oiut.def.6c*). 
glut 
freshening the nip of the lever. (6) A becket or 
thimble fixed on the after side of a topsail or 
course, near the 
head, to which 
the bunt-jigger 
is hooked to as- 
sist in furling 
the sail. 7. In 
brickinalcing:(a) 
A brick or block 
of small size, 
used to com- 
plete a course. 
(6) A crude or 
green pressed 
brick. C. T. 
Davis, Bricks 
and Tiles, p. 69. 8. The broad-nosed eel, An- 
guilla latirostris. [Local, Eng.] 9. The offal 
or refuse of fish. 
glutaeus, glutens (glQ-te'us), n.: pi. gluten, 
glittei (-I). [NL., < Gr. y/U>woV, the rump, pi. 
the buttocks.] One of several muscles of the 
nates or buttocks, arising from the pelvis and 
inserted into the femur Glutasus maxlmus, the 
ectogluteeus, the outer or great gluteal muscle, nutable 
in man for its enormous relative size and very coarse 
floor, arising from the sacrum, coccyx, and adjoining parts 
of the pelvis, and inserted into the gluteal ridge of the fe- 
mur. It chiefly forms the bulk of the buttocks, is a pow- 
erful extensor of the thigh, and assists in maintaining the 
erect posture of the body. See cut under muscle . Glu- 
taeus medlus, the mesoglutteus or middle gluteal mus- 
cle, arising from the dorsum of the ilium and inserted into 
the great trochanter of the femur. See cut under muscle. 
Qlutaeus minimus, the entoglutams or smallest and 
innermost gluteal muscle, the origin and insertion of 
which are similar to those of the middle glnteal. In 
some animals certain gluteal muscles are enumerated as 
:>/ nt, ni x primus, gluteeus secundus, glutams tertius, etc., 
not, however, necessarily implying that they are respec- 
tively homologous with the irlciud of man. 
gluteal (glQ-te'al), a. and n. [< gluteeus + -al.'] 
I. o. In anai./'pertaining to the glutsei or to 
the buttocks ; natal.- Grateal artery, a branch of 
the internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal mus- 
cles. Gluteal fold. Same as gluteofemoral create (which 
see, under gluteofeinoral). Gluteal muscles, the glutsei. 
See glutaeus. Gluteal nerves, two nerves, superior and 
inferior, derived from the sacral plexus, and supplying 
the glutei and the tensor fasciae lat;e. Gluteal region, 
the region of the buttocks. Gluteal ridge, the outer 
lip or bifurcation of the linea aspera (rough line) of the 
femur below the great trochanter, rough and promi- 
nent for the attachment of the tendon of the gluteeus 
maximus (largest gluteus). Also called gluteal tuberosi- 
ty. Gluteal vein, the vein accompanying the gluteal 
artery. Gluteal vessels, the gluteal arteries and veins. 
II. n. A gluteal muscle, or gluteeus : as, the 
great, middle, or least gluteal. 
glutean (glo-te'an), a. Same as gluteal. 
With nude statues, seen from the front, the true as- 
pect is constantly gained at the moment of eclipse of the 
glutean muscles behind the continuous line over the hip 
from trunk to thigh. The Port/alia, No. ccxxviL, p. 222. 
gluten (glo'ten), TO. [= Sp. gluten = Pg. gluten 
= It. glutine, < L. gluten (glutin-), also glutinum, 
lue : see glue.'] The nitrogenous part of the 
our of wheat and other grains, which is in- 
soluble in water. On kneading wheat flour in a stream 
of water to remove the starch, the gluten remains as a 
tough elastic substance, sometimes called wheat gum. On 
the physical and chemical character of the gluten the bak- 
ingqualityofflourlargelydepends. Gluten is a mixture of 
at least four different albuminoids : gluten-casein (which 
is similar to the casein of milk), gluten-fibrin (which has 
some resemblance to animal fibrin), mncedin, and gliadin. 
gluten-bread (glo 'ten-bred), n. A kind of 
bread in which there is a large proportion of 
gluten. It is prescribed medicinally in cases 
of diabetes. 
gluten-casein (glo'ten-ka'se-in), . The vege- 
table casein found in gluten. 
gluten-fibrin (glo'ten-fi'brin), n. The vege- 
table fibrin found in gluten. 
gluteofemoral (glij-te-p-fem'd-ral), a. [< NL. 
gluteeus + L. femur, thigh.] Pertaining to the 
buttocks and the thigh. Gluteofemoral crease, 
the transverse fold or crease of the surface which bounds 
the buttock below on either side, separating the gluteal 
from the posterior femoral region, and approximately 
corresponding to the lower border of the great gluteal 
muscle. Also called gluteal fold. 
gluteus, . See gluteeus. 
glut-herring (glut'her'ing), TO. The bluebaek, 
Clupea cestivaUs, an American clupeoid fish 
closely related to the alewife. 
glutin (glo'tin), n. [< glut-en + -i2.] Same 
as gliadin. 
