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Mighty dulnefs crown’d, 
Shall take through Grub-ftreet her triumphant round; 
And her Parnalfus glancing o’er at once, 
Behold a hundred Ions, and each a dunce. Pope. 
To cenfure by oblique hints.—He had written verfes 
wherein he glanced at a certain rev'erend dodtor, famous 
for dulnefs. Siuift. 
Te GLANCE, v.a. To move nimbly; to rtioot ob- 
liquely : 
Glancing an eye of pity on his Ioffes, 
Enough to prefs a royal merchant down. Shakefpeare. 
GLAN'CINGLY, adv. In an oblique broken man¬ 
ner ; tranfiently.—Sir Richard Hawkins hath done fome- 
ihing in this kind, but brokenly and glancingly, intend¬ 
ing chiefly a difeourfe of his own voyage. Hdkewill. 
GLAND, f. \_glans, Lat. gland, Fr.] All the glands 
of a human body are reduced to two forts, viz. conglo¬ 
bate and conglomerate. A conglobate gland is a little 
linooth body, wrapt up in a fine fkin, by which it is 
feparated from all the other parts, only admitting an 
artery and nerve to pafs in, and giving way to a vein 
and excretory canal to come out: of this fort are the 
glands in the brain, the labial glands, and teftes. A con¬ 
glomerate gland is compofed of many lit.tle conglobate 
glands, all tied together, and wrapt up in the common 
tunicle or membrane. Quincy. —See the article An.\. 
TOMY, vol.i. p. 527. 
The glands, which o’er the body fpread. 
Fine complicated clues of nervous thread. 
Involv'd and twilled with th’ arterial du< 5 l, 
T he rapid motion of the blood obflrubt. Blackmore. 
GLAN'DAGE, f. Maflage ; the feafon of turning 
Iiogs into the woods ; the feeding hogs with mall. 
GLAN'DERS, f. A fatal difeafe in horfes. Seethe 
article Farriery, vol. vii. p. 252. 
GLANDE'VES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Alps ; formerly flourifhing, and the fee 
of a bifhop ; but the overflowing of the Var compelled 
a great part of the inhabitants to leave the town, and 
to remove to Entrevaux, which was not far from it; 
and it is now almofl abandoned. 
GLAND'FORD BRIDGE. SeeGLAMFORoBRiGGs. 
GLANDIF'EROUS, \_glans&nA fero, Lat.] Bear¬ 
ing rnafl; bearing acorns or fruit like acorns.—The 
beech is of two forts, and numbered amongfl the glan¬ 
diferous trees. Mortimer. 
GLAN'DIUM,yi [from a nut.] A fmall car- 
nous tumour like a nut. 
GLAN'DORE, a town and harbour of Ireland, in 
the county of Cork : three miles weft of Rofs Bay. 
GLAN'DORP (John), a learned philologift, born at 
Munfter. He ftudied under MelaiRlhon at Wittem- 
berg, and diftinguiftied himfelf by his claflical and cri¬ 
tical knowledge. He was made reflor of the college at 
Hanover, which pod, upon fome quarrel, he quitted in 
1555, and retiring to Goflar, was followed by moft of 
Ins fcholars. He had the diredl-ion of the Ichool of 
that town till 1560, when he removed to Marpurg, and 
occupied the profelfors' chair of hiftory in that univer- 
fity. He died there in 1564. Kis works are : i. Sylva 
Carminum Ele^iacorum. 2. Dejeriptio Gentis Anionite. 3. Fa- 
milite Julise Gehtts. 4. Dijlicha Sacra & Mtralia. 4. An- 
notat. in Jul. Cecfaris Commentar. 6 . Annotat. in Ciceronis 
Epiji. familiar. 7. Otwniajlicon Hijloria Romante. 
GLAN'DORP (Mattliew-Louis), an eminent Ger¬ 
man phyfician and furgeon, born at Cologne in 1595. 
Fie ftudied at Bremen ; and then viliting Italy, he heard 
the ledlures of Aquapendente, Spigelius, and Sanilo- 
riu.s, at Padua, and took the degree of dotlor in that 
univeiTity. On his return he fettled at Bremen, where 
he was appointed firft phylician to the archbifhop, and 
afterwards to the city. He was living in 1633, but the 
time of his death is not known. His v/orks are : 1, Spe~ 
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culum Chirurgorum, 1619, chiefly relating to the cure of 
wounds. 2. Methodus.Medenda Pardnychits, 1623, 3. De 
Polypo Narmm, 1628. 4. Gazopkylacium Polyplufum Fonti- 
culorum & Setaceorum, 1633. All thefe were printed to¬ 
gether in London in 1729, 4to. 
