Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLOSS-O-LOGIC-AL, a.

Pertaining to glossology.

GLOSS-OL'O-GY, n. [gloss and Gr. {foreign}, discourse.]

Glosses or commentaries; explanatory notes for illustrating an author.

GLOSSY, a.

Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; as, glossy silk; a glossy raven; a glossy plum. Dryden.

GLOTTIS, n. [Gr. {foreign}, the tongue.]

The narrow opening at the upper part of the trachea or windpipe, which, by its dilatation and contraction, contributes to the modulation of the voice. Encyc. Parr.

GLOUT, v.i. [Scot.]

To pout; to look sullen. [Not used.] Garth.

GLOUT, v.t.

To view attentively. [Not in use.]

GLOVE, n. [Sax. glof. Qu; W. golov, a cover. The G. D. Sw; and Dan; call it a hand-shoe.]

A cover for the hand, or for the hand and arm, with a separate sheath for each finger; The latter circumstance distinguishes the glove from the mitten. To throw the glove, with our ancestors, was to challenge to single combat.

GLOVE, v.t.

To cover with a glove. Shak.

GLOV'ED,

pp; Covered with a glove.

GLOV'ER, n.

One whose occupation is to make and sell gloves.

GLOW, n.

1. Shining heat, or white heat.
2. Brightness of color; redness; as, the glow of health in the cheeks. A waving glow his bloomy beds display, Blushing in bright diversities of day. Pope.
3. Vehemence of passion.

GLOW, v.i.

To heat so as to shine. [Not used.] Shak.

GLOW, v.i. [Sax. glowan, G. gliihen; D. gloeijen, Dan. gloder, to glow, to be red with heat; Dan; glod, gloe, Sax. gled, D. gloed, G. gluth, Sw. glod, W; glo, Corn; glou, Arm. glaouen, a live coal; W. gla or glaw, a shining; gloyw, bright; gloywi, to brighten, or make clear.]

1. To shine with intense heat; or perhaps more correctly, to shine with a white heat; to exhibit incandescence. Hence, in a more general sense, to shine with a bright luster. Glows in the stars and blossoms in the trees. Pope.
2. To burn with vehement heat. The scorching fire that in their entrails glows. Addison.
3. To feel great heat of body; to be hot. Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and scorching heats? Addison.
4. To exhibit a strong bright color; to be red. Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. Dryden. Fair ideas flow, Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow. Pope.
5. To be bright or red with heat or animation, or with blush-es; as, glowing cheeks.
6. To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, &c. We say, the heart glows with love or zeal; the glowing breast. When real virtue tires the glowing hard. Lewis. If you have never glowed with gratitude to the author of the Christian revelation, you know nothing of Christianity. Buckminster.
7. To burn with intense heat; to rage; as passion. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden;

GLOW-ING, ppr.

1. Shining with intense heat; white with heat.
2. Burning with vehement heat.
3. Exhibiting a bright color; red; as, a glowing color glowing cheeks.
4. Ardent; vehement; animated; as, glowing zeal.
5. Inflame; as, a glowing breast.

GLOW-ING-LY, adv.

With great brightness; with ardent heat or passion.

GLOZE, n.

1. Flattery; adulation. Shak.
2. Specious show; gloss. [Not used; See Gloss.] Sidney.

GLOZE, v.i. [Sax. glesan. Sea Gloss.]

To flatter; to wheedle to fawn; that is, to smooth, or to talk smoothly. So glozed the tempter, and hb proem tun'd. Milton. A false glozing parasite. South.

GLOZ-ER, n.

A flatterer. Gifford.

GLOZ-ING, n.

Specious representation.

GLOZ-ING, ppr.

Flattering; wheedling.

GLU'CY-NA, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

More properly.

GLU'CY-NUM, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

More properly GLYCYNUM. The name of a metal, which appears in the form of a grayish black powder, and acquires a dark metallic luster by burnishing. It may be exposed to air and moisture, or be boiled' in water without oxydation.

GLUE, n.

glu; [Fr. glu; W. glyd; Arm; glud; Ir. glydh, gliu, gleten; L. luten; Gr. {foreign}; Russ. klei; See Class Ld, No. 8, 9, 10.] Inspissated animal gluten; a tenacious, viscid matter, which serves as a cement to unite other substances. It is made of the skins, parings, &c; of animals, as of oxen, calves or sheep, by boiling them to a jelly. Encyc. Parr.

GLUE, v.t. [Fr. gluer.]

1. To join with glue or a viscous substance. Cabinet; makers glue together some parts of furniture.
2. To unite; to hold together. Newton. [This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense. The phrases, to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]

GLUE-BOIL-ER, n. [glue and boil.]

One whose occupation is to make glue.