glandulosity 
In the upper part of worms there are . . . found cer- 
tain white and oval ^:,i,ulidn.,:n,'S. 
Sir T. llruime, Vulg. Err., iii. 27. 
glandulouS (glan'du-lus), . [Also ylanduloxe; 
= F. glandulcux = Sp. Pg. It. y/aiiduloso, < L. 
glandnli>t!us, glandiilotis, < glumlitla, a gland: 
see glandule.] Same as glandular. 
All glands and i/laii'liitim* parts do likewise consist of 
fibers, but of the softer kind. 
N. Grew, Cosnudogia Sacra, I. v. 18. 
Glanencheli (gla-neng'ke-li), n.pl. [NL., < Gr. 
yAavtf, prob. the sheat-fish (cf. //.dvoc,, the hy- 
ena), + i'/x&vf, eel.] In Cope's classification, 
an order of physostomous fishes, containing 
only the electric eels or Eleetrophoridaj. They 
have no precoracoid arch ; the scapular arch is suspended 
to the eranium ; a symplectic bone is present ; the parietals 
are united; and the anterior vertebne are modified. By 
others the group is referred to the order Plectospondyli. 
glanenchelian (glan-eng-ke'li-an), a. [As Gla- 
nencheli + -/aw.] Pertaining to the Glauem-licli. 
glanenchelous (gla-neng'ke-lus), . Same as 
glancnchelitiH. 
glanidian (gla-nid'i-an), ii. [NL., < glairis 
(glaiiid-) + -/.] A fish of the family Siluri- 
dai ; a silurid, as a catfish or sheat-lish. Sir 
J. Ilicliardson. 
Glaniostomi (glan-i-os'to-mi), n. pi. [NL., < 
Gr. y/ldwf, prob. the sheat-fish, + mojia, mouth.] 
An order of chondrosteous ganoid fishes, con- 
taining only the Acipenserida; or true sturgeons, 
thus separated from the Selachostomi : so called 
from having the mouth furnished with barbels 
like those of catfishes: synonymous with Clion- 
drostei, 2, in a strict sense. See Ganoidei, 2. Also 
written Glanostomi, Glanistomi. E. D. Cope. 
glaniostomous(glan-i-os'to-mus),. [As Glani- 
ostomi + -ous.~\ Catfish-mouthed; having bar- 
bels like those of the horned pouts or Silurida : 
specifically applied to the Glaniostomi. 
glanis (gla'nis), n. [NL., < Gr. j-Adwf, prob. 
the sheat-fish; cf. yUvof, the hyena.] 1. The 
specific name of the common siluroid fish of 
Europe, Silurus glanis, the sheat-fish. 2. [cap.] 
A genus of Silurians, of which the sheat-fish is 
the type. 
glans (glanz), .; pi. glaitdes (glan'dez). [L., 
an acorn: see gland.] 1. In bot., the acorn, or 
a similar fruit. 2. In med.: (a) A strumous 
swelling or enlargement of the thyroid gland; 
bronchocele; goiter. (6) A pessary; a supposi- 
tory. 3. In anat., the head of the penis or of 
the clitoris. More fully called glans penis and 
glans clitoridis. 4. [cap.] In conch., a genus 
of mollusks. Megerle. 
glar, n. See glare^, glaur. Carlyle. 
glare 1 (glar), v. ; pret. and pp. glared, ppr. 
glaring. [< ME. glaren, shine brightly, also 
look fiercely, = MLG. glaren, LG. glaren, shine 
brightly, glow, burn, = MHG. glaren, shine 
brightly; allied to ME. gloren, shine brightly, 
look fiercely, glower (see glare, glower) ; prob. 
secondary forms of the verb-root from which 
are derived AS. glcer, amber, and glieg, glass, 
etc.: see glass.] I. intrans. 1. To shine with 
a strong, bright, dazzling light ; be intensely or 
excessively bright. 
To see a chimney-piece of Dancre's doing, in distemper, 
with egg to keep off the glaring of the light. 
Pepys, Diary, IV. 9:1 
On a summer's day there [on the Lido] the sun glaren 
down upon the sand and flat gravestones. 
Howells, Venetian Life, xii. 
2. To look with a fierce and piercing stare. 
" One as melancholic as a cat," answered Mockso, " and 
glared upon me as if he would have looked through me." 
Man in the Moone (1609). 
Look you, how pale he [the ghost] glares ! 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
Glared like angry lions as they passed, 
And wished that every look might be the last. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., i. :if>r>. 
3. To be intensely or excessively bright in 
color; be too brilliantly ornamented ; be osten- 
tatiously splendid. 
Lo, thus it fareth, 
It is not al golde that glarettt. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 272. 
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. 
Pope, Epistle to Hiss Blount, 1. 53. 
