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f-iv, that the Son of God had hh beginning in time." 



Fie.iry. 



Gl.oiiiA in cxcelfis is alfo a kind of hymn relicarfed in di- 

 vine fervice, beginning with the words Gloria in e.xnl/Js Deo, 

 iff in terra pax h(/ininibus, 5:c; Gloiy be to Ccd on hii^h, on 

 earth peace, &c. 



GLORIOSA, in Botany, fo named on account of the 

 fplcndour and magnilicencc- ot its flowers. Tournefort, ob- 

 jecting to the name given by Linnaeus bccaufe it is an adjec- 

 tive, called this genus l\Ic',honi-a, in wliich lie has been 

 followed by JufTieii, and indeed by all French botaniils, 

 though the Linnxiin ichool have refufed to adopt this barba- 

 rous name. — Linn. Gen. 164. Schreb. 220. Willd Sp. PI. 

 V. 2. 95. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 1.434. Mart. Mill. Did. 

 V 2. Gxrtn. t. 18. .lufl". 48. — Clafs and order, Hexandrid 

 Mnnogynia . Nat. Ord, Sarminlacsre, Linn. LiUa, .Tuff. 



G'n. Ch. Cal. n;ine. Cor. Petals fix, oblong-lanceolate, 

 waved, verv long, entirely bent back, furniflied at the bale 

 of their infide with a honey -bearing furrow, between two 

 ridges, i'tom. Filaments fix, a wl-ihaped,fhorter than t lie corolla, 

 horizontal ; anthers incumbent. Pijl- Germen globofe ; ftyle 

 tiircad-fhaped, longer than the ilamens, horizontal ; tligmas^ 

 three, thrcad-lhaped. Peric. Capfule fuperior, oval, with 

 three lobes, three cells, and three valves. Seeds numerous, 

 globular, covered with pulp, and difpofed in two rows. 



Eff Ch. Corolla of fix waved and reflexed petals. Style 

 oblique. 



1. G./iiperki. Superb Lily. Linn. Sp. PI. 437. Re- 

 dout. Liliac t. 26. — " Leaves furnifhed with tendrils." — 

 Native of Malabar and Guinea. It was introduced into 

 Kew Garden in 1690 by the firft earl of Portland. A ten- 

 der Hove plant, flowering in July and Augull. Th'^Jltm is 

 herbaceous, about a fathom high, round, having two oppo- 

 Cte lateral branches, and putting forth a flower-llalk from the 

 bofom of each leaf. Z,eav.'S alternate, fraootli, each ending 

 in a tendril. Flcwers pendent, of a moil beautiful red and 

 vellow colour. Petals lanceolate, long, waved at the edge, 

 reflexed near the hafe. This remarkably handlome plant re- 

 quires exceflive heat to make it flower. 



2. G /implex. Linn. Maut. 62. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2, 96. — 

 " Leaves pointed.'' — Native of Senegal. The leaves are 

 not furnifhed with tendrils. Flo-wers blue. — There is no 

 figure of this fpecies known. It was merely taken up from 

 Miller, nor has any thing been found « liich anlwers to the 

 dcfcription. 



Obf. This very beautiful genus is nearly allicrd to Erythro- 

 mum. 



Glorio.sa, in Gardenif^, comprifes a plant of the 

 herbaceous, flowering perennial kind ; of which the fpecies 

 cultivated is the fuperb-lily (G. fuperba.) 



Method of Culture. — It i.; capable of being increafed by 

 planting the off"sets from the old roots, either in the autumn 

 after the ftems decay, or in the early fpring before they flioot, 

 in pots filled with light earth, plunging them in the bark- 

 bed of the ftove. The old roots, when taken out of the 

 ground, fliould be preferved in dry fand during the winter 

 in the Hove, or in a dry warm room. It is the practice of 

 fome to let the roots remain during the winter in the mould, 

 };^eeping the pots in the tan-bed ; planting out the offsets early 

 in the fpring. In cither way they llunild have very little 

 v,ater given them. 



When the ftems appear they fliould be fupported by flicks, 

 End in hot dry weather a little water (hould be fparingly 

 given, as there may be occafion. And the pots in which they 

 lire pkintcd fliould be fmall, that they may be confined, and 

 put Fjrth ftronger Hems. Two-penny pots will be large 



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enough for the roofs of the grcatcft fized plants of this na* 

 turc. 