glutinatet (glo'ti-nat), v. t. [< L. glutinatus, 
pp. of glutinare, glue, draw together, < gluten 
(glutin-), glue : see glue, gluten.] To unite with 
glue; cement. Bailey, 1731. 
glutinationt (glo-ti-na'shon), n. [= Pg. gluti- 
nayao, < L. glutinatio(n-), a drawing together 
(used of the closing of wounds), < glutinare, 
2550 glycerate 
glue, draw together: see glutinate.] The act of Whose glutten chekes sloth feeds so fat as scant their 
glutmating or uniting with glue. Bailey, 1731. e y es be 8ene - Surrey, Ps. Ixxiii. 
glutinativet (glo'ti-na-tiv), . [< L. glutina- A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry 
tivus, serving to glue or to draw together, < mlmstr y ln our A ^ s - f 
glutinare, glue, draw together: see glutinate."] gluttont (glut'n), r. [(glutton, n.~] I. intrans. 
Having the quality of cementing; tenacious. To eat or indulge the appetite to excess; gor- 
Bailey, 1731. 
glutiningt, a. [< L. gluten (glutin-), glue, + 
-ing-.'] Gluing. 
These [the beams from the moon] clean contrary, re- 
fresh and moisten in a notable manner, leaving an aquatic 
and viscous glutining kind of sweat upon the glass. 
Sir K. Vigby, Sympathetic Powder. 
glutinose (glo'ti-uos), o. [< L. glutinosus, gluey, 
viscous: see glutinous.'] Same as glutinous. 
glutinosity (glo-ti-nos'i-ti), . [= P. glutino- 
inandize. 
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day ; 
Or glutloniny on all, or all away. 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixxv. 
Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. 
Drayton, Moses, ill. 
II. trans. To overfill, as with food ; glut. 
Then after all your fooling, fat, and wine, 
Olutton'd at last, return, at home to pine. 
', Lucasta Posthuma, p. 81. 
-ess.] A female 
The mutual tempering of either toward a medium glu- gluttpnish(glut'n-ish),a. [< glutton,n. 
tinonty or liquefaction. Silver Sunbeam, p. 67. Gluttonous. [Rare.] 
glutinous (glo'ti-nus), a. [< F. glutineux = Pr. 
Jlutinos JSp. Pg. It.V<U fE glutinosu*, 
CM^SS^n.^S fheValitfo" 
gluel resembling glue ; viscous ; viscid ; tena- 
cious. 
Next this marble venom 'd seat, 
Smear'd with gums of glutinous heat. 
Hilton, Comns, 1. 917. 
All these threads, being newly spun, are glutinous, and 
therefore stick to each other wherever they happen to 
touch. Goldtrmith, The Bee, No. 4. 
2. Covered with a sticky exudation ; viscid. 
He [Gesner] says this [pickerel] weed and other gluti- 
' 
Having now framed then- gluttonish stomachs to have 
for food the wild benefits of nature. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. 
(glut'n-iz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. glut- 
1, ppr. gluttonizing. [< glutton, TO., + -ize."] 
To eat voraciously ; indulge the appetite to 
excess; live luxuriously. Also spelled glut- 
tonise. [Rare.] 
For what reason can you allege why you should glut- 
Ionize and devour as much as would honestly suffice so 
many of your brethren ? Maraell, Works, II. 335. 
And again, oi n-epi r'^v v\rjv SaifLovts, . . . the material 
demons do strangely gluttonize upon the nidours and 
blood of sacrifices. 
... . . . ------- Ilallywell. Melamproncea (1681), p. 102. 
notw matter, with the help of the sun's heat, in some par- , . . . .. 
tlcular months, and some ponds apted for it by nature, gluttonous (glut n-U8), a. [v alt,. glotonous,glo- 
do become Pikes. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 129. ton08,(OF.gloton08,<.glot 
Where God Bacchus drains his cups divine, 
Stretch'd out, at ease, beneath a glutinous pine. 
Keats, Lamia, 1. 
Also glutinose. 
glutinousness (glo'ti-nus-nes), n. The state 
or quality of being glutinous ; viscosity ; vis- 
cidity; tenacity; glutinosity. 
There is a resistance in fluids, which may arise from 
their elasticity, glutinoutnesg, and the friction of their 
parts. Cheyne. 
, < gloton, a glutton: see glut- 
ton, n.] 1. Given to excessive eating; greedy; 
voracious; hence, grasping. 
Seke thow nat with a glotonos bond to stryne and presse 
the stalkes of the vyne in the ferst somer sesoun. 
Chaucer, Boethius, i. meter 6. 
Then they could smile, and fawn upon his debts, 
And take down th' interest into their gluttonous maws. 
Shat., T. of A., ill. 4. 
Extravagance becomes gluttonous of marvels. 
1*. Taylor, Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm, p. 70. 
2. Characterized by or consisting in excessive 
eating. 
The exceeding luxurlousness of this yluttonowi age, 
wherein we press nature with over-weighty burdens, and 
finding her strength defective, we take the work out of 
her hands, and commit it to the artificial help of strong 
waters. Sir W. Raleigh. 
