Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: GLOBE'AN-I-MAL – GLOOM
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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.
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-BOS'I-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-U-LA'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-LAR-LY, adv.
In a spherical form; globulously.
GLOB'ULE, 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. גלם, Ar. لَمَّ lamma, to wind, convolve, or collect into a mass. Class Lm, No. 5, 11. Qu. its alliance to lump, clump, 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 ball or round mass.
GLOM-ER-A'TION, n. [L. glomeratio.]
- The act of gathering, winding or forming into a ball or spherical body.
- 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 is twilight.]
- Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as, the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.
- Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.
- Darkness of prospect or aspect.
- Sullenness.
GLOOM, v.i.
- To shine obscurely or imperfectly. Spenser.
- To be cloudy, dark or obscure.
- To be melancholy or dejected. Goldsmith.