Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLOBULE, n. [Fr. globule; L. globulus, dim; of globus.]

A little globe; a small particle of matter of a spherical form; a word particularly applied to the red particles of blood, which swim in a transparent serum, and may be discovered by the microscope. Quincy; Arbuthnot; Encyc. Hail stones have opake globules of snow in their center. Newton.

GLOB'U-LIN, n.

A proximate principle of blood, constituting its red globules.

GLOB'U-LOUS, a.

Round; globular; having the form of small sphere. Boyle.

GLOB-Y, a.

Round; orbicular. Sherwood.

GLODE,

old pret. of glide. [Obs.]

GLOME, n. [L. glomus, a ball; Heb. and Ch. 6J, Ar. lamma, to wind, convolve, or collect into a mass. Class Lm, No; 5, IL Qu; its alliance to lump, dump, plumbum.]

In botany, a roundish head of flowers. Martyn.

GLOM'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. glomero, from glomus, supra.]

To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.

GLOM'ER-A-TED, pp.

Gathered into a ball or round mass.

GLOM'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Collecting or winding into a bal or round mass.

GLOM-ER-A'TION, n. [L. glomeratio.]

1. The act of gathering, winding or forming into a ball or spherical body.
2. A body formed into a ball. Bacon.

GLOM'ER-OUS, a. [L. glomerosus.]

Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. [Qu. the use.]

GLOOM, n. [Scot. gloum, gloom, a frown. In D. lommer a shade, and loom is slow, heavy, dull. In Sax. glomung; twilight.]

1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of u forest, or the gloom of midnight.
2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.
3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.
4. Sullenness.

GLOOM, v.i.

1. To shine obscurely or imperfectly. Spenser.
2. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.
3. To be melancholy or dejected. Goldsmith.

GLOOM, v.t.

To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal. Young.

GLOOM'ED, pp.

Filled with gloom.

GLOOM'I-LY, adv. [from gloomy.]

1. Obscurely dimly darkly; dismally.
2. With melancholy aspect; sullenly; not cheerfully. Dryden. Thomson.

GLOOM'I-NESS, n.

1. Want of light; obscurity; darkness; ' dismalness.
2. Want of cheerfulness; Cloudiness of look; heaviness of mind; melancholy; as, to involve the mind in gloominess. Addison.

GLOOMY, a. [from gloom.]

1. Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; or dark; dismal; as, the gloomy cells of a convent. the gloomy shades of night.
2. Wearing the aspect of sorrow; melancholy; clouded; dejected; depressed; heavy of heart; as, a gloomy countenance or state of mind; a gloomy temper.
3. Of a dark complexion. [Little used.] Milton.

GLOP'PEN, v.t.

To surprise or astonish. N. of England.

GLORE, n.

Fat.

GLO-RI-A'TION, n. [L. gloriatio.]

Boast; a triumphing; [Not used.] Richardson.

GLO'RI-ED, a. [See Glory.]

Illustrious; honorable; [Not used.] Milton.

GLO-RI-FI-CA'TION, n. [See Glorify.]

1. The act of giving glory or of ascribing honors to. Taylor.
2. Exaltation to honor and dignity; elevation to glory; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.

GLORI-FI-ED, pp.

Honored; dignified; exalted to glory;

GLO'RI-FY, v.t. [Fr. glorifier; L. gloria and judo, to make.]

1. To praise; to magnify and honor in worship; to ascribe honor to, in thought or words. Ps. lxxxvi. 9. God is glorified, when such his excellency, above all thing', is With due admiration acknowledged. Hooker.
2. To make glorious; to exalt to glory, or to celestial happiness. Whom he justified, them he also glorified. Rom. The God of our fathers hath glorified his sou Jesus. Acts ii.
3. To praise; to honor; to extol. Whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, him they set up and glorify. Spenser.
4. To procure honor or praise to. Shak.