Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLU'ER, n.

One who cements with glue.

GLU'EY, a.

Viscous; glutinous.

GLU'EY-NESS, n.

The quality of being gluey.

GLU'ING, ppr.

Cementing with glue.

GLU'ISH, a.

Having the nature of glue. Sherwood.

GLUM, a. [Scot. gloum, a frown.]

Frowning; sullen. [Little used.]

GLUM, n.

Sullenness; and, as a verb, to look sullen. [Not in use.]

GLU-MA'CEOUS, a.

Having glumes; consisting of glumes. Barton.

GLUME, n. [L. gluma, from glubo, to bark or peel, or Gr. γλυφω.]

In botany, the calyx or corol of corn and grasses, formed of valves embracing the seed, often terminated by the arista or beard; the husk or chaff. Milne. Martyn.

GLUM'MY, a.

Dark; gloomy; dismal.

GLU'MOUS, a.

A glumous flower is a kind of aggregate flower, having a filiform receptacle, with a common glume at the base. Martyn.

GLUT, n.

1. That which is swallowed. Milton.
2. Plenty even to lothing. He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights. L'Estrange. A glut of study and retirement Pope.
3. More than enough; superabundance. B. Jonson.
4. Any thing that fills or obstructs the passage. Woodward.
5. A wooden wedge. New England.

GLUT, v.i. [L. glutio; Fr. engloutir; Russ. glotayu, to swallow; W. glwth, a glutton; glythu, to gormandize; from llwth, a swallow, greediness; It. ghiotto, Low L. gluto, a glutton; Heb. Ch. לעט. [See Ar. خَلَطَ.]

1. Class Ld, No. 17. The sense is to crowd, to stuff.]
2. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge. Milton.
3. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites. Denham.
4. To feast or delight even to satiety. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden.
5. To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market.
6. To saturate. Boyle.

GLU'TE-AL, a. [Gr. γλουτος, nates.]

The gluteal artery, is a branch of the hypogastric or internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal muscles. Coxe. Hooper. The gluteal muscles, are three large muscles on each side, which make up the fleshy part of the buttocks. Parr.

GLU'TEN, n. [L. See Glue.]

1. A tough elastic substance, of a grayish color, which becomes brown and brittle by drying; found in the flour of wheat and other grain. It contributes much to the nutritive quality of flour, and gives tenacity to its paste. A similar substance is found in the juices of certain plants. Brande.
2. That part of the blood which gives firmness to its texture. Parr.

GLU'TE-US, n.

The large thick muscle on which we sit.

GLU'TIN-ATE, v.t.

To unite with glue; to cement.

GLU'TIN-A-TED, pp.

United with glue. Bailey.

GLU'TIN-A-TING, ppr.

Uniting with glue.

GLU-TIN-A'TION, n.

The act of uniting with glue. Bailey.

GLU'TIN-A-TIVE, a.

Having the quality of cementing; tenacious.

GLU-TIN-OS'I-TY, n.

The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.

GLU'TIN-OUS, a. [L. glutinosus.]

1. Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue. Starch is glutinous.
2. In botany, besmeared with a slippery moisture; as, a glutinous leaf. Martyn.

GLU'TIN-OUS-NESS, n.

Viscosity; viscidity; the quality of glue, tenacity. Cheyne.

GLUT'TED, pp.

Cloyed; filled beyond sufficiency.