GLO SUPPLEMENT. GUI 



rganic substances, as the colourless part of GOMPHIOI, the grinders or grin ding teeth, 

 the blooJ corpuscles; the green globules GOMPHOtiOBlUM, a beautiful genus of 

 among the cells of cellular tissues ; the cellu- Australian leguminous shrubs. They are 

 lar or vesicular tissues or granuleswhichTur- poisonous to sheep. 



pin considers to be the organic elements of G<>MOMKTUY,themeasurement of angles, 

 vegetation; also a modified albumen found in as distinct from trigonometry, the measure- 

 the humour? of the eye. ment ol triangles. 



(ii. oss, an Aristotelian expression signify- GORILLA, the larger species ol chimpanzee, 

 ing such unusual idioms as may be occasion- This animal sometimes attains a height ol 

 ally and judiciously employed to adorn style nearly 6' leet, and in its anatomical struc- 

 in rhetoric, yet in some degree requiring ture more nearly approaches that ol man; 

 Interpretation from the context. A gloss than any of the other species, 

 hence came to mean not the idiomatic ex-i GOUSE, the Ulex Europccus, or common 

 pression itself, but its interpretation, in furze, called " whins " in Scotland, 

 which sense it is now most usually under- : GOSUAWK., the Astur falwabarius of 

 stood. ! Cuvier. 



GLOSSARY, a dictionary or vocabulary ] GOSPEL, the name given to revealed re- 

 el exceptional words or phrases often ligion from its containing God's revelation 

 appended to the particular work in which ot His forgiveness of sins, and His mercy 

 they occur. and love to man. 



GL06SOPETHJE, the fossil teeth ot some GOTHIC, one of the low German class of 

 fishes. languages. It has been preserved in the 



ITLOTTALITE, a white hydrated silicate of translation of the Bible into it made by 

 lime and magnesia found on the Clyde. i Bishop Ulfilas in the end of tbe 4th cen- 



iii.i re; ^eil), an acid body obtained from tury, and is more primitive in its gramrnai 

 the spontaneous decomposition of grape sugar than the Anglo-Saxon of Beowull. 

 with alkalies. Synonymous With Kalisaccaric, GOURDS, the species Cucurbita. 

 acid. | GRACIOSO. the buffoon of the Spanish 



GLUCIXUM, a primary metallic element, stage. 



the metallic base of the earth glucina, its GRAPHIC ACID, a crystalline body ob- 

 oxide. It has little metallic lustre, and is tained from graphite under the continued, 

 very difficult of fusion. It was discovered action of sulphuric acid and chlorate ol 

 by Vauquelin in 1798. Its equivalent is 6'9. potash. 



Glucina is a rare oxide : it occurs in the j GRAPHOTYPE, a mode of producing en- 

 beryl euclase and emerald, and is a fine gravings for working in letter-press like 

 white soft powder when extracted. i -wood blocks, and said to be an economy. It 



GLUT, in political economy, the over pro- 'is done upon a surface of prepared andcom- 

 duction or over supply of goods for sale in a pressed chalk by an ink which indurates the 

 market, causing temporary stagnation of trade chalk, allowing the untouched parts to be 

 01 transactions in them, and commercial j brushed away with a eamel's-hair pencil, or 

 depression. otherwise removed, so as to leave the ink 



ULYCERYL, the radical of glycerine = drawing in relief. It is, in fact, an artificial 

 Cg H_ lithography, but does not yet appear to have 



GLYCOL a viscid sweetish liouid contain- met w * th muc ^ commercial success. 



anV~H6 t0 4 . 'VtTsoU^^oi j Li T h ' NSTONE( a variety of trap rock con- 

 and water. 'sisting of hornblende with imperfectly crys- 



C-rLYPHOGRAPHY.engravingmarte through tallised felspar in abundance, 

 a thin film of white wax on a blackened [ GREGORITE, a variety of titanic iron ore. 

 copper-plate. | GREY STONE LIME, a lime so called ID 



i. -\t l : i. 1MTK, synonymous withHydrolite; .London, obtained from the chalk marl of 

 hydrated silicate of alumina, potash, and Godstone, Dorking, &c. It contains about 

 peroxide of iron. : 8 per cent, of silicate of alumina, and is 



GNATHOTHKCA, the integument of the similar to c/tmc/t lime. 



GRIFFITHS' MIXTURE, a tonic containing 

 protocarbonate of iron : the Mistura fvrri 

 Composita. 

 structing dials. / | GROUND ICE or GRU, ice formed at the 



l-ioiUL's, the genus of osseous fishes of bottom of running streams. It is main- 

 which the three spined goby of England is an taine.-l by some that all ice by which running 

 example. streams become frozen is first formed at the 



UOL.UFT3rOH.tlM Carduelit elegant (Frin- bottom. 

 gilla carduelis of Lin.) | GRYPIIOSIS, a growing of the nails 



Go.Mi'Hi.\M>, the disease of the teeth inwards. 



under which they loosen and fall out of their GUIDONS, the silken flags or coloara ot 

 ockew. 'dragoon regiments. 



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beak in ornithology, whether horny or 

 MM. 



>.Mo.virs, the art of dialling or con- 



cutaneoui. 