GLAN'DULE, f. \_glandula, Lat. glandule, Fr.] A 
fmall gland ferving to the fecretion of humours.—Na- 
ture hath provided feveral glandules to feparate this 
juice from the blood, and no lefs than four pair of chan¬ 
nels to convey it into the mouth, which are called duPlus 
Jalivales, Ray, 
GLANDULOS'ITY, f. A collefition of glands.— 
In the upper parts of worms are found certain white 
and oval glandulojities. Brown. 
GLAN'DULOUS, adj. [glandulofus, Lat. glanduleux, 
Tr. h'om glandule.'^ Pertaining to the glands ; iubfifting 
in tlie glands ; having the nature of glands.—The bea¬ 
ver’s bags are no tefticles, or parts official unto gene¬ 
ration, but glandulous fubftances, that hold the nature 
of emun6tories. Brown. 
GLANDU'LOUSNESS, /. Glandulofity ; a collec¬ 
tion of glands. Scott. 
GLANE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Dordogne, near Aigental, in the department of the 
Correze. 
GLAN'MEN, or Glomme. See Glomme. 
GLANS, f. [perhaps from pbx halon, Heb. an oak. 2 
An acorn ; a chefnut. Alfo the tip or nut of the penis 
is fo named, from its likenefs to an acorn. 
GLANSHAMMAR', a town of Sweden, in the pro¬ 
vince of Nericia : feven miles north.eaft of Orebro. 
GLAN'VILL (jofeph), an eminent Engliffi divine, 
and various writer, born at Plymouth in 1636. His 
early education he received in his native town, whence 
he w’as fent to Exeter college, Oxford, in 1652. In this 
feminary he took his degree of bachelor of arts in 1655 j 
and in the following year he remov^ed to Lincoln col¬ 
lege, where he took his degree of mafter of arts in 1658 ; 
and was about the fame time appointed chaplain to 
Francis Rous, efq. provoft of Eton college, who was 
one of the perfons defigned by Oliver Cromwell to com. 
pofe his new houfe of lords. But this patron dying, 
Mr. Glanvill returned to Lincoln college, where he 
fpent his time till the reftoration of Charles II. in lite¬ 
rary and philofophical ftudies. About this time the 
new philol'ophy, founded upon reafon and experiment, 
was beginning to triumph over the tyranny which under 
the name and authority of Ariftotle had been fo long 
exercifed in the fchools. T o the principles of this phi- 
lofophy Mr. Glanvill was a convert ; and when he had 
juft entered the twenty-fifth year of his age, he wrote 
a treatife in defence of them, w hich was publiffied in 
1661, under the title of. The Vanity of Dogmatifm or 
Confidence in Opinions, manifefted in a Dil'courfe of the 
Shortnefs and Uncertainty of our Knowledge, and its 
Caufes, with fome Refleilions on Peripateticifm, and 
an Apology for Philolophy, i2mo. As the meetings 
which gave rile to the royal focicty of London were 
then frequently held, and encouraged by the moft learned 
men of the times, this treatife proved the means of in¬ 
troducing the author to their knowledge and acquaint¬ 
ance. Mr. Glanvill now entered into orders, and was 
prefented to the reiTory of Vyimbifti, in the county of 
Elfex ; and in 1662 was indiulled into the vicarage of 
Frome-Selwood in Somerfetlhire. In the fame year he 
publifhed, but w’ithout his name, an ingenious dilcourle 
on the fundamental dotlrine of the ancient eallern phi- 
lolophers, wh.ich he endeavoured to prove not contra- 
didlory to, or incompatible with, revealed religion. It 
~was entitled. Lux 0 rientaiis ■, or. An Enquiry into the 
Opinion of the Eatfern Sages concerning the Pre-exift- 
ence of Souls ; being a Key to unlock the grand Myl- 
teries of Providence, in relation to Man’s Sin and Mi- 
fery; i2mo. Upon the eftabliftiment of the royal fociety, 
Mr. Glanvill was encouraged to refume his labours in 
defence 
