G L O 
GLOOM, /. C^lomanj, Sax.] Tvv;ii<rht. linper- 
•fedt darknef s; diinialnefs ; obrcurity ; defect ot hg!u : 
Glowing embers through the room, ^ 
Teach fight to countelteit a gloom. Milton. 
Now warm in love, now with’ring in thy bloom, 
Loil in a convent’s iblitary gloom. Pope. 
Cloiidinefs of afpeft ; heavinefs of mind ; fullennefs: 
At tlie briglit’ning orient beam 
Purge off this gloom. Milton. 
7 b GLOOM, v.n. To fliine obfcurely ; as the twi¬ 
light. This Jcnfc is not now in ufe. 
Scarcely had PlKcbus in the glooming eafl, 
Yet harneffed Itis liery-fooled team. Spenfer. 
To be cloudy ; to be dark. To be melancholy ; to be 
fullen.—A glooming peace this morning with it brings, 
Shakcfpeare. 
GLOOM’ILY, adv. Obfcurcly ; dimly; without 
perfect light; difraally. Sullenly ; with, cloudy aipeCt; 
with dark intentions ; not cheerfully.—^See, he comes : 
jiow gloomily he looks ! Doydai. — Gloomily retir'd the fpi- 
der lives. Tlwmfon. , 
GLOOiM'INESS, f. Want of light; obfcurity; im- 
peiihCt light ; difnialneCs. Want of cheerfulnefs ; 
cloudinefsW look ; heavinefs of mind ; melancholy.— 
The glcominefs in which fometiines the minds of the bed 
men are involved, very often ffands in need of Inch 
little incitements to mirth and laughter as are apt to 
difperfc melancholy. Addifon. 
GLOO'MY, adj. Obfcure ; imperfedlly illuminated ; 
slmort dark ; dilmal for want of light.—Tlie furface of 
the earth is clearer or gloomkr, juit as the lun is bright 
or more overcah. Pope. 
Deep In a cavern dwells thedrowfy god, 
Y/hof'e gloomy manhon nor the rifmg fun, 
Nor fetting.'vifits, nor the ligiufome noon. Dryden. 
Dark of complexion : 
That fair fie.ld 
Of Enna, where Proferpine gathering flowers, 
llerfelf a fairer fiow’r, by gloomy Dis 
Was gather’d. Miltcn, 
Sullen ; melancholy ; cloudy of look : 
He on h.is impious foes right onward drove 
Gloomy as night. ^ Milton. 
Heavy of lieart. 
GLO RIED, adj. Illuflrious; honourable ; deco¬ 
rated with glory ;• dignified with honours. Not in ufe. 
Old refpedf, 
As I fuppofe^ toward your once glory'd friend, 
My fon, now captivate, hither hath inform’d 
Your younger feet, while mine caft back with age 
Came lagging after. Milton. 
GLORIFICATION, /. [Fr. from glorify.-] The 
aft of giving glory.—At opening your eyes, enter upon 
the day with thankfgiving for the prelei'vation of you 
the laft■'night, with the glorification of God for the works 
of the creation. Taylor. 
T'o GLO’RI FY, t;. a. \_gbrificr,-'iir. glorifco,l.nX.] To 
procure honour or praife to one : 
Juflice is their virtue : tlrat alone 
Makes them fit fure, and glorifies the tlirone. Daniel. 
To pay h.onour or praife in worfiiip.—God is glorified 
■when fuch liis excellency, above ail things, is with due 
admiration acknowledged. Hooker. —All nations Ihail 
glorify thy name. Pfalms, Ixxxvi. 9. —To praife; to ho¬ 
nour j to extol, i 0 exalt to glory in heaven'; to raife 
to celeftial beatitude.—If God be glorified in liim, 
God -fiiall a!ib glorify Iiim in himfelf, and lhalt ftraight- 
way glorify him. John., xiii. 32.—Whom lie jullified, 
Ciem he alfo glsrficd. Rom. viii. 30.—The foul, being 
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immortal, will, at fome lime or other, refiimc its body 
again in a glorified manner. Ayliffc. 
GLORIG'SA, f. [from the magnificent fplendour of 
its flowers.] In botany, a genus of the dal's hexandria, 
order monogynia, natural order fannentacese, (lilia, 
JuJf.) The generic charafters are—Calyx; none. Co¬ 
rolla : petals- fix, oblong-lanceolate, waved, very long, 
wholly reiex. Stamina ; filaments fix, fubulate, fhorter 
than the corolla, from ftraight patulous ; antiierm in¬ 
cumbent. Pdlillum : germ globular; ftyle filiform, 
longer than the Ftamens, inclined ; fligma triple, obtufe., 
Pericarpium ; capfule fuperior, oval, threc-lobcd, three- 
celled, three-va!ved. Seeds : feveral, globular, ber¬ 
ried, in two rows.— EJfenlial Ctiaraclcr. Corolla, lix-pc- 
talled, waved, reflex ; flyle oblique. 
Species. I. Gloriofa fuperba, the fuperb lily : leaves 
tendril-bearing. TIFis ha.s a long flefliy root of a whir- 
ifli codour, and a naufeous bitter tafte, from the middle 
of which arifes a round weak flem, requiring fupport, 
and with that growing to the height of eight or ten feet; 
leaves fmooth, about eigiit indies long, and one inch 
and a half broad at tlie bale, growing narrower till 
within two inches of the end, which runs out in a nar¬ 
row point, and ends in a tendril. See Botany Plate IV. 
fig. 13. Floivers at tlie upper part of the ftem, from 
the fide, on llender peduncles, hanging down, at firfl of 
an lierbaceous colour, but ch.inging to a beautiful flame 
colour. This fine plant is native of Guinea, as well as 
rile Eail Indies ; and was introduced here in 1690, by 
Mr. Bentick. It flowers iii June and July, but Icldont 
perfects feeds in this country. The flalks decay in au¬ 
tumn, the roots remain inadfive all the winter, and new 
Italks come out in March. The roots and every part of 
the plant are poifonous. 
2. Gloriofa limplex, or fimple-fuperb lily : leaves 
acuminate. Leaves fnioctli, about tliree indies long 
and two broad, ending'in acute points, but having no 
tendril ; tlie flalks as yet have not grown more than two 
feet liigli, but have the appearance of climbing ; the 
leaves have a ftroiig dilagreeable feent on being han¬ 
dled. It is faid to liave a blue flower. The feeds were 
lent to Mr. Miller by MoiiL Richard, gardener to the 
French king at Trianon, and were brought from Sene¬ 
gal by Monl’. Adanfon. Tills plant has not appeared 
ill any of the gardens either in France or England, nor 
was tliere any fpecimen of it in Miller’s Herbarium ; 
it is doubtful therefore what it might have been. 
Propagation and Culture. As thele plants rarely pro¬ 
duce feeds in tliis country, tliey are generally propa¬ 
gated by their roots. Tiiofe of the fiiii fort creep and 
multiply pretty fall, but the lecond has not as yet put 
out any offsets ; but as the plants are young, we cannot 
as yet fay how they may increafe when tiiey are of a 
proper age. Tlieie roots may be taken out of ti e 
ground wJien tlieir flalks are decayed, and preferved in 
iand during the winter f'eafon, but they mull be kept in 
the llove, or a warm room, where they can receive no 
injury from tlie cold ; and in the fpriiig they inuft be 
planted in pots filled with light eartli, and plunged into 
tiie tan-bed in tlie (love ; but others cluile to let the 
roots continue in the ground all the winter, keeping tlie 
pots always in the tan-bed ; where this is praCtil'ed, the 
roots llioLild have very little water in the winter; for 
as they are then in an inadtive ftate, moiflure at that 
time frequently rots the roots. Towards tlie end of 
March, or the beginning of April, their flalks will ap¬ 
pear, when there liioiild be fome tall flicks put down 
by them to lupport them, otlierwdfe they will trail over 
the neighbouring plants, and the firfl fort will faflen to 
the pl.iiits by the tendrils. The flalks of this fort will 
rile ten or twelve feet high, if tiie roots are.flrong, and 
fome of tliem will produce two or three flowers; tliel'e 
nuke a fine appearance in the flove, during- their conti¬ 
nuance, whicii is fcldoiu more than ten days or a fort¬ 
night. In fummer, when t-he plants are growing, they 
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