gloiocarp 
gloiocarp (gloi'o-karp), . [For Teg.'glceocarp, 
< Gr. yAoia, glue, yAoidf, n., gum, gluten, + 
KopTnif, fruit.] In bot., the quadruple spore of 
some algals. Imp. Diet. 
glome 1 !, glombet, * Middle English forms 
of gloom or glum. 
glome 2 (glom), n. [< L. glomus, a ball or clue 
of yarn, etc., akin to globus, a ball: see globe.] 
1. A bottom of thread. Halliwell. [Pro v. Eng.] 
2. In bot., same as glomerule, 2 (6). 
glomerate (glom'e-rat), v. ; pret. and pp. glom- 
eratetl, ppr. glomerating. [< L. glomeratus, pp. 
of glomerare (> Pg. glomerar = OF. glomerer), 
wind or form into a ball, gather into a round 
heap, < glomus (glomer-), a ball or clue of yarn, 
etc. : see glome 2 .] I. trans. To gather or wind 
into a ball; collect into a spherical form or 
mass, as threads ; conglomerate. [Rare.] 
Il.t intrans. To wind; twist. 
A river which, from Caucasus, after many glomerating 
dances, increases Indus. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 68. 
glomerate (glom'e-rat), a. [= Pg. glomerado, 
< Li. glomeratus, pp.: seetheverb.] 1. Inanat., 
conglomerate : an epithet specifically applied to 
the structure of ordinary glands, such as the 
salivary, lacrymal, mammary, or pancreatic: 
opposed to conglobate. See gland, 1. 2. In 
bot., compactly clustered; gathered into a head 
or heap ; growing in massive forms or in dense 
clusters. 3. In entom., gathered in one or more 
spots or lines: applied to dots, punctures, etc. 
glomerationt (glom-e-ra'shon), . [< L. glo- 
meratio(n-), < glomerare, wind or form into a 
ball: see glomerate.] Conglomeration. 
The rainbow consisteth of a glomerativn of small drops, 
which cannot possibly fall but from the air that is very 
low. Bacon, Nat Hist., 832. 
glomerelt, [Also glomerell; ME. glomerel, 
< OF. glomerel (ML. glomerellus, also glomera- 
rius) ; < glomery, q. v.] 1. A pupil in a school 
of glomery attached to the University of Cam- 
bridge in the middle ages. 
The glumerels constituted a body distinct from the 
scholars of the University. 
Mullinger, Univ. of Cambridge, L 226. 
The master of glomery exercised over his glomerells the 
usual jurisdiction of regent masters over their scholars. 
Peacock, On the Statutes. 
2. In old Eng. law, a commissioner appointed 
to determine differences between scholars in a 
school or university and the townsmen of the 
place. Wharton. 
glomerid (glom'e-rid), n. One of the Glomeridce. 
Glomeridae (glo-mer'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Glo- 
meris + -idoi.] A family of chilognathous or 
diplopodous myriapods, having 12 or 13 seg- 
ments of the body, from 17 to 21 legs, and a hard 
chitinous integument. They can roll themselves into 
a ball, whence the name. The species are known as wood- 
lice, pill-worms, and pUl-millepeds. 
Glorneridia (glom-e-rid'i-a), n. pi. A group of 
myriapods. Brandt, 1833. 
Glomeris (glom'e-ris), n. [NL., < L. glomus 
(glomer-), a ball or clue of yarn, etc. : see 
glome 2 .] A genus of millepeds, typical of the 
family Glomeridte. Latreille, 1802. 
glomerous (glom'e-rus), a. [< L. glomerosus, 
round, < glomus (glomer-), a ball or clue of yam, 
etc. : see glome 2 .] Gathered or formed into a 
ball or round mass. Blount. 
glomerulate (glo-mer'ij-lat), a. [< glomerule 
+ -ate^.] Arranged in small clusters. Also 
glomerulose. 
glomerule (glom'e-rol), n. [< NL. glomerulus, 
dim. of L. glomus '(glomer-), neut., a ball or clue 
of yarn, etc. : see glome 2 .] 1. A glomerulus. 
The Spirilla gradually gather upon the surface of the 
clot, often in large groups of twenty or more twisted up 
in a glomerule. Dolley, Bacteria Investigation, p. 220. 
Specifically 2. Inbot. : (a) A cymose inflores- 
cence condensed into the form of a head, as 
in the flowering dogwood (Cornus fiorida) and 
globe-thistle, (b) A soredium. Hoblyn. Also 
glome. (c) In certain Ustilaginece, a cluster of 
spores which cohere together. 
glomeruli, n. Plural of glomerulus. 
glomeruliferous (glo-mer-ij-lif'e-rus), a. [< 
Nil. glomerulus (see glomerule) +"i,.ferre = E. 
bear*.] In lichenology, bearing soredia, or clus- 
ters of cells chiefly gonidia; sorediferous. 
glomerulonephritis (glo-mer^-lo-nef-ri'tis), 
n. . Inpathol., inflammation of the Malpighian 
bodies of the kidney. 
glomerulose (glo-mer'9-los) , a. [< glomerule + 
-ose.] Same as glomerulate. 
