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GLIMPSE,/. Iglmmen, Dut. to glow.] A weak faint 
liglu.—Tliouliuids of things, which now either wholly 
elcape our apprehenfions, or which our ftiort-fightcd 
reafon liaving got fome faint gli.mpjt of, wc, in the dai'k, 
grope after. Locke. —A quick flaihing light.—-Light as 
the lightning^jg'/OTj/c they ran. Milton. 
My thonghtlefs youth was wing’d with vain deHres; 
My manhood, long uiifled by wand’ring fires, 
Follow’d falfe liglits ; and wlien xhciv glmpje was gone, 
My pride ftruck out new fpangks of her own. Dryden. 
Tranfitory luftre; 
If I, celeftial fire, in auglit 
Have ferv’d thy will, or gratified thy thought, 
One glimbfe of glory to my ifliie give; 
Grac’d loc the little time he has to live. Dryden. 
Sliort fleeting enjoyment : 
If wliile this wearied fiefn draws fleeting breath, 
Not fatisfy’d vvitli life, afraid of death, 
It Imply be thy will that I Ihould know 
Glimpfe o( dcWghx, or paufe from anxious woe; 
From now, from inflasit now, great fire, dilpel 
'I'lie clouds that prefs my loul. Prior, 
A fiiort tranfitory view : 
O friends! I hear tlie tread of nimble feet 
Halting this way, and now hy glimpfe difeern 
itliuriel, and Zephon, through tlie lhade. Milton. 
Tlie exliibition of a faint refcmblance.—No man hatit a 
virtue that he has not i\ glimpfe of. Shakefpeare. 
GLIMS HOLM, one of the fmall Orkney iflands : 
one mile and a half I'outli of Pamona. 
GLPNA, a river of Croatia, which rifes near Creutz, 
and runs into the Lonia. 
GaMNNI'NO, a town of Ruffia, in tlie government 
of Novgorod, on the Mila : twelve miles fouth-eali of 
Borovigi. 
GLIN'LOUGH, a lake of Ireland, in tlie county of 
Leitrim : feven miles north-iiortli-eafl of Sligo. 
GLINSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tcliernigov : eighty-eight miles Ibuth-eaft of Tcher- 
nigov. 
GLJ NT'ZENDORFF, a towui of Germany, in tlie arch, 
duchy of Auftria: five miles north-eaft of EntzerliorfF. 
GLI'NUS, / [yXno;, or yXEifo;, is the name of a tree 
in 'I'lieophralius. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs dode- 
•atidria, order pentagynia, natural order of caryophyllei, 
f ficoideae, /i/) The generic charadlers are—Calyx : 
periaiitliium five-leaved; leaflets ovate, concave, co- 
loured within, permanent. Corolla: none; iieftaries 
often five, ^iat, refembling petals, narrow, fliorter tlian 
the Calyx, unequally bind or trifid. Stamina: filaments 
about fifteen, (fifteen to twenty, G.) fubulate, flat, tlie 
length of the calyx ; antherte erect, upright, comprelied, 
twin. Piftilluni,; germ liiperior, five-cornered; Ityles 
Eve, fliort; ftigmasfiniple; (ftyleone, five-cleft, ) 
Pericarpium : capfiile ovate, five-celled, five-cornered, 
five-valved. Seeds: very many, roundilh, in a fingle 
row under the valves, tubercled, affixed at the bafe to 
a fmall fwelling membrane .—EJfential CIiaraEler. Calyx, 
five-leaved; corolla, none; nedtaries, cloven bridles; 
caplule, five-cornered, five-celled, five-valved, contain¬ 
ing numerous feeds. 
