Western Spain.] Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. -- n. A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also {Gallegan}. | |
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Gallegan \Gal*le"gan\ (g[acr]l*l[emac]"g[ait]n), Gallego \Gal*le"go\ (g[acr]l*l[emac]"g[osl] or g[adot]*ly[amac]"g[osl]), n. [Sp. Gallego.] A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician. | |
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Gallican \Gal"li*can\, a. [L. Gallicanus: cf. F. gallican.] Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy. | |
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Gallican \Gal"li*can\, n. An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. --Shipley. | |
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Gallicanism \Gal"li*can*ism\, n. The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc. | |
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Gallize \Gal"lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gallized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gallizing}.] [After Dr. L. Gall, a French chemist, who invented the process.] In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced. -- {Gal`li*za"tion}, n. | |
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Galsome \Gal"some\, a. [Gall bitterness + some.] Angry; malignant. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton. | |
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Gelsemine \Gel"se*mine\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens}), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also {gelsemia}. | |
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Gelsemic \Gel*se"mic\, a. Gelseminic. | |
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Gelsemine \Gel"se*mine\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens}), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also {gelsemia}. | |
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Gelseminic \Gel`se*min"ic\, n. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens}); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin. | |
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Jasmine \Jas"mine\, n. [F. jasmin, Sp. jazmin, Ar. y[be]sm[c6]n, Pers. y[be]sm[c6]n; cf. It. gesmino, gelsomino. Cf. {Jessamine}.] (Bot.) A shrubby plant of the genus {Jasminum}, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The {J. officinale}, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is {J. Sambac}, and, with {J. angustifolia}, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the {Gelseminum sempervirens} (see {Gelsemium}). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of {Calotropis} and {Faramea}. [Written also {jessamine}.] {Cape jasmine}, or {Cape jessamine}, the {Gardenia florida}, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States. | |
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Gelseminic \Gel`se*min"ic\, n. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens}); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin. | |
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d8Gelsemium \[d8]Gel*se"mium\, n. [NL., fr. It. gelsomino jasmine.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens}) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers. 2. (Med.) The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc. | |
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Gelsemine \Gel"se*mine\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine ({Gelsemium sempervirens}), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also {gelsemia}. | |
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Geologer \Ge*ol"o*ger\, Geologian \Ge`o*lo"gi*an\, n. A geologist. | |
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Glass maker \Glass" mak`er\, [or] Glassmaker \Glass"mak`er\, n. One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- {Glass" mak`ing}, [or] {Glass"mak`ing}, n. | |
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Glass maker \Glass" mak`er\, [or] Glassmaker \Glass"mak`er\, n. One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- {Glass" mak`ing}, [or] {Glass"mak`ing}, n. | |
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Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.] 1. 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. Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow. 2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: (a) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b) 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. She would not live The running of one glass. --Shak. (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. (e) A weatherglass; a barometer. Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc. {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian}, {Cut}, etc. {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing. {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in the Vocabulary. {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened. {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide. {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion glass. {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube. {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers. {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart. Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F. Cooper. {Glass cutter}. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass. {Glass cutting}. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved. {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass. {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like. {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes. {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders. {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam. {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass. {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting. {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}. {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made. {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash. {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}. {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows. {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot. {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}. {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid. {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, {Bastie glass}. {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above. {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows. | |
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Glassen \Glass"en\, a. Glassy; glazed. [Obs.] And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. --B. Jonson. | |
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Glassiness \Glass"i*ness\, n. The quality of being glassy. | |
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Glass \Glass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glassed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glassing}.] 1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. --Motley. Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. --Byron. 2. To case in glass. [R.] --Shak. 3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. --Boyle. 4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. | |
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Glass maker \Glass" mak`er\, [or] Glassmaker \Glass"mak`er\, n. One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- {Glass" mak`ing}, [or] {Glass"mak`ing}, n. | |
