Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLUTTON, n. glut'n. [Low L; gluto; Fr. gloutoa; See Glut.]

1. One who indulges to excess in eating.
2. One eager of any thing to excess. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.
3. In zoology, the Gulo vulgaris, found in the north of Europe and Siberia. It grows to the length of three feet, but his short legs and moves slowly. It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal. It is named from its voracious appetite. Dict. Nat. Hist. Its voracity has been ridiculously exaggerated. Curia.

GLUTTON-IZE, v.i.

To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious. Trans. of Grellman.

GLUT'TON-OUS, a.

1. Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; as, a gluttonous age. Raleigh.
2. Consisting in excessive eating; as, gluttonous delight. Milton.

GLUTTON-OUS-LY, adv.

With the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating.

GLUT'TON-Y, n.

1. Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.
2. Luxury of the table. Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
3. Voracity of appetite. Encyc.

GLYC'E-RIN, n. [Gr. {foreign}, sweet.]

A sweet substance that may be extracted from fatty matter; a transparent liquid, without color or smell, of a sirupy consistence. Ure.

GLY-CO'NI-AN, or GLY-CON'IC, a. [Low L. glyconium.]

Denoting a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of three feet, a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhich; as glyconic measure. Johnson.

GLYCYNA,

The only oxyd of the metal glucynum; It is a white pow-der, without taste or odor, and insoluble in water. The salts of glueyna have a sweet taste, and hence its name.

GLYN,

See GLEN.

GLYPH, n. [Gr; {foreign}, from {foreign}, to carve.]

In sculpture and architecture, a notch, canal, channel or cavity intended as an ornament. Chambers.

GLYPH'IC, n.

A picture or figure by which a word is implied. [See Hieroglyphic.]

GLYP-TIC, a.

In mineralogy, figured.

GLYP'TICS, n. [supra.]

The art of engraving figures on precious stones.

GLYP'TO-DON, n. [Gr. {foreign}, engraved, and {foreign}, tooth]

An extinct animal of the size of an ox, covered with seek and having fluted teeth. Mantell.

GLYP-TO-GRAPH-IC, a. [Gr. {foreign}, and {foreign}.]

Describing the methods of engraving on precious stones.

GLYP-TOG'RA-PHY, n. [supra.]

A description of the art of engraving on precious stones. British Critc.

GNAR, or GNARL, v.i.

nar, narl. [Sax. gnyrran, gnornian; Dan. knurrer; Sw. knarra; D. gnorren, knorren; gnurren, knarren.] To growl; to murmur; to snarl. And wolves are gnarling which shall gnaw thee first. Shak. [Gnar is nearly obsolete.]

GNARL-ED, a. narled.

Knotty; full of knots; as, the gnarled oak. Shak.

GNASH, v.i. nash.

1. To grind the teeth. He shall gnash with his teeth and melt away. Ps. cxii.
2. To rage even to collision with the teeth; to growl. They gnashed on me with their teeth. Ps; xxv.

GNASH, v.t. nash. [Dan; k asker; Sw. gnissla and knastra. Qu; D. knarzen, G. knirrschen, to gnash, and It. ganascia, the jaw.]

To strike the teeth together, as in anger or pain as, to gnash the teeth in rage. Dryden.

GNASH'ING,

ppr; nash'ing. Striking the teeth together, as in anger, rage or pain.

GNASH'ING, n. nash'ing.

A grinding or striking of the teeth in rage or anguish. Tbere shnll he weeping and gnashing of teeth; Matth. viii.

GNASH'ING-LY, adv.

With gnashing.

GNAT, n. nat. [Sax; gnat; Qu. Gr; {foreign}.]

1. A name applied to several insects, of the genus Culex. Their mouth is formed by a flexible sheath, inclosing bristles pointed like stings. The sting is a tube containing five or six spiculae of exquisite fineness, denated or edged. The most troublesome of this genus is the musketoe. Encyc. Cyc.
2. Any thing proverbially small. Ye blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel. Matth. xxiii.

GNAT'FLOW-ER, n.

A flower, called also bee-flower. Johnson.