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Look up: Glove

  1. glove
    [n] - handwear: covers the hand and wrist
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. glove
    protective clothing to guard the fingers,hands,and sometimes the wrists and forearm,from cuts,abrasions,chemicals and other hazards Category: Medicine
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Glove
    Glove (glŭv) noun [ Middle English glove , glofe , Anglo-Saxon glōf ; akin to Icelandic glōfi , confer Goth. lōfa palm of the hand, Icelandic lōfi .] 1. A cover for t...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/36

  4. Glove
    Glove transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gloved ; present participle & verbal noun Gloving .] To cover with, or as with, a glove.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/36

  5. glove
    noun handwear: covers the hand and wrist
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Glove
    • (n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten. • (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove. • (n.) A boxing glove.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. glove
    (from the article `baseball`) Baseball was originally played bare-handed. Beginning in 1860, catchers, who attempt to catch every pitch not hit, became the first to adopt gloves. ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/39

  8. glove
    covering for the hand with separate sections for the fingers and thumb, and sometimes extending over the wrist or part of the arm. Fingerless ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/39

  9. glove
    glove, hand covering with a separate sheath for each finger. The earliest gloves, relics of the cave dwellers, closely resembled bags. Reaching to the elbow, they were most probably worn solely for protection and warmth. Although there is some indication of the use of separate fingers in an Egyptian...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  10. Glove
    Gloves are coverings for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. They are made of leather, fur, cloth, silk, linen thread, cotton, worsted, etc. The chief leathers traditionaly used in glove manufacture were doe, buck, and calf-skins; sheep-skin for military glov...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  11. Glove
    A `glove` (Middle English from Old English glof) is a garment covering the hand. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Fingerless gloves with one larg...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glove

  12. Glove
    (ice hockey) There are three styles of `gloves` worn by ice hockey players. Skaters wear similar gloves on each hand, while goaltenders wear gloves of different types on each hand. Types of gloves: Skaters` gloves: Skaters` gloves are designed to protect the players` hands from pucks, sticks,...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glove

  13. Glove
    (disambiguation) :See also the disambiguation for Golden Glove A `glove` is a type of garment or utility which is designed to cover the human hand. There are gloves for commercial and industrial purposes as well as for sports and recreation Glove may also refer to:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glove



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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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