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Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.] 1. 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. Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow. 2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: (a) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b) 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. She would not live The running of one glass. --Shak. (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. (e) A weatherglass; a barometer. Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc. {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian}, {Cut}, etc. {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing. {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in the Vocabulary. {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened. {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide. {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion glass. {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube. {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers. {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart. Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F. Cooper. {Glass cutter}. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass. {Glass cutting}. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved. {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass. {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like. {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes. {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders. {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam. {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass. {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting. {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}. {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made. {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash. {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}. {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows. {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot. {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}. {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid. {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, {Bastie glass}. {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above. {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows. | |
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Glass maker \Glass" mak`er\, [or] Glassmaker \Glass"mak`er\, n. One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- {Glass" mak`ing}, [or] {Glass"mak`ing}, n. | |
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Glass-snail \Glass"-snail`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus {Vitrina}. | |
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Glass-snake \Glass"-snake`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 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. | |
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Glasynge \Glas"ynge\, n. Glazing or glass. [Obs.] | |
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Glaucine \Glau"cine\, a. Glaucous or glaucescent. | |
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Glaucine \Glau"cine\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. | |
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Golden-eye \Gold"en-eye`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A duck ({Glaucionetta clangula}), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called {whistler}, {garrot}, {gowdy}, {pied widgeon}, {whiteside}, {curre}, and {doucker}. Barrow's golden-eye of America ({G. Islandica}) is less common. | |
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Horn \Horn\, n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha[a3]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. [?], and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [87]iras head. Cf. {Carat}, {Corn} on the foot, {Cornea}, {Corner}, {Cornet}, {Cornucopia}, {Hart}.] 1. A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed. 2. The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout. 4. (Bot.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ({Asclepias}). 5. Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn; as: (a) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. [bd]Wind his horn under the castle wall.[b8] --Spenser. See {French horn}, under {French}. (b) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. [bd]Horns of mead and ale.[b8] --Mason. (c) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See {Cornucopia}. [bd]Fruits and flowers from Amalth[91]a's horn.[b8] --Milton. (d) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. [bd]Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David].[b8] --1 Sam. xvi. 13. (e) The pointed beak of an anvil. (f) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. (g) (Arch.) The Ionic volute. (h) (Naut.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. (i) (Carp.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. (j) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. [bd]Joab . . . caught hold on the horns of the altar.[b8] --1 Kings ii. 28. 6. One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped. The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. --Thomson. 7. (Mil.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form. Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx. --Milton. 8. The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn. 9. (Script.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride. The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation. --Ps. xviii. 2. 10. An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. [bd]Thicker than a cuckold's horn.[b8] --Shak. {Horn block}, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called {horn plate}. {Horn of a dilemma}. See under {Dilemma}. {Horn distemper}, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn. {Horn drum}, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. {Horn lead} (Chem.), chloride of lead. {Horn maker}, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] --Shak. {Horn mercury}. (Min.) Same as {Horn quicksilver} (below). {Horn poppy} (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy ({Glaucium luteum}), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also {horned poppy}. --Gray. {Horn pox} (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. {Horn quicksilver} (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. {Horn shell} (Zo[94]l.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus {Cerithium}, and allied genera. {Horn silver} (Min.), cerargyrite. {Horn slate}, a gray, siliceous stone. {To haul in one's horns}, to withdraw some arrogant pretension. [Colloq.] | |
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Glaucomatous \Glau*co"ma*tous\, a. Having the nature of glaucoma. | |
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Glaucometer \Glau*com"e*ter\, n. See {Gleucometer}. | |
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Glauconite \Glau"co*nite\, n. [Cf. F. glauconite, glauconie, fr. L. glaucus. See {Glaucous}.] (Min.) The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See {Greensand}. | |
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Sea milkwort \Sea" milk"wort`\ (Bot.) A low, fleshy perennial herb ({Glaux maritima}) found along northern seashores. | |
