glout 
Mrs. Western had changed her mind on the very point 
of departure ; and had been in what is vulgarly called a 
gloutiiuj humour ever since. Fielding, Tom Jones, vii. 8. 
[Chiefly prov. Eng.] 
glout (glout), n. [< glout, .] A sullen or sulky 
look or manner; a 'pout. [Obsolete or prov. 
Eng.] In the glout, in the sulks. 
Mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the 
way. Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, II. 140. 
glove (gluv), H. [< ME. glove, glofe, < AS. tjlof 
(> Icel. glofi), a glove; possibly < ge-, a gen- 
eral or collective prefix (see i- 1 ), + *lof (not 
found) = Goth, lofa = Icel. lofi, > E. loof, the 
palm of the hand : see loof.~] 1. A covering for 
the hand having a separate sheath for each fin- 
ger, and thus distinguished from a mitten. 
Gloves are made of a great variety of textile materials, of 
flexible leather, fur, etc. The form or make of gloves has 
sometimes constituted an indication of the rank of the 
wearer. Particular significance was formerly attached to 
certain uses of gloves, as to the wearing in the helmet or 
cap of a glove given by a lady as a favor or cognizance, or 
of one wrested from an enemy as a challenge ; also to the 
throwing down of a glove as a defiance. See gauntlet^-. 
For he vtterliche leueth the kepyng of hem Ihis hands], 
and neuer but whenne he bereth haukes, ne veseth he 
gloves. Robert of Gloucester, p. 482, note. 
Marie Hamilton 's to the kirk gane, 
Wi' gloves upon her hands. 
The Queen's Marie (Child's Ballads, III. 115). 
When Alencon and myself were down together, I plucked 
this glove from his helm ; if any man challenge this, he is 
a friend to Alencon, and an enemy to our person ; if thou 
encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love. 
Shak., Hen. V., Iv. 7. 
2. Specifically, a boxing-glove. 3. In hat- 
making, a wooden scraper used in felting hats 
in the battery. It is tied to the hand Bishop's 
or episcopal gloves, the gloves which have formed part 
of a bishop's insignia in the Western Church since the 
ninth or tenth century. Also called chirotheca, and in 
older times gwantus (gantm, vantus, wantus, wanto) and 
manica. 
The episcopal glove, with its tassel, or tuft of silk, is well 
seen on Archbishop Chicheley's effigy, in Canterbury cathe- 
dral. Sock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 162, note. 
Glove of mail. See gaunthti. Hand and glove. See 
hand. Hawk's glove, in falconry, a glove worn to pro- 
tect the hand from the bird's talons. See hawking -glove. 
At Hampton Court, in the jewel house, were seven 
hawked gloves embroidered. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 92. 
To bite one's glove, to indicate determined and mortal 
hostility. 
Stern Rutherford right little said, 
But bit his glove, and shook his head. 
Scott, L. of L. M.,vL 7. 
To handle without gloves, to treat without hesitation ; 
deal with in a vigorous manner and without ceremony 
or squeamishness. To take up the glove, to accept a 
challenge. To throw down the glove, to challenge 
to single combat. See under gauntlet^. 
glove (gluv), v. t. ; pret. and pp. glared, ppr. 
gloving. [< glove, .] To cover with or as with 
a glove. 
Hence therefore, thou nice crutch ; 
A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, 
Must glove this hand. Shot., 2 Hen. IV., L 1. 
A Hauke nee esteemes the true burthen of Nobilitie, 
and is exceeding ambitious to seeme delighted in the 
sport, and hane his fist Gluo'd with his lesses. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, An Vp-start Countrey 
[Knight. 
My right hand will be gloved, Janet, 
My left hand will be bare. 
The Young Tamlane (Child's Ballads, I. 121). 
glove-band (gluv'band), n. A strap or ribbon 
formerly used to confine the glove round the 
wrist or arm. They were sometimes made of horsehair 
so woven as to be elastic ; ribbons tied in ornamental bows 
were also at one time fashionable. 
glove-buttoner (gluv'but"u-6r), . A small 
button-hook used for buttoning gloves. Also 
called glove-clasp. 
glove-calf (gluv'kaf ), n. A kind of calfskin or 
morocco leather. See the extract. 
Glove-calf and glove-sheep are also subnames for Mo- 
rocco leather, and are used principally for toppings for 
button, laced, and congress [shoes]. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 525. 
glove-clasp (gluv'klasp), . 1. A glove-band. 