Spcciei. I, Glinus lotoides, or hairy glinus: Item hairy, 
leaves obovate. Root annual; capfule ovate-pyramidal, 
tnin, pufiiiied by the protuberating feeds; partitions in¬ 
ferred in tlie middle ot the valves; feeds affixed by means 
of very long umbilical cords to the central angle of the 
cells: there are about fifty in each cell, kidney-ffiaped 
With a beak, fiudded with thick fcattered dots, ffiining 
and ferruginous5 integument double; albumen Icarceiy 
amy; embryo fpiral. Native of the South of Europe 
and the Levant, 
Glinus diciamnoides: ftem frutefeent, profirate 5 
leaves orbiculafj, lomentofe, flat j calycine leaflets lance- 
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olate, Stems fcarcely tlie fizc of packthread, profrrate, 
difiufed, fomewhatjjranchcd ; brandies alternate, both 
they and the fiems tomentofe at the top, but witli hairs 
lefs dillind than in the firll fpecies ; leaves petioled, 
two or four together, fomewhat ffiarp at the bafe, with¬ 
out veins or nerves, with ftellate hairs fliorter than in 
G. lotoides; peduncles aPthe joints, aggregate, fliort. 
Native of the Ball Indies. 
3. Glinus fetiflorns: ftemflirubby; leaves obovate, 
plaited; calycine leaflets ovate. This has the fame lia- 
bit with the tw'o others. The whole plant is hoary with 
very dole hairs, longer than in the nrll fpecies. Stem 
very much and dichotonioufly branched ; branches dif- 
fufed, jointed, a little thicker at the joints; leaves two 
or four at the joints, acute at the bafe, I'ubretufe ; flow¬ 
ers axillary, feveral; capfule as in G. lotoides. Native 
of Arabia. See AiZoon^; 
GLI'RES, J. l_glh, Lat. from ysAso?, Gr. a dormoufe,] 
The name of the fourth order of mammalia, in the 
ciaffification of I.innssus. See the article Ma.m.malia, 
GLIS,yi [from g/yre, Lat. to grow fat.] The dor- 
moufe ; lo called becauie it is always found fat. Alio 
a tiiilllc, from yAta, Gr. glue, becaul'e of its property of 
flicking to whatever it touches. 
GLIS'CERE, V. a. [Latin.] To kindle; to grow 
light as the fire. Scott. 
GLIS'CERE,/. The paroxyfm, the exacerbation of 
a fever. Scott. 
GLISCHROCO'LOS,/. [from vifdd, and 
pj^oAn, Gr. the bile.] The medical epiilict for bilious 
vilcid excrements. 
GLIS'SAS, in ancient geograpliy, a town of Bceotia, 
with a fmall river in the neighbourhood. Paufanias. 
7 b GLIS'TEN, v.n. Germ. ] To Ihiiic ; to 
fparkle with light. — The ladies eyes gltjlened witli plea- 
lure. Richardfon. 
The bleating kind 
Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glijlening earth, 
With looks of dumb del'pair. Thomfon, 
rci GLIS'TER, v.n. \_glittan. Germ, glijleran, Dut.] 
To fliiiie; to be bl ight.—When the fun ilione upon the 
fliields of gold and brafs, the mountains gZ/cred there- 
witli, and Ihined like lamps of fire, i Mac. vi. 39. 
’Tis better to be lowly born — 
And range witli liiimble livers in content, 
Thau to be perk’d up in a glijlering grief. Shakefpeare, 
GLIS'TER,/ [properly written clyjler, from 
See Clyster. It is written wrong even by Brown. 
^olmfon .— Choler is the natural glyjter, or one excretion 
wliereby nature excludetli another; which, defeending 
daily unto the bowels, extimulates thofe parts, and ex¬ 
cites them unto expulfion. Brown. 
GLIT'NESS, one of the Inialler Shetland iflands, 
on the eaft coafl of Shetland; eleven miles north of 
Lerwick. 
. GLIT'SCHEN, a river of Swiflerland, which runs 
into the lake of Thurn, near Inter Lacken, in tJie can¬ 
ton of Berne. 
To GLIT'TER, v. n. [ghtinian. Sax.] To ffiine; to 
exhibit luflre ; to gleam : 
Before the battle joins from far 
The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden. 
To be fpecioiis; to be flriking.—On the one hand fet 
the mofl glittering temptations to difeord, and on the 
other the difmal eftefts of it. Decay of Piety. 
In glittering feenes, o’er her own heart fevere; 
In crowds collected; and in courts fincere. Young, 
GLIT'TER,/. Luflre; bright Ihow; fplendoiir.— 
Flourilh not too^ much upon the glitter of fortune, for 
fear there ffiouid be too much alloy in it. Collier, 
GLIT'TERAND, Shining; fparkling, A participle 
ufed by Chaueer and Spenfer. 
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