Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLAD'WIN, n.

A plant of the genus Iris. Fam. of Plants.

GLAIR, n. [Fr. glaire. In Sax. glære is amber, or any thing transparent. This coincides with W. eglur, Eng. clear, L. clarus, and with Eng. glare, and L. gloria; perhaps with L. glarea, gravel, or pieces of quartz.]

1. The white of an egg. It is used as a varnish for preserving paintings. Encyc.
2. Any viscous transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
3. A kind of halberd. Dict.

GLAIR, v.t.

To smear with the white of an egg; to varnish.

GLAIR'ED, pp.

Smeared with the white of an egg.

GLAIR'Y, a.

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities. Fleming.

GLANCE, n. [G. glanz, a ray, a beam or shoot of light, splendor; D. glans; Dan. glands; Sw. glans. The primary sense is to shoot, to throw, to dart.]

1. A sudden shoot of light or splendor. Milton.
2. A shoot or darting of sight; a rapid or momentary view or cast; a snatch of sight; as, a sudden glance; a glance of the eye. Dryden. Watts.

GLANCE, v.i.

1. To shoot or dart a ray of light or splendor. When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly. Rowe.
2. To fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. The arrow struck the shield and glanced. So we say, a glancing ball or shot.
3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. Then sit again, and sigh and glance. Suckling.
4. To hint; to cast a word or reflection; as, to glance at a different subject.
5. To censure by oblique hints. Shak.

GLANCE, v.t.

To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. Shak.

GLANCE'COAL, n.

Anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. [See Anthracite.] Cyc.

GLAN'CED, pp.

Shot, or darted suddenly.

GLAN'CING, ppr.

Shooting; darting; casting suddenly; flying off obliquely.

GLAN'CING-LY, adv.

By glancing; in a glancing manner; transiently. Hakewill.

GLAND, n. [L. glans, a nut; glandula, a gland; Fr. glande. Qu. Gr. βαλανος, with a different prefix.]

1. In anatomy, a distinct soft body, formed by the convolution of a great number of vessels, either constituting a part of the lymphatic system, or destined to secrete some fluid from the blood. Glands have been divided into conglobate and conglomerate, from their structure; but a more proper division is into lymphatic and secretory. The former are found in the course of the lymphatic vessels, and are conglobate. The latter are of various structure. They include the mucous follicles, the conglomerate glands, properly so called, such as the parotid glands and the pancreas, the liver, kidneys, &c. The term has also been applied to other bodies of a similar appearance, neither lymphatic nor secretory; such as the thymus and thyroid glands, whose use is not certainly known, certain portions of the brain, as the pineal and pituitary glands, &c. [See Conglobate and Conglomerate.] Encyc. Parr. Coxe.
2. In botany, a gland or glandule is an excretory or secretory duct or vessel in a plant. Glands are found on the leaves, petioles, peduncles and stipules. Martyn.

GLAND'ER-ED, n.

Affected with glanders. Berkley.

GLAND'ERS, n. [from gland.]

In farriery, a disease of the mucous membrane of the nostrils of horses, in its progress attended with an increased and vitiated secretion.

GLAN-DIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. glandifer; glans, an acorn, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast. The beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.

GLAND'I-FORM, a. [L. glans and forma, form.]

In the shape of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.

GLAND'U-LAR, a.

Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.

GLAND-U-LA'TION, n.

In botany, the situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Martyn. Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles. Lee.

GLAND'ULE, n. [L. glandula.]

A small gland or secreting vessel.

GLAND-U-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. glandula and fero, to bear.]

Bearing glands. Lee.

GLAND-U-LOS'I-TY, n.

A collection of glands. [Little used.] Brown.

GLAND'U-LOUS, a. [L. glandulosus.]

Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.

GLANS, n. [See Gland.]

The nut of the penis; an acorn, a pessary, a strumous swelling. Coxe.

GLARE, n. [Dan. glar, Ice. gler, glass. It coincides with clear, glory, glair, – which see.]

1. A bright dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or splendor, that dazzles the eyes. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.
2. A fierce, piercing look. About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.
3. A viscous transparent substance. [See Glair.]