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   gallamine
         n 1: neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as
               a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia [syn:
               {gallamine}, {Flaxedil}]

English Dictionary: gloaming by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gell-Mann
n
  1. United States physicist noted for his studies of subatomic particles (born in 1929)
    Synonym(s): Gell-Mann, Murray Gell- Mann
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gila monster
n
  1. large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested
    Synonym(s): Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gilman
n
  1. United States feminist (1860-1935) [syn: Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gleaming
adj
  1. bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
    Synonym(s): agleam, gleaming, nitid
n
  1. a flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: gleam, gleaming, glimmer]
  2. an appearance of reflected light
    Synonym(s): gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
n
  1. United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
    Synonym(s): Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Hammond Curtiss
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gloaming
n
  1. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
    Synonym(s): twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gloominess
n
  1. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
    Synonym(s): gloom, gloominess, glumness
  2. a feeling of melancholy apprehension
    Synonym(s): gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness
  3. the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
    Synonym(s): gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glooming
adj
  1. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
    Synonym(s): glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallomania \Gal`lo*ma"ni*a\, n. [L. Galli Gauls + mania
      madness.]
      An excessive admiration of what is French. --
      {Gal`lo*ma"ni*ac}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallomania \Gal`lo*ma"ni*a\, n. [L. Galli Gauls + mania
      madness.]
      An excessive admiration of what is French. --
      {Gal`lo*ma"ni*ac}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gila monster \Gi"la mon"ster\ (Zo[94]l.)
      A large tuberculated lizard ({Heloderma suspectum}) native of
      the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only
      lizard known to have venomous teeth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Gleaming}.]
      1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn,
            light gleams in the east.
  
      2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
  
      Syn: To {Gleam}, {Glimmer}, {Glitter}.
  
      Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of
                  light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady
                  giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that
                  is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon
                  the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist;
                  a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See {Flash}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gleaning \Glean"ing\, n.
      The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected
      by gleaning.
  
               Glenings of natural knowledge.               --Cook.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glean \Glean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleaned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Gleaning}.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr.
      LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh[?]u to clean, purify,
      or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand[?]ul.]
      1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or
            fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or
            grapes left after the gathering.
  
                     To glean the broken ears after the man That the main
                     harvest reaps.                                    --Shak.
  
      2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
  
      3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
            obtain.
  
                     Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
                                                                              --Locke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gleeman \Glee"man\, n.; pl. {Gleemen}. [Glee + man; AS.
      gle[a2]man.]
      A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gleeman \Glee"man\, n.; pl. {Gleemen}. [Glee + man; AS.
      gle[a2]man.]
      A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gloaming \Gloam"ing\, n. [See {Gloom}.]
      1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of
            Eng., and in poetry.] --Hogg.
  
      2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] --J. Still.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nitroglycerin \Ni`tro*glyc"er*in\, n. [Nitro- + glycerinn.]
      (Chem.)
      A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish,
      and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of
      nitric acid, and hence more properly called {glycerin
      nitrate}. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin
      in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable
      and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in
      medicine as a neurotic under the name of {glonion}. [Written
      also {nitroglycerine}.]
  
      Note: A great number of explosive compounds have been
               produced by mixing nitroglycerin with different
               substances; as, dynamite, or giant powder,
               nitroglycerin mixed with siliceous earth;
               lithofracteur, nitroglycerin with gunpowder, or with
               sawdust and nitrate of sodium or barium; Colonia
               powder, gunpowder with nitroglycerin; dualin,
               nitroglycerin with sawdust, or with sawdust and nitrate
               of potassium and some other substances; lignose, wood
               fiber and nitroglycerin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glonoin \Glon"o*in\ Glonoine \Glon"o*ine\, n. [Glycerin + oxygen
      + nitrogen + -in, -ine.]
      1. Same as {Nitroglycerin}; -- called also {oil of glonoin}.
            [Obs.]
  
      2. (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a
            neurotic.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glonoin \Glon"o*in\ Glonoine \Glon"o*ine\, n. [Glycerin + oxygen
      + nitrogen + -in, -ine.]
      1. Same as {Nitroglycerin}; -- called also {oil of glonoin}.
            [Obs.]
  
      2. (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a
            neurotic.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gloominess \Gloom"i*ness\, n.
      State of being gloomy. --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. {Gloaming}.]
      Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
  
               When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into
               day.                                                      --Trench.
  
               The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.            --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Glooming}.]
      1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
  
      2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
            sad; to come to the evening twilight.
  
                     The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
  
                     [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
                                                                              --Spenser.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gilman, CT
      Zip code(s): 06336
   Gilman, IA (city, FIPS 30900)
      Location: 41.87861 N, 92.78783 W
      Population (1990): 586 (248 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 50106
   Gilman, IL (city, FIPS 29275)
      Location: 40.76594 N, 87.99613 W
      Population (1990): 1816 (781 housing units)
      Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 60938
   Gilman, MN (city, FIPS 23804)
      Location: 45.73526 N, 93.95012 W
      Population (1990): 192 (75 housing units)
      Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56333
   Gilman, VT
      Zip code(s): 05904
   Gilman, WI (village, FIPS 29175)
      Location: 45.16692 N, 90.80688 W
      Population (1990): 412 (189 housing units)
      Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 54433

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gilman City, MO (city, FIPS 27064)
      Location: 40.13833 N, 93.87237 W
      Population (1990): 393 (201 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 64642

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gilman Hot Sprin, CA
      Zip code(s): 92583

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gilmanton, NH
      Zip code(s): 03237

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gilmanton Iron W, NH
      Zip code(s): 03837

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenham, SD (town, FIPS 24620)
      Location: 45.53332 N, 100.27033 W
      Population (1990): 134 (58 housing units)
      Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57631

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenmont, NY
      Zip code(s): 12077
   Glenmont, OH (village, FIPS 30506)
      Location: 40.51705 N, 82.09274 W
      Population (1990): 233 (107 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 44628

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenoma, WA
      Zip code(s): 98336
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