= Syn. 1. Glare, Glisten. Scintillate, Glister, Glitter. 
Gleam, Spark!,; Cwii-n/r. (Slimmer, Flicker. Glare in- 
dicates a steady, dazzling, or painful excess of light ; glis- 
ten is a popular word, while scintillate is the exact or 
formal word, for a light that is unequal or is slightly in- 
terrupted: as, glistening eyes, dew, stars; scintillating 
stars. Scintillate is also used for the throwing off of spar- 
kles: as, the scintillating iron at the forge. Glisten repre- 
sents a softer, and glitter a harder, light than glister, 
glitter implying a cold, metallic ray : as, glittering bayo- 
nets ; " all is not gold that glittfrx." Gleam stands for a 
small but generally steady and pleasant light, a long ray : 
as, the liuht gleamed through the keyhole ; hope gleu uinl 
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upon him. Sparkle represents a hard light that seems 
to be emitted irregularly in ignited particles or visible 
parts: as, sparkling diamonds, eyes, wit. Crnmttf ex- 
presses a rapid throwing off of vivid or brilliant tta>lus 
of liyht, as in the aurora borealis or by a revolving piece 
of firework*. Glimmer represents n faint and unsteady 
light: as, stars 'jliintn?riii(f through the mist. Flicker goes 
further, and suggests, as iffininter does not, a probable ex- 
tinction of the light: as, a flickering taper. See flame, 
n., and radiance. 
[The sun] glared down in the woods, where the breathless 
boughs 
Hung heavy and faint in a languid drowse. 
Coleridge, Thunder Storm. 
The clay walls glisten like gold in the slanting rays. 
O' Donovan, Merv, ix. 
Then in the dusk the //littering splendor scintillate* as 
brilliantly as it did eight hundred years ago. 
Lathrop, .Spanish Vistas, p. 86. 
To be perk'il up in a glisteri.ng grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 3. 
Violets, heavenly blue, 
Spring, glittering with the cheerful drops like dew. 
Bryant, Paradise of Tears. 
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, 
Adorns and cheers our way. 
Golilmnith, Captivity, ii. 1. 
The rosy sky, 
With one star sparkling through it like an eye. 
Byron, Don Juan, ii. 183. 
As flaming fire was more coruscating and enlightening 
than any other matter, they invented lamps to hang in 
the sepulchres of the rich, which would burn perpetually. 
Greenhill, Art of Embalming, p. 331. 
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering 
vapours 
Veiled the light of his face. Longfellow, Evangeline, i. 4. 
On us all flickers the firelight kind. 
Lowell, Darkened Mind. 
II. trans. To shoot out or emit, as a dazzling 
light. [Rare.] 
One Spirit in them ruled ; and every eye 
Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire 
Among the accurst. Milton, P. L., vi. 849. 
glare 1 (glar), n. [< glare 1 , .] 1. A strong, 
bright, dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or 
splendor that dazzles the eyes; especially, a 
confusing and bewildering light. 
The frame of burnished steel that cast a ijlare. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., ii. 546. 
Without, the steady glare 
Shrank one sick willow sere and small. 
Tennyson, Mariana in the South. 
2. A fierce, piercing look. 
About them round, 
A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. 
Milton, t. L., iv. 402. 
I looked on haughty Endicott; with weapon half-way 
drawn, 
Swept round the throng his lion glare of bitter hate and 
scorn. Whittier, Cassandra Southwick. 
3. A stretch of ice ; an icy condition. 
Seuen months the Winter dures [in Russia], theglareit is 
so great, 
As it is May before he turne his ground to sowe his wheate. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 386. 
= Syn. 1. Flare, etc. See flame, n. 
glare 1 (glar), a. [< glare*, .] Smooth; slip- 
pery; transparent; glassy. 
I have seen ponies which had to be knocked down and 
pulled across gla re ice on their sides [in crossing a stream]. 
T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 87. 
glare 2 (glar), . and v. Another spelling of glair. 
Glareola (gla-re'o-la), n. [NL., dim. of L. 
glfirea, gravel.] A remarkable genus of birds. 
Common Glareole or Pratincole {Glareola fratincota'i. 
typical of the family (ilareolidee. The common 
glareole or pratincole is G. pratiiicola. There are several 
others, all of the old world. See pratincole. 
glareole (glar'e-61), n. [< Glareola.] A bird 
of the genus Glareola ; a pratincole. 
Glareolidse (glar-e-ol'i-de), n.pl. [NL., < Gla- 
reola + -id(e.] A family of limicoline birds, the 
glareoles or pratincoles, belonging among the 
plovers or Charadriomorpha;, but presenting 
glass 
anomalous external characters, which have 
caused them to be classed with the swallows, 
the goatsuckers, and other birds. The eyes are 
very large ; the beak is compressed, curved, and deeply 
cleft, somewhat like a cuckoo's ; the tail is long and foifl- 
cate like a swallow's ; the middle claw is peetinate like a 
goatsucker's or heron's; the hind toe is turned sidewise; 
the wings are very long and pointed ; and the legs are 
short for birds of this group, and feathered to the suffrage. 