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Glazen \Glaz"en\, a. [AS. gl[91]sen.] Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Glazing \Glaz"ing\, n. 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. 2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. 3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. 4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. | |
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Glase \Glase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glazing}.] [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See {Glass}.] 1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. --Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. --Shak. 3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect. | |
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Gleesome \Glee"some\, a. Merry; joyous; gleeful. | |
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Gleucometer \Gleu*com"e*ter\, n. [Gr. [?] must + -meter: cf. F. gleucom[8a]tre.] An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must. | |
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Glissando \Glis*san"do\, n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding. | |
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Capsule \Cap"sule\, n. [L. capsula a little box or chest, fr. capsa chest, case, fr. capere to take, contain: cf. F. capsule.] 1. (Bot.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. 2. (Chem.) (a) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier. (b) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain. 3. (Med.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed. 4. (Anat.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ. 5. A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle. 6. A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. {Atrabiliary capsule}. See under {Atrabiliary}. {Glisson's capsule}, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. {Suprarenal capsule}, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney. | |
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Glockenspiel \Glock"en*spiel`\, n. [G.; glocke bell + spiel play.] (Music) An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon. | |
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Glossanthrax \Glos*san"thrax\, n. [Gr. [?] tongue + E. anthrax: cf. F. glossanthrax.] A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue. | |
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Tsetse \Tset"se\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A venomous two-winged African fly ({Glossina morsitans}) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year. [Written also {tzetze}, and {tsetze}.] | |
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Glossiness \Gloss"i*ness\, n. [From {Glossy}.] The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. --Boyle. | |
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Gloss \Gloss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glossed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glossing}.] To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. --J. R. Drake. | |
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Gloze \Gloze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glozed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glozing}.] [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See {gloss} explanation.] 1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. --Chaucer. A false, glozing parasite. --South. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. --Milton. 2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. --Shak. | |
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Glucina \Glu*ci"na\, n. [Cf. F. glycine, glucine. So called because it forms sweet salts. See {Glucinum}.] (Chem.) A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine. | |
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Glucinic \Glu*cin"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide. | |
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Glucinum \Glu*ci"num\, n. [Cf. F. glucinium, glycium, fr. Gr. [?], sweet. Cf. {Glycerin}.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also {beryllium}. [Formerly written also {glucinium}.] | |
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Glucinum \Glu*ci"num\, n. [Cf. F. glucinium, glycium, fr. Gr. [?], sweet. Cf. {Glycerin}.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also {beryllium}. [Formerly written also {glucinium}.] | |
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Maltonic \Mal*ton"ic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also {gluconic} or {dextronic} acid. See {Gluconic}. | |
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Gluconic \Glu*con"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose. {Gluconic acid} (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also {maltonic acid}, and {dextronic acid}. | |
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Maltonic \Mal*ton"ic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also {gluconic} or {dextronic} acid. See {Gluconic}. | |
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Gluconic \Glu*con"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose. {Gluconic acid} (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also {maltonic acid}, and {dextronic acid}. | |
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Gluconic \Glu*con"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose. {Gluconic acid} (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also {maltonic acid}, and {dextronic acid}. | |
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Geoduck \Ge"o*duck\, n. [American Indian name.] (Zo[94]l.) A gigantic clam ({Glycimeris generosa}) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food. | |
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Glycocoll \Gly"co*coll\, n. [Gr. glyky`s sweet + ko`lla glue.] (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also {glycin}, and {glycocin}. | |
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Glycin \Gly"cin\, n. [Gr. glyky`s sweet.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as {Glycocoll}. | |
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Glycocoll \Gly"co*coll\, n. [Gr. glyky`s sweet + ko`lla glue.] (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also {glycin}, and {glycocin}. | |
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Glycin \Gly"cin\, n. [Gr. glyky`s sweet.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as {Glycocoll}. | |
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Soja \So"ja\ (s[omac]"j[adot] [or] s[omac]"y[adot]), n. (Bot.) An Asiatic leguminous herb ({Glycine Soja}) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy. | |
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Glyconian \Gly*co"ni*an\, a. & n. Glyconic. | |
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Glyconic \Gly*con"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] a kind of verse, so called from its inventor, Glycon.] (Pros.) Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n. (Pros.) A glyconic verse. | |
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Glyconin \Gly"co*nin\, n. An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc. | |
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Glyoxime \Gly*ox"ime\, n. [Glyoxal + oxime.] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See {Oxime}. | |
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Gullish \Gull"ish\, a. Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] {Gull"ish*ness}, n. [Obs.] | |
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