glow-worm 
glow-worm (glo'werm), n. [Formerly also 
gloworm; < glow + worm : cf. glowbird and dial. 
gloiobasoH : so called with ref . to the light which 
it emits; cf. the D. name glimworm, lit. 'glim- 
worm,' Sw. lysmask, lit. 'light-worm'; F. ver 
luisant, lit. ' shining worm,' Sp. luciernaga, Pg. 
vagalume, ptjrilampo, lumieira, It. lucciola, etc., 
L. cicindela, Gr. 2a/iirvpif, etc., with similar 
meanings: see Cicindela, Lampyris, etc.] The 
common English name of Lampyris noctiluca, 
a species of pentamerous beetles, of the family 
Lanipyrida: and subfamily Lamm/rime: a name 
applicable strictly only to the female, which is 
wingless, somewhat resembles a caterpillar, and 
emits a shining green light from the end of the 
abdomen. Themale is winged and not phosphorescent, 
resembling an ordinal? beetle ; he (ties about in the even- 
ing, and is attracted by the light of the female. The same 
name is given to other species of Lampyris, as /-. gplen- 
didula. Some related beetles are known in the United 
States &8 fireflies and lightning-buffs. 
You gaudy glow-worms, carrying seeming fire, 
Yet have no heat within ye 1 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, iv. 1. 
Even as the glow-worm, which makes a goodly shew 
among the grass of the field, would be of little avail if 
deposited in a beacon-grate. Scott, Monastery, xvlll. 
Gloxinia (glok-sin'i-a), . [NL., named after 
(iloxin, a German physician.] 1. A genus of 
Stesneraceous plants, low and almost stemless, 
A variety of Glpxinia. 
with creeping rhizomes and large, nodding, bell- 
shaped flowers. There are 6 species, natives of tropi- 
cal America, several of which are very common in green- 
houses, and have given rise to numerous hybrids and va- 
rieties. 
2. [/. c.] A plant of this genus ; also, the gar- 
den name of tuberous-rooted plants of the ge- 
nus Sinningia. 
glozet (gloz), n. [Early mod. E. also glose; < 
ME. glose, a gloss, explanation, specious talk, 
flattery (noun not in AS., but see the verb), = 
D. glos = G. glosse = Icel. glosa, a gloss, explana- 
tion, a banter, taunt, = Sw. glosa = Dan. glose, 
vocable, colloq. taunt, = Sw. glossa = Dan. 
glosse, gloss, = OF. glose, F. glose, a gloss, com- 
ment, parody, = Pr. glosa, gloza = Sp. glosa = 
Pg. glosa, glossa = It. glosa, < LL. glossa (ML. 
also glosa), an obsolete or foreign word requir- 
ing explanation, later applied to the explana- 
tion itself, < Gr. yAZxma, the tongue, a tongue 
or language, an obsolete or foreign word re- 
quiring explanation : see gloss 2 , the same word 
as gloze, n., but directly from the L. The verb 
glose is from the noun.] 1. Explanation; com- 
ment; gloss. See gloss 2 , n. 
And who so leueth noujte this be soth, loke in the sauter 
[psalter] glose. Piers Plowman (B), v. 282. 
Bothe text and glose. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 333. 
Tullie, eloquent in his glows. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 34. 
2. Specious talk ; flattery ; adulation ; idle 
words. 
And natheles men yt trowede [not] and levede [believed] 
not ys glose. Robert of Gloucester, p. 109. 
Now to plain-dealing ; lay these glozes by. 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. S. 
Nor must I 
With less observance shunne gro&se flattery, 
For he, reposed safe in his owne merit, 
Spurns back the gloses of a fawning spirit. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 5. 
3. Specious show ; gloss. 
gloze (gloz), v. ; pret. and pp. glazed, ppr. gloz- 
iiig. [Early mod. E. also glose; < ME. glosen, 
< AS. *glosan (only once, with umlaut, glfsan, 
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whence verbal n. glesung, spelled glesincg), ex- 
plain, gloss, = D. glosen = Icel. glosa, explain 
by a gloss, chatter, = OF. gloser, gloss, ex- 
plain, interpret, F. gloser, gloss, carp at, find 
fault with, = Pr. glozar = Sp. glosar = Pg. 
glosar, glossar = It. glosare, < ML. glossttre (also 
glosare), explain, gloss, < LL. glossa, a gloss: 
see gloze, n., and gloss 2 , n. and i'.] I. trans. 
It. To explain; expound; comment upon: same 
as gloss 2 , v. t., 1. 
Olosynge the gospel as hem good liketh, 
For couetyse of copes construeth hit ille. 
Piers Plowman (A), Prol., 1. 57. 
This tale nedeth nought be glased. 
dower, Conf. Amant., III. 219. 
If a man allege an holy doctor against them, they gloae 
him out as they do the scripture. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 49. 
2f. To flatter ; wheedle ; caress ; coax. 