Haplogonidia, the most frequent, simple, of a protococ- 
coid form, or sometimes glomerulone (as in granuloso-lep- 
rose thalli). 
Encyc. Brit., XIV. 556. the room. 
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glomerulus (glo-mer'ij-lus), ?(. ; pi. glomeruli 
(-li). [NL.. masc., dim. of L. glomus (glomer-), 
neut., a ball or clue of yarn, etc. : see glome 2 .] 
1. A small ball, as of yarn or something re- 
sembling it. Specifically 2. In anat., a cap- 
illary plexus ; a conglomeration, congeries, or 
rete of minute vessels or nerves, or both ; in 
particular, the vascular glomerulus of the kid- 
ney (see below). 
The clear round spaces, scattered about ; these are sec- 
tions of Malpighian capsules. Some may be seen to lodge 
a granular mass (glomerulus). 
Huxley and Martin, Elementary Biology, p. 152. 
3. One of the powdery masses on the surface 
of some lichens. Cooke's Manual Glomerulus 
arteriococcygeus, the coccygeal arterial glomerule : Ar- 
nold's name of Luschka's gland. See coccygeal gland, un- 
der gland. Olfactory glomeruli, round nests of small 
ganglion-cells In the ventral part of the olfactory bulb. 
Vascular glomerulus of the kidney, a Malpighian tuft, 
the plexus of capillaries of the Malpighian bodies. See 
cut under Malpighian. 
glpmeryt, . [ME., a word found, with its de- 
rivative glomerel, q. v., appar. only in the rec- 
ords of the University of Cambridge ; a var. of 
glamery, glaumery, glamer, glamour, more orig. 
gramery, gramary, etc., used in the deflected 
sense of ' enchantment,' but orig. identical with 
grammar: see grammar, gramary, glamour.] 
Grammar: a form of the word used in the mid- 
dle ages at the University of Cambridge. 
Master of or in glomery, the head of the grammar 
schools affiliated in the middle ages with the University of 
Cambridge. 
glommet, An obsolete variant of gloom and 
glum. 
glonoin (glo-no'in), n. [Formation not obvi- 
ous.] A name given to concentrated nitro- 
glycerin, especially as used in medicine. 
Glonoin was useful in ,J, gr. dose. 
Medical News, LIII. 709. 
gloodt. An obsolete strong preterit of glide. 
gloom (glom), n. [Also m var. (dial.) form 
gloam ; the noun is not found in ME. ; AS. glom 
(found but once), twilight; appar. with noun- 
formative -m (as in bloom 1 , doom, etc. ), < glowan, 
glow (taken in a weaker senso, 'glimmer, shine 
dimly ') : see glow, and see further under gloom, 
'.] 1. Dim, glimmering shade ; deep twilight ; 
cheerless obscurity; darkness: as, the gloom of 
a forest. 
Where glowing embers through the room 
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 80. 
Flinging the gloom of yesternight 
On the white day. Tennyson, Memory. 
Hence 2. A dark place. [Rare and poetical.] 
Where trees half check the light with trembling shades, 
Close in deep glooms, or open clear in glades. 
Savage, The Wanderer, Iv. 
3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; dejection, 
melancholy, sullenness, and the like, or an as- 
pect indicative of such feelings. 
You shall not chase my gloom away ! 
There's such a charm in melancholy 
I would not if I could be gay. Rogers, To . 
She will call 
That three-days-long presageful gloom of yours 
No presage, hut the same mistrustful mood 
That makes you seem less noble than yourself. 
7V/i tt.i/*i;i , Merlin and Vivien. 
4. A depressing or disheartening condition of 
affairs ; a dismal aspect or prospect. 
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevail by turns ; 
the nation loses its relish for peace and prosperity. 
Burke, Present Discontents. 
Commingled with the gloom of imminent war, 
The shadow of his loss drew like eclipse. 
Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Ded. 
5. Ingunpowder-manuf., the drying-oven. =Syn, 
1. Obscurity, Dimness, etc. See darkness. 3. Depression, 
melancholy, sadness. 
gloom (glom), v. [Also in var. (dial.) form 
gloam (glum, and So. gloum, glump) ; < ME. glo- 
men (perhaps < AS. "glomian, implied in the 
verbal n. glomung : see glooming), ME. also (in 
forms which are more particularly the source of 
glum, v.) glommen, gloumben, glowmben, frown, 
look sullen, = Sw. dial, glomma, stare; cf . MLG. 
glomen, LG. glummen, glomen, make turbid, 
glum, turbid: see glum. The ME. verb may be 
of LG. or Scand. origin, but is nit. from the 
noun, AS. glom, twilight: see gloom, n.] I. 
intrans. 1. To appear dimly; be seen in an im- 
perfect or waning light; glimmer; be in dark- 
ness or obscurity. 