The plants afford much effeft by their beautiful flowers 

 among thofc of the ftove kind, when properly intermixed 

 with them. 



GLORIOUS I>;t,.\KDS, in Geography, two fmall iflando in 

 the Indian fea. S lat. II 3a'. E long. 47° 15'. 



GLOSKAR, a fmall iflaiid in tlie^Baltic, E. of Abnd. 

 N. lat. 60 20'. E. long. 20 13'. 



GLOSS, Glo.<-s.\, a comment on the text of any author, 

 to explain his fenfe more fully and at lirgc, wIiL'ther in 

 the fame language, or in any other. See Commentaky. 



The word, according to fome, comes from v'i'o'^, tongue ; 

 the office of a glofs being to explain the text, as that of the 

 tongue is to difcovcr the mind. Others derive it frcTm the 

 l..ViUn qlofs, oi yy.y.-j>:, a fjkr-in-hiw, which among lawyers 

 fometinies Hands for lifter ; the glofs being, as it were, filler 

 to the text. 



Nic de Lvra compc»fed a poftil or glofs on the Bible, 

 in fix volumes folio. The Fivncti fav, jiroverbiaHy of ail 

 ill comment, that it is glofs d'Orkans, plus obfcun yui U 

 texte. 



Glcs.s is alfo ufed for a literal tranflation, or an interpre- 

 tation of an author in another language, word for word. 

 Young fcholars need an interlin'-ary glofs for the under- 

 ftanding of .luvcnal, Horace, SiiUull, Perfius, &c.. 



Gloss is alio ufed in matters ot Commerce, &o. for the 

 lu'lre of filk, fluff, or the like. 



GLOSSARY, GLO.'i.sAuiLM, a kind of dictionary for 

 explaining the obl'cure, ancient, and barbarous words and 

 plirafts of an altered, corrupted, or refined language. 



Spelman's gloflfary, entitled Archaiologicum, is. in excel- 

 lent work ; though that author did not begin to lluuy in thii 

 way till fifty vear.-; of age. M. Du Gauge's Latin Gloflary 

 in fix volumes, Paris, fol. 1733, IJalil, fol. 1762, is a work 

 in high eftimation, and containing a fund of the moft curious 

 and amufing intelligence. Cliarpentier's fuppk'inent to this 

 work, in 4 volumes, fol. Paris, 17-66, is neceffary to render 

 tliis fet of books complete. Du Caiigc's Greek Gloflary in 

 two volumes, fol. Lugd. i6SSr is an e:icellcnt performance, 

 full of uncommon erudition. 



The Greek, Latin, and French gloflaries of Du Gang's 

 form a feries of the moft inftniclive articles in the ftudy of 

 jurifprudence and belles lettres. There is an abridgment 

 of tliis work in 6 vols. 8vo. ; which, however, contains fome 

 matter not common to cither of tile preceding. This .-vbiidg- 

 ment is exceedingly rare. As a caution to the purcluifers of 

 the Greek Glofl'aiy, we inform them tliat in the articla 

 " Monetn" (Coins, vol. iv.p. 904.) there Ihoidd be lo plates 

 of engTavings of coins, and monograms of various princes 

 and fovereignsof Europe, which are fometimes wanting, and 

 thus tlie value of the edition i5 materirJly depretiatcd. 



Lindenbroek has a Gloflary on the laws of Charlcraagne, 



&c. 



GLOSSOCATOCHOS, in Surgery, an inftmment for 

 deprefTing the tongue. It is delcribed by Paulus jEginets, 

 and the term is derived from y?.:»j-<,-:., the tongue, and «'i!x-"» 

 lo r prefs. 



GLOSSOGE LE, denoting a fweUing and protrufion of 

 the tongue. The word comes from yXij-c-x, tbc longui, and 

 r.y,>.r, a tumour, 

 ■ GLOSSOCOM.A, a rr^traftion of the tongue. 



GLOSSOCOME, in the JnJ/.-vmenral Mufic of the Creeisi 

 a name given by the ancients to a kir.d of cale for the glottis, 

 or tongues of their flutes, which probably were hautboys, 

 and, confequently, their glottis was a reed. See Glottis. 



GLOSSOCOMON, in Muhanics, is a name given by Hi- 



ero. 