So wel he couthe me gltae. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 609. 
Than be-gan she to glose Merlin more than euer she 
hadde do euer be-forn. Merlin (E. B. T. 8.), iii. 680. 
3. To put a fair face upon ; gloss over; extenu- 
ate. 
Some glosed those wordes, and some thought in their co- 
rage that the aunswere was not reasonable, but they durst 
not saye agaynst it, the Duke of Olocestre was so sore dred. 
Bernem, tr. of Froissart's Chron., II. cci. 
The fond world, 
Like to a doting mother, gloze* over 
Her children's imperfections with fine terms. 
Chapman, All Fools, ii. 1. 
Short be my speech ; nor time affords, 
Nor my plain temper, glazing words. 
Scott, L. of the L., it 28. 
II. intrans. If. To use glosses; practise gloss- 
ing: game as gloss 2 , v. i., 1. 
Paris, and Troilus, you have both said well ; 
And on the cause and question now in hand 
Have gloz'd but superficially. 
Shak., T. and C., ii. 2. 
2. To talk speciously and smoothly ; use flat- 
tery. 
Who that couthe yluie softe 
And Hater, such he set alofte, 
In great estate. 
Oower, Conf. Amant., III. 170. 
Ladyes, I preye vow that ye be not wroth, 
I can not glose, I am a rude man. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, L 1107. 
He that no more must say is llsten'd more 
Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose. 
Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. 
glozert (glo'zer), . [Early mod. E. also glo- 
ser; < ME. gloser; < gloze + -er l ."\ 1. A glosser 
or glossator ; an explainer. 
It is necessary that I be the declarer or gloser of mine 
own worke, or els your Lordship should haue had much 
labour to vnderstand it. Hakluyt's Voyage*, I. 220. 
2. One given to glossing over things, or putting 
a fair face on them; a sycophantic deceiver. 
False prophetes, flaterers and yloxerx 
Shullen come and be curatours over kynges and erles. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 221. 
Be no glosere nor no mokere, 
Ne no seruantes no wey lokere. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 19. 
glozing (glo'zing), n. [< ME. glosynge; verbal 
n. of gloze, r.] Flattery; deceit. 
With false wordes and wittes ich haue wonne my goodes, 
And with gyle and glosynge gadered that ich haue. 
Piers Plowman (C), vil. 259. 
No theme his fate supplies 
For the smooth glazings of the indulgent world. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 
glozinglyt (glo'zing-li), adv. Flatteringly. 
As also closer, closely, closeness, glosingly, hourly, ma- 
iesticall, maiestically. 
Camden, Remains, Excellence of Eng. Tongue. 
glut, . An obsolete form of glue. 
glubt, v. t. [< ME. glubben, var. of gloppen, var. 
of "gulpen, gulp: see gulp. Cf. glubber.] To 
swallow greedily; gulp. 
Swlche slomerers in slepe slauthe is her ende, 
And glotony is her God with g[l}oppjfng of drynk. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 92. 
glubber (glub'er), n. [Also (/lobber; < ME. glub- 
bere, globbere; < glub + -eri.] 1. A glutton. 
Moche wo worth that man that mys-reuleth his Inwitte ; 
And that be glotouns globbares; her [their] god is her 
wombe. Piers Plowman (B), Ix. 60. 
2. A miser. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. in both 
senses.] 
glue-. In the following words, of recent intro- 
duction, the equivalent of the regular glyc-. 
glucic (glS'sik), a. [< Gr. y/lwd'f, sweet, prob. 
= L. duleis, sweet: see dulce, dulcet, donee.] 
Of or pertaining to or obtained from sugar. 
Glucic add, < Y-'H i -"! an acid produced by the action 
of alkalis or acids on sugar. It is a colorless amorphous 
substance, is very soluble in water, attracts moisture rap 
glue 
idly from the air, and its solution has a decidedly sour taste. 
All of its neutral salts are soluble. 
glucina (glo-si'na), . [NL., < Gr. >/i>/a'f, sweet.] 
The only oxid (BeO) of the metal glucinum or 
beryllium. Pure glucina is white, tasteless, without 
odor, and quite insoluble in water, but soluble in the 11 
quid fixed alkalis. Also glucim and beryllia. 
glucinum (glo-si'mira), n. [NL., < Gr. 7/lmi'f, 
sweet.] Chemical symbol, Be or Gl; atomic 
weight, 9.1. A white metal, of specific gravity 
2.1. It belongs to the group of the alkaline earths, and 
is prepared from beryl (whence it is also called beryllium). 
Native compounds are rare. Besides the common mineral 
beryl, it occurs in the oxid chrysoberyl, in the silicates 
euclaae, phenacite, and bcrtrandite, and a few others, also 
in the phosphates herderite and beryllonite; the last- 
named is a phosphate of beryllium and sodium. Many of 
the salts of this metal have a sweet taste. 
glucohemia, glucohaemia (glo-ko-he'mi-a). n. 
