Glaverer Glav"er·er noun A flatterer. [ Obsolete]
Mir. for Mag.
Glaymore Glay"more` noun A claymore. Johnson.
Glaze Glaze (glāz)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Glazed (glāzd);
present participle & verbal noun Glazing .] [ Middle English
glasen ,
glazen , from
glas . See
Glass .]
1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass.
Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears.
Shak. 3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
Glaze Glaze intransitive verb To become glazed of glassy.
Glaze Glaze noun 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze , transitive verb , 3. Ure. 2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. 3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven .
Glazen Glaz"en adjective [ Anglo-Saxon
glæsen .]
Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [ Obsolete]
Wyclif.
Glazer Glaz"er noun 1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.
Glazier Gla"zier noun [ From
Glaze .]
One whose business is to set glass. Glazier's diamond .
See under Diamond .
Glazing Glaz"ing noun 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. 2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. 3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. 4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.
Glazy Glaz"y adjective Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
Glead Glead noun A live coal. See Gleed . [ Archaic]
Gleam Gleam intransitive verb [ Confer Middle English
glem birdlime, glue, phlegm, and English
englaimed .]
(Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Gleam Gleam noun [ Middle English
glem ,
gleam , Anglo-Saxon
glæm , probably akin to English
glimmer , and perhaps to Greek ... warm, ... to warm. Confer
Glitter .]
1. A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. Transient unexpected gleams of joi.
Addison. At last a gleam
Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste
His [ Satan's] traveled steps.
Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.
Longfellow. 2. Brightness; splendor. In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
Pope.
Gleam Gleam transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Gleamed ;
present participle & verbal noun Gleaming .]
1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east. 2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter. Syn. -- To
Gleam ,
Glimmer ,
Glitter . To
gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of light. To
glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady giving of light. To
glitter imports a brightness that is intense, but varying. The morning light
gleams upon the earth; a distant taper
glimmers through the mist; a dewdrop
glitters in the sun. See
Flash .
Gleam Gleam transitive verb To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.). Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.
Shak.
Gleamy Gleam"y adjective Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray,
Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.
Pope.
Glean Glean transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Gleaned ;
present participle & verbal noun Gleaning .] [ Middle English
glenen , Old French
glener ,
glaner , French
glaner , from Late Latin
glenare ; confer W.
glan clean,
glanh...u to clean, purify, or Anglo-Saxon
gelm ,
gilm , a hand...ul.]
1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps.
Shak. 2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left. 3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
Locke.
Glean Glean intransitive verb 1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers.
Ruth ii. 3. 2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees. Piecemeal they this acre first, then that;
Glean on, and gather up the whole estate.
Pope.
Glean Glean noun A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
Dryden.
Glean Glean noun Cleaning; afterbirth. [ Obsolete]
Holland.
Gleaner Glean"er noun 1. One who gathers after reapers. 2. One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.
Gleaning Glean"ing noun The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge.
Cook.
Gleba Gle"ba noun ; plural
Glebæ . [ Latin , a clod.]
(Botany) The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.
Glebe Glebe noun [ French
glèbe , Latin
gleba ,
glaeba , clod, land, soil.]
1. A lump; a clod. 2. Turf; soil; ground; sod. Fertile of corn the glebe , of oil, and wine.
Milton. 3. (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
Glebeless Glebe"less adjective Having no glebe.
Glebosity Gle·bos"i·ty noun The quality of being glebous. [ R.]
Glebous, Gleby Gleb"ous, Gleb"y adjective [ Confer Latin
glaebosus cloddy.]
Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "
Gleby land."
Prior.
Glede Glede (glēd)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
glida , akin to Icelandic
gleða , Swedish
glada . Confer
Glide ,
intransitive verb ]
(Zoology) The common European kite ( Milvus ictinus ). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [ Written also
glead ,
gled ,
gleed ,
glade , and
glide .]
Glede Glede noun [ See
Gleed .]
A live coal. [ Archaic]
The cruel ire, red as any glede .
Chaucer.
Glee Glee (glē)
noun [ Middle English
gle ,
gleo , Anglo-Saxon
gleów ,
gleó , akin to Icelandic
glȳ : confer Greek
chley`n joke, jest.]
1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer. 2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser. 3. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
Glee club Glee club A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc.
Gleed Gleed (glēd)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
glēd , from
glōwan to glow as a fire; akin to Dutch
gloed , German
glut , Icelandic
glōð . See
Glow ,
intransitive verb ]
A live or glowing coal; a glede. [ Archaic]
Chaucer. Longfellow.
Gleeful Glee"ful adjective Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.
Gleek Gleek noun [ Prob. from Icelandic
leika to play, play a trick on, with the prefix
ge- ; akin to Anglo-Saxon
gelācan , Swedish
leka to play, Danish
lege .]
1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [ Obsolete]
Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?
Shak. 2. [ Confer
Glicke ]
An enticing look or glance. [ Obsolete]
A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.
Beau. & Fl.
Gleek Gleek intransitive verb To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [ Obsolete]
Shak.
Gleek Gleek noun [ Old French
glic , German
glück , fortune. See
Luck .]
1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [ Obsolete]
Pepys. Evelyn. 2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [ Obsolete]
Gleeman Glee"man noun ;
plural Gleemen . [
Glee +
man ; Anglo-Saxon
gleóman .]
A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.
Gleen Gleen intransitive verb [ Confer
Glance ,
Glint .]
To glisten; to gleam. [ Obsolete]
Prior.
Gleesome Glee"some adjective Merry; joyous; gleeful.
Gleet Gleet noun [ Middle English
glette ,
glet ,
glat , mucus, pus, filth, Old French
glete .]
(Medicine) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.
Gleet Gleet intransitive verb 1. To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman. 2. To flow slowly, as water. Cheyne.
Gleety Gleet"y adjective Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.
Gleg Gleg adjective [ Icelandic
glöggr .]
Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [ Scot.]
Jamieson.
Gleire, Gleyre Gleire, Gleyre noun See Glair . [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Glen Glen noun [ Of Celtic origin; confer W.
glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael.
gleann valley, glen.]
A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen .
Spenser.
Glengarry Glen·gar"ry noun , or
Glen*gar"ry bon"net [ Name of a valley in Scotland.]
A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings. The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet .
Latin Hutton.
Glenlivat, Glenlivet Glen·liv"at, Glen·liv"et noun A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.
Glenoid Gle"noid adjective [ Greek ...; ... socket of a joint + ... form; confer French
glénoïde .]
(Anat.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
Glenoidal Gle·noid"al adjective (Anat.) Glenoid.
Glent Glent noun & v. See Glint .
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