2. Same as glove-buttoner. 
glove-fight (gluv'ftt), n. A pugilistic contest 
in which the hands are covered with boxing- 
gloves. 
glove-hook (gluv'huk), . A hook used in fas- 
tening gloves. 
glove-leather (gluv'leTH'er), n. Leather for 
making gloves. 
glove-money (gluv'mun ; 'i), . A gratuity given 
to servants ostensibly to buy them gloves; 
hence, formerly, extraordinary rewards given 
to officers of English Courts, etc. ; also, money 
given by the sheriff of a county in which no of- 
fenders were left for execution to the clerk of 
assize and the judges' officers. Also glove-silver. 
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glove-of-mail (gluv'ov-mal'), 
let 1 . 1. 
glover (gluv'er), n. [< ME. glover, glovere; 
< //love + -</!.] One whose occupation is to 
make or sell gloves. Other articles of soft leather, 
for dress or ornament, were also formerly regularly made 
by glovers, such as leather breeches, leggings, shirts, bags, 
pouches, and purses. 
We saw among them leather dressed like glouers' lea- 
ther, and thicke thongs like white leather of a good length. 
Ilakluyt's Voyages, III. 100. 
The country was full of the scattered spoil of the mon- 
asteries ; . . . the glover* of Malmesbury wrapped their 
goods in them. J. //. Shorthouge, John Inglesaut, ii. 
Glovers' stitch, (a) The stitch peculiar to the seams of 
gloves. (6) In surg., the continuous suture. 
G-lover's tower. Same as denitrificator. 
glove-sheep (gluv'shep), n. A particular sort 
of sheepskin or morocco. See extract under 
glove-calf. 
glove-shield (gluv'sheld), . A contrivance 
adopted in the sixteenth century for arming 
the left hand 
for parrying 
thrusts and 
blows. It had 
usually the form of 
a nearly quadran- 
gular buckler, from 
8 to 10 inches wide 
and a little longer, 
fixed to a gauntlet 
which could be 
secured round the 
wrist; in this way 
the buckler was 
held firmly, and 
could not be struck 
', r , m f, he , hMld / 
Also called gaunt- 
let-shield. 
Glove-shielJ, .5* century. ( From Violl.t- 
le-Duc's "Diet, du Mobilier francais.") 
glove-silver (gluv'siFver), n. Same as glove- 
money. 
glove-sponge (gluv'spunj), . A finger-sponge. 
glove-stretcher (gluv'strech"er), . A scissors- 
shaped instrument for insertion into the fingers 
of gloves to stretch them, that they may be 
more easily drawn on. Its action is the reverse 
of that of scissors. 
gloving (gluv'ing), n. [< glove, n., + -ing 1 .'] 
The making of gloves; the occupation of a 
glover. 
The gloving brings a large amount of comfort into the 
homes of the peasantry of the west [of England]. 
Library Mag., July, 1886, p. 263. 
glow (glo), v. [< ME. glowen, < AS. glowan 
(pret. gledw, pp. *glowen) = D. gloeijen = MLG. 
gloien, glogen = OHG. gluoen, MHG. gluen, 
gliiejen, G. gliihen = Icel. gloa, glow, glitter, 
shine, = Sw. dial, and Dan. glo, glow (and with 
a deflected sense, Sw. Dan. glo, stare). Hence 
gleed 1 , gloom (gloam, glum), and gloss 1 , akin to 
gloat, glout, glare, glower, and perhaps, remote- 
ly, to glad, glade 1 , glare 1 , glass, glim, glimmer, 
glisten, etc.] I. intrans. 1. To burn with an 
intense heat, especially without flame; give 
forth bright light and heat ; be incandescent. 
Now the wasted brands do glow. Shak.,^1. N. D., v. 2. 
And was to him beholding it most like 
A little spark extinguish'd to the eye 
That glows again ere suddenly it die. 
Drayton, Legend of Matilda. 
Hurrah I cling, clang ! once more, what glows, 
Dark brothers of the forge, beneath 
The iron tempest of your blows? Song of the Forge. 
Hence 2. To radiate heat and light in a 
marked degree; appear incandescent ; be very 
bright and hot. 
A burning sky is o'er me, 
The sands beneath me glow. 
Bryant, Unknown Way. 
3. To feel a more or less intense sensation of 
heat ; be hot, as the skin ; have a burning sen- 
sation. 
The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, 
Playing our games. Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 304. 
4. To exhibit a strong bright color; be lus- 
trously red or brilliant ; shine vividly. 
A Chirche and a Chapaile with chambers a-lof te, . . . 
With gaie glittering glas glowing as the sonne. 
Piers Plato-man's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 122. 
You will but make it blush, 
And glow with shame of your proceedings. 
SAa*., K.John, iv. 1. 