She drew her casement-curtain by, 
And glanced athwart the glooming flats. 
Tennyson, Mariana. 
The twilight is glooming upward out of the corners of 
Ilawthorne, Seven Gables, xviii. 
gloomy 
Cloaked and masked this murder glooms. 
Browning, King and Book, I. 31. 
2. To exhibit or produce a somber or melan- 
choly feeling; appear sad, gloomy, or dismal; 
frown; lower. 
It is of love as of fortune 
That chaungeth ofte, and nyl contuue, 
Which whilom wol on folke smyle 
And ffl&ntbe on hem an other while. 
Bom. of the Rose, 1. 4358. 
Now smyllng smoothly, like to sommers day, 
Now glooming sadly, so to cloke her matter ; 
Yet were her words but wynd, and all her teares but wa- 
ter. Spenser, F. Q., VL vi. 42. 
There the black gibbet gloom* beside the way. 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 318. 
'Twas therefore gloomed his rugged brow. 
Scott, Marmion, vi. 17. 
II. trans. 1. To darken, or make dark, gloomy, 
or somber. 
A night that glooms us in the noontide ray. 
Young, Night Thoughts, it 
When dark December glooms the day, 
And takes our Autumn joys away. 
Scott, Marmion, v., Int. 
Still on the tower stood the vane, 
A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air, 
I peer'd athwart the chancel pane 
And saw the altar cold and bare. 
Tennyson, The Letters. 
2. To fill with gloom or despondency; make 
gloomy or sad. 
Such a mood as that which lately gloom'd 
Your fancy. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
gloomily (glo'mi-li), adv. In a gloomy 
; sullenly. 
man- 
ner; dimly; darkly; dismally; 
But chief to heedless flies the window proves 
A constant death ; where, gloomily retir'd, 
The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce. 
Thomson, Summer, 1. 268. 
gloominess (glo'mi-nes), n. The condition or 
quality of being gloomy ; obscurity; darkness; 
dismamess; dejection; sullenness. 
Deep was the dungeon, and as dark as night 
when neither moon nor stars befriend the skies : 
But Charts looking in, a morning light 
Upon that gloominess rose from her eyes. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, vi. 81. 
The English are naturally fancifull, and very often dia- 
posed, by that gloominess and melancholy of temper which 
Is so frequent in our nation, to many wild notions and vi- 
sions, to which others are not so liable. Spectator, No. 419. 
glooming (glS'ming), n. [Also in var. (dial.) 
form gloaming, twilight, in imitation of which 
the E. form has been revived; < ME. *gloming 
(not found), < AS. glomung (once, glossing L. 
crepttsculum), improp. *glommung, twilight, a 
verbal n., presupposing a verb "glomian, < glom, 
twilight, gloom: see gloom, n. and v., and cf. 
gloam, gloaming.] Twilight ; gloaming. [Rare 
and poetical.] 
When the faint glooming In the sky 
First lightened Into day. 
Abp. Trench, To my Godchild. 
The balmy glooming, crescent-lit, 
Spread the light haze along the river-shores. 
Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 
glooming (glo'ming), n. a. [Ppr. of gloom, v.] 
Dim; gloomy; dismal; lowering. 
Whereas before ye satte all heavie and glommyng. 
Chaloner, tr. of Moriae Encomium, sig. A 1. 
His glistring armor made 
A little glooming light, much like a shade. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. L 14. 
A glooming peace this morning with it brings ; 
The sun for sorrow will not shew his head. 
SAot., B. and J., v. 8. 
gloomish (glS'mish), a. [< gloom + -ts/i*. Cf. 
glummish, glumpish.] Gloomy. Davies. 
With toole sharp poincted wee board e and perced his owne 
light 
That stood In his lowring front gloommish malleted onlye. 
Stanihurst, _*neicl, iii. 649. 
gloomth (glomth), n. [< gloom + -*/(.] Gloomi- 
ness. [Rare.] 
The gloomth of abbeys and cathedrals. 
Walpole, Letters, III. 40. 
Strawberry, with all its painted glass and gloomth, look- 
ed as gay when I came home as Mrs. Cornelis's ball room. 
Walpole, Letters, III. 331. 
gloomy (glo'mi), a. [=MLG.firJo)JeA,turbid; as 
gloom + -y l . Cf.glummy.] 1. Thickly shaded; 
cheerlessly obscure; shadowy; dark; somber. 
These were from without 
The growing miseries, which Adam saw 
Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade. 
Milton, P. L., X. 718. 
2. Affected with, characterized by, or express- 
ing gloom ; wearing the aspect of sorrow ; de- 
pressed or depressing ; melancholy ; doleful : 
as, a gloomy countenance ; a gloomy prospect. 
All shall look outwardly gay and happy, and all within 
shall be joyless and gloomy. Bp. Porteous, Works, I. xlii. 
