glue 
glue, a strongly adhesive preparation of caoutchouc dis- 
solved in naphtha or oil of turpentine, with shellac added 
in the proportion of two or three parts to one by weight, 
run into plates and dried : so called because it is unaffected 
by water, and is therefore adapted for use on ship-timbers. 
Mouth or lip glue, ordinary dissolved glue to each 
pound of which one half-pound of sugar has been added. 
It forms solid cakes, which are readily soluble, and for 
use may be moistened with the tongue. Vegetable glue. 
See the extract. 
For 250 grains of the concentrated gum solution (pre- 
pared with two parts of gum [arable] and five of water), two 
grains of cryst. aluminum sulphate will suffice. This salt 
is dissolved in ten times its quantity of water, and mixed 
directly with the mucilage, which in this condition may be 
termed vegetable glue. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 105. 
Water-proof glue, isinglass boiled in milk. (See also 
fish-glue.) 
glue (glo), . ; pret. and pp. glued, ppr. gluing. 
[< ME. gltten, gleipen, < OF. gluer, gluier, gluyer, 
F. gluer, glue, stick together ; from the noun.] 
1. trans. 1. To join with glue or other viscous 
substance ; stick or hold fast. 
Their bowes are of wood of a yard long, sinewed at the 
back with strong sinewes, not glued too, but fast girded 
and tied on. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 37. 
This cold congealed blood 
That glues my lips, and will not let me speak. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 2. 
2. To unite or hold together as if by glue ; fix 
or fasten firmly. 
Let men glewe on us the name ; 
Sufficeth that we ban the fame. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1761. 
The love which to mine own Queen glues my heart 
Makes it to every other Lady kind. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, v. 167. 
She now began to glue herself to his favour with the 
grossest adulation. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
Job kept his eyes fixed on the ground for some time. 
Bam, with his glued to Job's countenance, ran up against 
the people who were walking about. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xlv. 
To glue up, in bookbinding to apply melted glue to (the 
backs of sewed but unbound books). The glue binds the 
sewed sections to the sewed thread and the false back. 
II. intrans. To stick fast; adhere; unite; 
cling. 
In most wounds, if kept clean, and from the air; for 
which the use of plaisters in wounds chiefly consists : the 
flesh will glew together with its own native balm. 
N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, iii. 2. 
He [Sir H. Willoughby] with his hapless crew, 
Each full exerted at his several task, 
Froze into statues ; to the cordage glued 
The sailor, and the pilot to the helm. 
Thomson, Winter, 1. 934. 
glue-boiler (g^'boi'ler), . 1. One whose oc- 
cupation is the making of glue. 2. An appa- 
ratus for boiling skins, hoofs, etc., to obtain 
the gelatinous matter. 
glue-pot (glo'pot), n. A utensil for dissolving 
glue, usually consisting of two pots, one within 
the other. The inner pot contains the glue ; the outer 
is filled with water, the boiling of which causes the glue 
to melt. 
gluer (glo'er), n. One who or that which glues ; 
one who cements with glue. 
glue-size (glo'siz), n. A solution of one pound of 
glue in a gallon of water. Car-Builder's Diet. 
glue-stock (glo'stok), . Materials from which 
glue is to be prepared, as hides, hoofs, etc. 
All stag, tainted, and badly scored, grubby, or murrain 
hides are called damaged, and must go at two-thirds price, 
unless they are badly damaged, when they are classed as 
glue stock. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 66. 
gluey (glo'i), a. [Also gluy, and formerly glewy, 
glewey ; < ME. gluwy, glewy; < glue + -y^.] Like 
glue ; viscous ; glutinous ; sticky. 
To preve it fatte, a clodde avisely 
To take, and with gode water weel it wete, 
And loke if it be glewy, tough to trete. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 
And to the end the golde may couer them, they anoynt 
their bodies with stamped hearbs of a glewey substance. 
Uakluyt's Voyage*, III. 666. 
On this [gum] they found their waxen works, and raise 
The yellow fabric on its gluey base. 
Addison, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 
glueyness (glo'i-nes), n. The state or quality 
of being gluey. Imp. Diet. 
glugt, n. [ME., a var. of clog.] A clod. 
Place of safyr is stones, and the glugyis [L. glebce] of 
hymgold. Wyclif, Job xxviii. 6 (Oxf.). 
Gluge's corpuscles. Same as granule-cells. 
gluing-press (glo'ing-pres), n. In bookbinding, 
a press of simple form which presses freshly 
glued books, and prevents the melted glue on 
them from soaking too far into the leaf. 
gluish (glo'ish), a. [< ME. glewisn, < glu, glew, 
etc., + -ss&i.] Resembling glue ; having a vis- 
cous quality. 
glumt (glum), v. i. [< ME. glomen, glommen, 
glomben, gloumben, frown, look sullen: see 
2549 
gloom, v., of which glum is but another form 
(like gum 1 , another form of gooml), andcf. glum, 
a.] To frown; look sullen or glum: same as 
gloom. 
