Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLASS-WORT, n.

A plant, the popular name of some species of Salsola, all which may be used in the manufacture of glass. The barilla of commerce, is the semifused ashes of the Salida soda, which is largely cultivated on the Mediterranean in Spain.

GLASS-Y, a.

1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy sub-stance. Bacon.
2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, n glassy stream; a glary surface; the glassy deep. Shak. Dryden.

GLAS'TON-BU-RY-THORN, n.

A species of medlar.

GLAUB'ER-ITE, n.

A mineral of a grayish white or yellowish color, consisting of dry sulphate of lime and dry sulphate of soda. Ure.

GLAUB'ER-SAIT, n.

Sulphate of soda, a well known cathartic.

GLAU-CO'MA, n. [Gr.]

A fault in the eye, in which the crystaline humor becomes gray, but without injury to the sight. Quincy. A disease in the eye, in which the crystaline humor becomes of a bluish or greenish color, and its transparency is diminished. Encyc. An opacity of the vitreous humor. Hooper. According to Sharp, the glaucoma of the Greeks is the same as the cataract; and according to St. Yves and others, it is a cataract with amaurosis. Parr. Dimness or abolition of sight from opacity of the humors. J. M. Good. "Glaucoma consists in a change of structure in the vitreous humor." "Arthritic inflammation of the internal tunics of the eye, [an inflammation commencing in parts most essential to the function of vision, in the retina, in the vitreous humor, and probably involving the choroid coat,] has sometimes been called acute glaucoma, this term being derived from the greenish appearance of the eye. It has been called glaucoma from another symptom, which takes place, where, with-out any enlargement of the vessels, without any very severe pain or absolute extinction of vision in the first place, the pupil exhibits the same greenish discoloration, a discoloration which obviously does not depend on a change in the crystaline lens; for it is more deeply seated,—it occupies the fundus of the eye, and you can only see it by looking at it, when you are standing directly before the patient, not by looking at the eye side-ways. This is called glaucoma simply; and it appears to me to be a chronic form of the same affection as that to which the term acute glass. coma is given. This chronic form of glaucoma is important to be observed; for it is liable to be confounded with cataract" Mr. Lawrence s Lectures on Surgery.

GLAU'CON-ITE, n.

An argillaceous marl, sometimes con taming a mixture of green sand. Mantell.

GLAUCOUS, a. [L. glauco s.]

Of a sea green color; of a light green.

GLAVE, n. [Fr. glaire; W. glaiv, a billhook, n crooked sword, a cimiter; Arm. glaif.]

A broad-sword; a falchion. [Not used.] Fairfax. Hudibras.

GLAV'ER, v.i.

W. glavru, to flatter; glav, something smooth or shining; L. glaber, laevis, or lubricus; Eng; glib. To flatter; to wheedle. [Little used and vulgar.] L'Estrange,

GLAV'ER-ER, n.

A flatterer. [supra.]

GLAY-MORE, n. [Gael. claidhamh and more.]

A large two-handed sword, formerly used by the Highlanders. Johnson;

GLAZE, v.t. [from glass.]

1. To furnish with windows of glass; as, to glaze a house.
2. To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen-ware.
3. To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of n thing smooth, bright and showy. Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons. Grew.
4. To give a glassy surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.

GLAZ-ED, pp.

Furnished with glass windows; incrusted with a substance resembling glass; rendered smooth and shining.

GLA'ZEN, a.

Resembling glass. Wickliff.

GLA'ZEN-ED, pp.

or a. Glazed.

GLA'ZIER, n. gla'zhur. [from glaze mews.]

One whose business is to set window glass, or to fix panes of glass to the sashes of windows, to pictures, &c. Bacon.

GLAZ-ING,

1. ppr;
2. Furnishing with window glass.
3. Crusting with a vitreous substance, as potter's ware.
4. Giving a smooth, glossy, shining surface, as to cloth;

GLAZ-ING, n.

The vitreous substance with which potters ware is incrusted.

GLEAM, n. [Sax. gleam, or glaem, properly a shoot of light, coinciding with glimmer, glimpse, Ir; loom, [perhapa L. flamma.]

1. The radical sense is to throw, to shoot or dart, and it may be of the same family as clamo, clamor, a shoot of the voice, and W. Vamy, Ir. leam, a leap, Ar. {foreign}, Class Lm, No. 8.]
2. A shoot of light; a beam; a ray; u small stream of light. A gleam of dawning light; metaphorically, a gleam of hope.
3. Brightness; splendor. In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen. Pope.

GLEAM, v.t.

1. To shoot or dart, as rays of light. At the dawn light gleams in the east.
2. To shine; to cast light. Thomson.
3. To flash; to spread a flood of light [Less common..
4. Among falconers, to disgorge filth, as a hawk. Encyc.

GLEAM-ING, n.

A shoot or shooting of light.

GLEAM-ING, ppr.

Shooting as rays of light; shining.

GLEAM-Y, a.

Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; In brazen arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

GLEAN, n.

A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden.