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.

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-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.]

  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 is twilight.]

  1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as, the gloom of a 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.