" Oure syre syttes," he says, " on sege [seat] so hyje 
In his glwande glorye, & gloumbes ful lyttel, 
Thaj I be nummen [taken] in Niniuie & naked dispoyled. " 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 94, 
glum (glum), a. and n. [< glum, v., but per- 
haps, as an adj., of LG. origin. Cf. LG. glum, 
G. dial, gltimnt, gloomy, troubled, turbid : see 
glum, v., and of. glummy, gloomy.'] I. a. Gloom- 
ily sullen or silent ; moody ; frowning. 
And not Athens only, but so austere and glum a gener- 
ation as those of Sparta. Bymer, On Tragedies (1687), p. S. 
Fred was so good-tempered that, if he looked glum un- 
der scolding, it was chiefly for propriety's sake. 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, I. 263. 
Il.t " A sullen look; a frown. 
She loked hawtly, and gaue on me a glum.. 
Skelton, Garland of Laurel, 1. 1117. 
Grlumaceae (glij-ma'se-e), n. pi. [NL., pi. of 
glumaceus : see glumaceous and -aceie.'] In bot., 
a group or cohort of endogenous orders, charac- 
terized by having the flowers solitary and sessile 
in the axils of glumaceous bracts, arranged in 
heads or spikelets, and with the segments of 
the perianth also glumaceous. The seeds are al- 
buminous. It includes the Cyperaceoz and Graminece, in 
which the ovary Is one-celled and the single ovule erect, 
and the small orders Restiaceoe, EriocaulonacetK, and Cen- 
trolipidea;, which have a one- to three-celled ovary and the 
ovules pendulous. Also Glumalei. 
glumaceous (glo-ma'shius), a. [< Nil. gluma- 
ceus, < L. gluma, a husk: see glume.] Glume- 
like; having glumes; belonging to the Glu- 
macece. 
gluma,! (glo'mal), a. [< NL. glumalis, < L. gluma, 
a husk : see glume.] Same as glumaceous. 
Orlumales (gl<?-ma'lez), n. pi. [NL., pi. of glu- 
malis : see glumal.] Same as Glumaceai. 
glume (glo'm), n. [= F. glume = Sp. Pg. It. 
gluma, < L. gluma, a hull or husk, orig. *glubma, 
< glubere, bark, peel, cast off the shell or bark.] 
A chaffy bract or bractlet characterizing the 
inflorescence of grasses, sedges, and other Glu- 
macea!. By some early botanists the term was also ap- 
plied to chaffy segments of the perianth, which are now 
called palece or palets. See cut under Graminece. 
There was a thin film of fluid between the coats of the 
glumes, and when these were pressed the fluid moved 
about, giving a singularly deceptive appearance of the 
whole inside of the flower being thus filled. 
Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 333. 
glumella (gliS-mel'a), n. [NL., dim. of L. gluma, 
a husk : see glume'. 1 } Same as glumelle. 
glumelle (glo'mel), n. [F.,< NL. glumella, q. v.] 
The palea of grasses ; also, the lodicule or scale 
at the base of the ovary. [Not used.] 
glumellule (glij-mel'ul), n. [= F. glumellule, < 
ML. glumelliila, dim. of glumella, q. v.] In bot., 
same as lodicule. 
glumiferous (gl(J-mif'e-rus), a. [< NL. glumi- 
fer, < L. gluma, husk, '+ ferre = E. bear^.] In 
bot., having glumes. 
glumly (glum'li) , adv. In a glum or sullen man- 
ner ; with moroseness. 
They all sat glumly on the ground. 
C. D. Warner, Winter on the Nile, p. 340. 
glummisht (glum'ish), a. [< glum + -ish^. Cf. 
gloomish.] Somewhat glum or gloomy. 
An ilex tree 
With glummish darkish shade bespreddes the same, that 
none may see. Phaer, . Knrid . xi. 
But or the course was set, tyme ware away apace, 
And Boreas breth was blacke, and glummish chill. 
Golden Mirrour (1589). 
glummyt (glum'i), a. [A var. of gloomy : see 
gloomy, and cf. glumpy, glum, a.] Dark; 
gloomy; dismal. 
Such casual blasts may happen as are most to be feared, 
when the weather waxeth darke and glummy. 
E. Knight, Tryall of Truth (1680), fol. 27. 
glumness (glum'nes), n. The condition or char- 
acter of being glum ; sullenness. Trollope. 
glumose (glo'mos), a. [< glume + -ose.] Glu- 
mous. 
glumous (glo'mus), a. [< glume + -ous.] In 
bot., having a glume. 
glump (glump), v. i. [Another form of glum, 
gloom, v.] To show sullenness by one's man- 
ner; appear sulky. [Colloq.] 
glumpish (glum'pish), a. [<. glump + -ish l . Cf. 
glummish, gloomish.] Glum. 