Her face 
Olow'd, as I look'd at her. 
Tennyson, Fair Women. 
5. To feel the heat of passion; be ardent; be 
animated by intense love, zeal,, anger, or the 
like. 
The war's whole art each private soldier knows, 
And with a general's love of conquest (flows. 
Addison, The Campaign. 
glow-lamp 
See gaunt- 6. To be intense or vehement ; have or exhibit 
force, ardor, or animation. 
Love . . . glows, and with a sullen heat, 
Like fire in logs, it warms us long. Shadwfll. 
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight ! 
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 230. 
7. To stare with amazement. [Prov. Eng.] 
Il.t trans. To heat so as to produce color or 
brilliancy ; produce a flush in. 
Pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, 
With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem 
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. 
Shalt., A. and C., ii. 2. 
glow (glo), n. [< glow, v.] 1. Shining heat, or 
white heat; incandescence. 
O Vulcan, what a glow ! 
Tis blinding white, 'tis blasting bright the high sun 
shines not so ! S. Ferguson, Forging of the Anchor. 
2. Brightness of color; vivid redness: as, the 
glow of health in the cheeks. 
A waving glow his bloomy beds display, 
Blushing in bright diversities of day. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 83. 
His face did glow like the glow of the west, 
When the drumlie cloud has it half o'ercast : 
Or the struggling moon when she's sair distrest. 
W. Nicholson, The Brownie of Blednoch. 
Twere pleasant could Corregio's fleeting glow 
Hang full in face of one, where'er one roams. 
Browning, Bp. Blougram's Apology. 
3. A flush of sensation or feeling, as of plea- 
sure, pain, etc.; ardor; vehemence. 
A pageant truly play'd, 
Between the pale complexion of true love 
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 4. 
If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of 
transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will 
mix. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 6. 
A glow of pleasure follows the solution of a puzzling 
question, even though the question be not worth solving. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 617. 
glowbardt, Same as glowbird. 
glowbason (gl6'ba"sn), . A glow-worm. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
glowbirdt (glo'berd), . [Early mod. E. glo- 
bird, glowbard, globard, globerd, etc. ; < ME. 
glouberd, < glowen, glow, + berd, bird, bird. Cf . 
ladybird, the name of another coleopterous in- 
sect; and cf. glow-worm.] The glow-worm. 
Globerde, a flye, ung ver qui reluyt de nuyt. Palsgrave. 
Hec noctiluca, a glouberd. 
Wright, Vocab. (ed. Wiilcker). 
Now the signe common to them both, testifying as well 
the ripenesse of the one as the seednes of the other, are 
the glo-birds or glo-worms, cicindelso, shining in the even- 
ing over the cornfields. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 26. 
glower, glour (glou'er, glour), v. i. [Also glowr; 
a var. of glare, < ME. gloren, a parallel form to 
glaren, glare: see glore, glare 1 .! To look in- 
tently or watchfully ; stare angrily or threaten- 
ingly; frown. 
As Tammie glower'd, amaz'd and curious, 
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
He ... sat in his stockings, with his feet on the stove- 
hearth, looking hugely dissatisfied, and glowering at his 
grandparents. J. T. Trowbridge, Coupon Bonds, p. 203. 
glower, glour (glou'er, glour), n. [< glower, 
glour, V.} An angry or threatening stare. 
What shall I say of our three brigadiers, 
But that they are incapable of fears, 
Of strength prodigious, and of looks so froward, 
That every glour they gave would fright a coward. 
Pennecuik, Poems (1715), p. 22. 
And gave him [a dog] a glower from time to time, and an 
intimation of a possible kick. Dr. J. Brown, Kab, p. 8. 
glowing (glo'ing), n. [Verbal n. of glow, .] 1. 
The act or state of giving out intense heat and 
light. 2. Ardor. 
Persons who pretend to feet 
The glowings of uncommon zeal. 
Lloyd, A Tale. 
glowingly (glo'ing-li), adv. In a glowing man- 
ner; with great brightness ; with ardent heat 
or passion. 
A little stoop there may be to allay him 
(He would grow too rank else), a small eclipse to shadow 
him; 
But out he must break glowingly again. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iv. 1. 
glow-lamp (glo'lamp), . An electric lamp in 
which the light is produced by the incandes- 
cence of a resisting substance (as carbon), in- 
duced by the passage through it of a current 
of electricity. See electric light, under electric. 
While the arc-lamp emits twenty-two hundred candle- 
light per horse-power, and the glow-lamp gives but a hun- 
dred and twenty, it is the possibility of so reducing the 
light to a minimum that has brought the latter system for- 
ward. Science, V. 342. 