The general form is lithe and graceful, like that of a swal- 
low. There is but one genus, Glareola. See cut under 
Glareola. 
glareoline (gla-re'o-lin), a. [< glareole + -wie 1 .] 
Having the character of a glareole ; pertaining 
to the genus Glareola. 
glareose (glar'e-6s), a. [< L. glareosus, full 
of gravel, grave'lly, < glarea, gravel.] In l>ot., 
growing in gravelly places. [Rare.] 
glareous, a. See glaireons. 
glariness (glar'i-nes), n. The quality of being 
glary. 
glaring (glar'ing), p. a. 1. Emitting a bril- 
liant, dazzling light ; shining with dazzling 
luster. 
Life's changes vex, its discords stun, 
Its glaring sunshine blindeth. 
Whittier, Well of Loch Maree. 
2. Staring. 
Swiche glaring eyen hadde he, as an hare. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 686. 
3. Clear ; plainly discernible ; open and bold ; 
barefaced : as, a glaring mistake or crime. 
The absurdity of unqualified altruism becomes, indeed, 
glaring on remembering that it can be extensively prac- 
tised only if in the same society there coexist one moiety 
altruistic and one moiety egoistic. 
H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 185. 
glaringly (glar'ing-li), adv. In a glaring man- 
ner ; openly ; clearly ; notoriously. 
The colours for the ground were . . . well chosen, nei- 
ther sullenly dark nor glaringly lightsome. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
The satirist never falls upon persons who are not glar- 
ingly faulty, and the libeller on none but who are con- 
spicuously commendable. Steele, Tatler, No. 92. 
glaringness (glar' ing -nes), . The state or 
quality of being glaring. 
The glaringneis of his prose, and the intricacy of his 
style, seemed to him so many pearls. 
Jarvis, tr. of Don Quixote, I. i. 1. 
glartt,. [Appar. a var. of dart.'} Mucous mat- 
ter; phlegm. 
For the party that is incombred in the breast with any 
kind of fleame orglart. Take the powder of betouie, drink 
it with warme water ; it voideth and purgeth the fleame 
wondrously, and doth away the glart or fleame. 
Quoted in Nareo. 
glary (glar'i), a. [< glare 1 + -j 1 .] 1. Of a 
brilliant, dazzling luster. 
I know that hright crystal glass is glary ; and to avoid 
that glariness, our artificers run into the other extreme. 
Boyle, Works, VI. 135. 
2. Covered with a glare of ice ; icy. 
In the winter time, so glarie is the ground, 
As neither grasse, nor other graine, in pastures may be 
found. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 386. 
Glas-, -glas. [Gael, glas, gray, pale, wan, = Ir. 
glas, green, verdant, pale, wan, poor. It is 
possible that in some local names this element 
is an accom. of Gael, glac, a hollow, a valley, a 
narrow valley, = Ir. glac, a narrow glen.] An 
element in some place-names of Celtic (mostly 
Gaelic) origin, signifying 'dark,' 'gray' (or 
'valley': see etymology): as, Glasford; Doug- 
las; Strathglass. 
glaset, v. An obsolete form of glaze. 
glasent, a. See glazen. 
Glaserian (gla-ze'ri-an), a. Relating to the 
Swiss anatomist Glaser (1629-75). Also spell- 
ed Glasserian.- Glaserian assure. See fissure. 
glaserite (gla'zer-It), n. [From Christoph 
Glaser, a Swiss chemist (17th century), + -ite?.] 
Potassium sulphate occurring in orthorhombic 
crystals. 
glashan (glash'an), n. Same as glossan. 
glass (glas), n. and a. [< ME. glas, gles, < AS. 
glees, glass (only of the material), = D. glas = 
OHG. glas, glass (also amber), MHG. glas, G. 
glas Icel. glas = OSw. Sw. glas = Dan. glas 
(Goth, not recorded), glass ; appar. the same as 
AS. gter, amber, = Icel. gler = OSw. gla-r = 
Dan. glar (obs.), glass; the L. glassiim, glesum, 
glessmn, amber, is perhaps from the OTeut. 
form. The verb-root is repr. by glare 1 , q. v.] 
I. n. 1. A substance resulting from the fu- 
sion of a combination of silica -(rarely boracic 
acid) with various bases. See vitreous, it is 
usually hard, brittle, has a conchoidal fracture, and is 
more or less transparent, some kinds being entirely so, 
while other substances to which the name of gla* is com- 
monly given are, in consequence of the Impurity of the 