Mr. Tom nil sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittln' his 
brows. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vL 4. 
glumps (glumps), n. pi. [See glump.] A state 
of sulkiness or gloominess. [Colloq.] In the 
glumps, in a sulky or gloomy state ; out of humor. 
glut 
glumpy (glum'pi), a. [< glump + -yl; cf. glum- 
my, gloomy.] Sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] 
He was glumpy enough when I called. 
T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney. 
glumsh (glumsh), v. i. [Var. of glunch.] Same 
as glu it fit. 
glunch (glunch), v. i. [Also glumsh, glumch, an 
extension of glum, v. Cf. glumps, glummish.] 
To frown; look sour; be in a dogged humor. 
[Scotch.] 
An' whan her marriage day does come, 
Ye maun na gang to glumch an' gloom. 
A. Douglas, Poems, p. 45. 
glunch (glunch), n. [< glunch, v.] A sudden 
angry look or glance ; a look implying dislike, 
disdain, anger, displeasure, or prohibition; a 
frown. [Scotch.] 
glut (glut), v.; pret. and pp. glutted, ppr. glut- 
ting. [< ME. gloten, glotten, < OF. glotir, glou- 
tir, < L. glutire, gluttire, swallow, gulp down.] 
1. trans. If. To swallow; especially, to swallow 
greedily. 
And glutting of meals which weakeneth the body. 
Sir J. Cheke, Hurt of Sedition. 
He'll be hang'd yet ; 
Though every drop of water swear against it, 
And gape at wid'st toglut him. Shak., Tempest, 1. 1. 
2. To fill to the extent of capacity; feast or de- 
light to satiety ; sate ; gorge : as, to glut the ap- 
petite. 
There is no grenaunce so grete vndur god one, 
As the glemyng of gold, that glottes there hertis. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11777. 
The ouer busle and too speedy returne of one maner of 
tune [doth] too much annoy & as it were glut the eare. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 69. 
You're too greedy, 
And glut your appetites with the first dish. 
Beau, and Fl. (?), Faithful Friends, i. 1. 
Where famine never blasts the year. 
Nor plagues, nor earthquakes glut the grave. 
Bryant, Freeman's Hymn. 
3f. To saturate. 
The menstruum, being already glutted, could not act 
powerfully enough to dissolve it. Boyle. 
To glut the market, to overstock the market ; furnish a 
supply of any article largely in excess of the demand, so 
as to occasion loss of profit or of sales. 
II. intrans. To feast to satiety; fill one's self 
to cloying. [Rare.] 
Three horses that have broken fence, 
And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. 
Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
glut (glut), n. [In def. 2, < ME. glut, < OF. 
glut, glot, qlout = Pr. glot = Olt. ghiotto, a 
glutton; OF. and It. also adj., gluttonous; from 
the verb.] If. A glutton. 
What glut of tho gomes may any good kachen, 
He will kepen it hymself, & cofren it faste. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 67. 
2f. A swallowing; that which has been swal- 
lowed. 
Disgorging foul 
Their devilish glut, chain'd thunderbolts, and hail 
Of iron globes. MUton, P. L., vl. 689. 
3. More of something than is desired; a super- 
abundance ; so much as to cause displeasure or 
satiety, etc. ; specifically, in com., an over-sup- 
ply of any commodity in the market ; a supply 
above the demand. 
Let him drlnke a littel iulep made with clean water and 
sugar, or a litell small biere or ale, so that he drinke not 
a great glut, but in a lytel quantite. 
Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, 11. 27. 
Husbands must take heed 
They give no gluts of kindness to their wives. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. 
He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut 
of his delights. Sir JR. L' Estrange. 
A glut of study and retirement in the first part of my 
life cast me into this ; and this will throw me again Into 
study and retirement. Pope, To Swift. 
Some of these [springs] send forth such a glut of water 
that, in less than a mile below the fountain head, they af- 
ford a stream sufficient to supply a grist mill. 
Beverley, Virginia, ii. H 5. 
A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. 
Macaulay. 
4. The state of being glutted ; a choking up by 
excess ; an engorgement. [Rare.] 
The water some suppose to pass from the bottom of the 
sea to the heads of springs, through certain subterranean 
conduits or channels, until they were by some glut, stop, 
or other means arrested in their passage. Woodward. 
5. A thick wooden wedge used for splitting 
blocks. [Pro v. Eng.] 6. Naut. : (a) Apiece 
of wood employed as a fulcrum, in order to ob- 
tain a better lever-power in raising any body, 
or a piece of wood inserted beneath the thing 
to be raised in order to prevent its recoil when 