[NL. glucohaimia, < Gr. }?,wcf'f, sweet, +"ai[ia, 
blood.] In pathol., the presence of an exces- 
sive quantity of glucose in the blood. 
glucometer (gl$-kom'e-ter), n. [< Gr. yfaxi'f, 
sweet, + fiirpov, a measure.] An instrument 
for testing the percentage of sugar in wine or 
must. 
glucose (glo'kos), . [< Gr. )<At{'f, sweet, + 
-ose.] 1. The name of a group of sugars hav- 
ing the formula CflH 12 O 6 , which may be re- 
garded as aldehydes of hexatomic alcohols. 
They are less sweet than cane-sugar. One or more of 
them constitute the sugar of fruits, and they are produced 
from cane-sugar, dextrin, starch, cellulose, etc., by the 
action of acids, certain ferments, and other reagents, and 
by processes going on in living plants. The two best- 
known varieties, distinguished by their action on polar- 
ized light, are dextroglucose, dextrose, or grape-sugar, 
which turns the plane of polarization to the right, and 
levoglucose, levulose, or fruit-sugar, which turns it to the 
left. 
2. In com., the sugar-syrup obtained by the 
conversion of starch into sugar by sulphuric 
acid, the solid product being called grape- 
sugar, starch-sugar, diabetic sugar, etc. 
glucosic (gl^-kos'ik), a. [< glucose + -ic.] Per- 
taining to, of the nature of, or producing glu- 
cose. 
According to M. Bulgnet's investigations, the cause of 
the change of the primarily formed cane sugar into fruc- 
tose is not the acids of the fruits, but appeal's to depend 
on the influence of a nitrogenous body playing the part of 
a glucosic ferment R. Bentley, Manual of Botany, p. 783. 
glucoside (glo'ko-sid or -sJd), . [< glucose + 
-wfei .] One of a class of compounds widely dis- 
tributed in the vegetable world, which, treated 
with acids, alkalis, or certain ferments, are re- 
solved into a sugar, an acid, and sometimes 
another organic principle. Tannic acid, for example, 
is a glucoside resolvable into glucose and gallic acid. 
The glucosides may be regarded as compound ethers. 
glucosuria (glo-ko-su'ri-a), n. [NL., < Gr. yXw- 
xt'f, sweet (see glucose), + ovpov, urine.] In pa- 
thol., the presence of glucose in the urine. See 
diabetes. 
glucupicront, . [< Gr. fovifbiriKpov, neut. 
ni'micpoc, sweet-bitter, < yAwctif, sweet, + 
bitter, sharp.] A bitter-sweet thing. 
Our whole life is a glucupricon [read glucupicron], a bit- 
ter sweet passion. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 342. 
glue (glo), n. [Formerly also glew ; < ME. glue, 
glu, glew, < OF. glu, F. glu, birdlime, = Pr. glut, 
< LL. glus (glut-), glue ; cf. gluten (glutin-), also 
glutintim, glue ; glutus, tenacious, well-temper- 
ed, soft, pp. of an unused verb *gluere, draw to- 
gether j akin to Gr. yAo5f, glue, gluten, adj. slip- 
pery, JVUMO, y/U'a, glue.] A viscous adhesive sub- 
stance used as a cement for uniting pieces of 
wood or other material, or in combination with 
other substances to give body or to make roll- 
ers, molds, packing, etc. The glue in ordinary use 
is common or impure gelatin, obtained by boiling animal 
substances, as skin, hoofs, etc., in water. It is also em- 
ployed by textile colorists, for the reason that its solu- 
tions are precipitated by tannicacid, and the precipitate so 
Produced attracts many of the coal-tar colors from their so- 
il inns. In this respect it serves as a flxing-agent for the 
tannic acid ; but as a nitrogenous albuminoid substance, 
it may at the same time act as a mordant. A kind of glue 
is made in Japan from Glceopeltis intricate, which is used 
to stiffen thread, to cleanse and soften the hair, for paint- 
ing on porcelain, and for attaching paper hangings to 
plastered walls. 
Therefore he that keepeth that one only commaunde- 
ment of loue keepeth all. With this glue shall we be fast 
ioyned to Christ, so that he be in us, and we againe in him. 
J. UdaU, On John iv. 
Albumen glue, partially decayed gluten obtained from 
wheat flour in the manufacture of starch. Casein glue. 
See casein. Cologne glue, a very pale strong glue ob- 
tained from offal, which is first limed and then bleached 
with a solution of chlorid of lime. Elastic glue, a prepa- 
ration of glue and glycerin. It is used in the composition 
of printers' inking-rollers, and for making elastic figures, 
galvanoplastic molds, etc. In a glue, in soopwaking, 
of the viscid consistency of liquid glue. W. L. Carpenter, 
Soap and Candles, p. 167. Liquid glue, common glue 
permanently liquefied by treatment with either nitric or 
acetic acid, and put up in bottles for ready use. Marine 