Rank abundance breeds, 
In gross and pampered cities, sloth, and lust 
Ana wantonness, and gluttonous excess. 
Cowper, Task, L 688. 
glutition (glp-tish'on), n. [< L. as if 'gluti- 
tio(n-), < glutire, swallow: see glut, v.~] The act 
of swallowing ; deglutition. [Rare.] 
This, however, does not, as a rule, prevent glutition, and 
in some instances does not even Interfere with it. 
Medical News, IIII. 60S. 
glutman (glut'man), .; pi. glutmen (-men). 
In English custom-houses, an extra officer em- 
?loyed when a glut of work demands assistance. 
uts (gluts), . Same as glut, 8. 
glutton (glut'n), n. and . [< ME. gloton, glo- gluttonously (glut n-us-h), adv. In a glutton- 
toun, gluttin, < OF. gloton, glouton, glutun, F. ous manner; with the voracity of a glutton; 
glouton = Pr. gloto = Sp. gloton = Pg. gloteto = WI J excessive eating. 
It. ghiottone, < L. gluto(n-), glutto(n-), a glutton, gluttonousness (glut'n-us-nes), n. Gluttony. 
< glutire. gluttire, devour: see glut, v. Cf. glut, gluttony (glut'n-i), TO. ; pi. gluttonies (-iz). [< 
.,2.] I. . 1. One who indulges to excess in M f- <jltonie, glotoiinie, glotenie, glutunie, etc. 
eating, or in eating and drinking; one who ( also gl'itenerie glotery), < OF. glotonie, glou- 
tonnie (= Pr. OSp. glotonia = It. ghiottonia). 
gluttony, < gloton, a glutton: see glutton, .] 
xcess in eating, or in eating and drinking ; ex- 
travagant indulgence of the appetite for food ; 
voracity; luxury of the table. 
gorges himself with food ; a gormandizer. 
Alas 1 the short e t hrote, the tendre month, 
Maketh that Est and West, and North and South, 
In erthe, in eir, in water, men to-swinke, 
To gete a glutoun deyntee mete and drinke. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 58. 
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. 
Prov. xxiii. 21. 
2. One who indulges in anything to excess; a 
greedy person. 
He dradde not that no glotouns 
Shulde stele his roses. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 4307. 
Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granvillc. gluy, a. 
The elder Pliny, the most indefatigable laborer, the gly, !'. i. 
most voracious literary glutton of ancient times. 
G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xxi 
3. In zofil. : (a) A popular name of the wol- 
verene, Gulo luseus or areticus, the largest and 
most voracious species of the family Mustelidte. 
Thauh bus glotenye be of good ale he goth to a cold bed- 
dyng. 
And hus heued vn-heled vneisyliche ywrye. 
Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 74. 
For swinish gluttony 
Ne'er looks to Heaven amidst his gorgeous feast, 
But with besotted base ingratitude 
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 776. 
See gluey. 
See gley. [Prov. Eng.] 
[L., etc., < Gr. y^u/crf, sweet, 
, perhaps akin to L. dulcti, sweet: 
see dulee, douce."] An element in some words 
of Greek origin, meaning 'sweet.' In some re- 
cent words this element appears in the form 
li/c- gluco- 
It belongs to the same subfamily. Mustelines, as the mar- - - 
tens and sables, but is a much larger animal, exceeding a Ji~^Sm /~i!o is',,\ . r/ 
tmdger in size, thick-set and clumsy, and somewhat resem- glycelaeum (glis-e-le urn), n. [< 
bling a small bear. It is of circumpolar distribution, in- sweet (m glycenn), + l/aiov, olive-oil. ] 
habiting northerly parts of Europe, Asia, and America, 
The name has been more particularly used for the animal 
of Europe and Asia, from which the American species has 
sometimes been supposed to differ, and is usually called 
A basis 
for ointment, composed of finely powdered al- 
m ond-meal one part, glycerin two parts, and 
. r B * 
, JV lveH '?. P a S. 
the wolverene. They are, however, specifically identical. OlyCCra (gllS e-ra), n. [NL. (cf . L. Glycera, < 
See wolverene. (J>) Some other animal likened to Gr. Thvuepd, a fern, proper name), < Gr. yXvuepof, 
the above Masked glutton, a book-name of one of sweet, < yAtwif, sweet.] 1. The typical genus 
the paradoxures, Paguma larvata, from the white streak n r *U B fomilv (}lni>frii1ir> r i*i\itfitn nf tho 
on tie head and the white eye-ring.- South American SL f q *? , ca ) >tta l g e 
glutton, a book-name of the grison or Guiana marten. North Se a ls an example. Sangny, 1817. 2. 
See Oalictis. =Syn. 1. See epicure. A genus of crustaceans. Haswell, 1879. 
Il.t Of or belonging to a glutton; glutton- glycerate (glis'e-rat), n. [< glycer-in + -ate 1 ."] 
ous. Same as glycerite. 
