Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLIT'TER, n.

Brightness; brilliancy; splendor; luster; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage; the glitter of dress.

GLIT'TER, v.i. [Sax. glitenan; Sw. glittra. See Glisten.]

1. To shine; to sparkle with light; to gleam; to be splendor did; as, a glittering eword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.
2. To be showy, specious or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.

GLIT'TER-AND, ppr.

or a. Sparkling. [Not in use.] Chaucer.

GLITTER-ING, ppr.

Shining; splendid; brilliant.

GLOAM, v.i.

To be sullen; [See Glum.]

GLOAR, v.i. [D. gluuren, to leer.]

To squint; to stare. [Obs.]

GLOAT, v.i. [Sw. glutta, to peep.]

To cast side glances; to stare with eagerness or admiration. [Obs.]. Rowe.

GLO'BARD, n.

A glow worm.

GLOB-ATE,

GLOB-A-TED, a. [L. globatus.]

Having the form of a globe; spherical; spheroidal.

GLOBE, n. [L. globus; Fr. globe; Sp. aud h. globe; Sax. cleow, cliwe or cliaw; Eng. clew. See Clew. Russ. klub, a ball.]

1. A round or spherical solid body; a ball; a sphere; a body whose surface is in every put equidistant from the center.
2. The earth; the terraqueous ball; so called, though not perfectly spherical Locke.
3. An artificial sphere of metal, paper or other matter, on whose convex surface is drawn a map or representation of the earth or of the heavens; That on which the several oceans, seas, continents, isles and countries of the earth are represented, is called a terrestrial globe. That which exhibits a delineation of the constellations in the heavens, is called a celestial globe.
4. A body of soldiers formed into a circle. Milton.

GLOBE, v.t.

To gather round or into a circle. Milton.

GLOBE-AM'A-RANTH, n.

A plant of the genus Gomphraena; [See Amaranth.] Fam. of Plants.

GLOBE-AN-I-MAL, n.

A species of animalcule of a globular form. Encyc.

GLOBE-DAI-SY, n.

A plant or flower of the genus Globularia. Fam. of Plants.

GLOBE-FISH, n.

A fish of a globular shape, the Ostracion. Johnson. Encyc.

GLOBE-FLOW-ER, n.

A plant or flower of the genus Sphaeranthus. Fam; of Plants.

GLOBE-RA-NUN'CU-LUS, n.

A plant, the Trollius Europaeus. Fam. of Plants. Lee.

GLOBE-THIS-TLE, n.

A plant of the genus Echinops. Farm of Plants.

GLO-BOSE, a. [L. globosus, from globe.]

Round; spherical; globular. Milton.

GLO-BOSI-TY, n.

The quality of being round; sphericity. Ray.

GLO'BOUS, a. [L. globosus.]

Round; spherical Milton.

GLOB'U-LAR, a. [from globe.]

Round; spherical; having the form of a small ball or sphere; as, globular atoms. Grew.

GLOB-ULA'RI-A, n.

The natural-history name of a genus of plants, the species of which grow in the temperate and warm parts of Europe.

GLOB'U-LAS-LY, adv.

In a spherical form; globulously.