(522 G L O 
that is, the cloud" which was an ufual token of God’s 
plorioiis prefence, i Kings, viii. ii. Chrift fays to 
Martha, J ohn, xi. 40, “ If thou wouldeft believe, thou 
fliouldert fee the glory of God that is, an admirable 
inflance of the divine power, in raifing thy dead bro¬ 
ther. The miracles which our Saviour wrought, ma- 
nifefted his glory, or his divine power, John, ii. ir. 
“The G LOR Y of the Lord fhall be revealed,” Isa. xl. 5, 
that is, the glorious power and goodnefs of God, fhall 
be manifefled in the deliverance of the Jews from Ba¬ 
bylon, but more efpecially in the redemption of all na¬ 
tions by our Lord Jesus Christ. “Whether ye 
eat or drink, or whatfoever ye do, do all to the glory 
of God I Cor. X. 31. that is, let the glory and ho¬ 
nour of God be habitually and really the chief end of 
all your adlions. 
Among military men, the love of glory gives birth to 
many fplendid, and fometimes toufeful, actions. But, 
if it be not regulated by principle; if the praife of man 
be all, and the approbation, of God and confcience 
nothing, may it not frequently impel to adJions that are 
highly crimina-1 > Falfe ideas of glory have made heroes 
the fcourges of the human race. Hearts that were, 
formed for benevolence, have, by the love of glory, 
been hardened to the commiffion of deeds at which hu¬ 
manity revolts. Murder and devaftation have been 
made the infignia of honour; and the widows’ and the 
orphans’ tears have conflituted the pearls that form the 
hero’s wreath ! 
TbGLO'RY, v.n. [_glorior, Lat.] To boaft in ; to be 
proud of.—Let them look they glory not in mifchief. 
Shakefpeare. 
Thou haft feen Mount Atlas, 
While florins and tempefts thunder on its brow, 
And oceans break their billows at its feet, 
It ftands unmov’d, and glories in its height. Addifon. 
GLO'RYING, _/". [from the participle.] The a< 5 l of 
boafting in any thing; as,-Your glorying is not good. 
GLOS LA FERRIE'RE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Orne, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridl of I’Aigle : eight leagues weft of Evreux, 
and'two north of I’Aigle. 
To GLOSE, v.a. To flatter; to collogue. Hanmer. 
See To Gi.oze. 
GLOSS, f. [o-/o/f, Fr. glofa. It. and Sp. glojfe, Germ, 
glojfa, I.at. yXocraoi^K, of y^a;o•o■«, Gr.] A fcholium ; a 
comment: 
If then all fouls, both good and bad, do teach. 
With gen’ral voice, that fouls can never die; 
’Tis not man’s flatt’ring but nature’s fpeech. 
Which, like God’s oracles, can never lie. Davies. 
Superficial luftre. In this fenfe it feems to have ano¬ 
ther derivation ; it has perhaps fome affinity to glow.— 
Steel glajfcs are more refplendent than plate,? of brafs. 
Bacon. 
Weeds that the wind did tofs 
The virgins wore: the youths, woven coats, that caft 
a faint dim glofs. Chapman. 
An interpretation artfully fpecious; a fpecious repre- 
fentation. This Jenfe feems to partake of both the former t 
Poor painters oft with filly poets join. 
To fill the world v/ith ftrange but vain conceit; 
One brings the fluff', the other ftamps the coin. 
Which breeds nought elfe but glojfes of deceit. Sidney. 
To GLOSS, u. «. [glofer,Yr.'] To comment: 
Thou detain’d Brifeis in thy bands. 
By pricftly glojjing on the god’s commands. Dryden. 
To make fly remarks : 
Her equals firft obferv’d her growing zeal. 
And laughing glofs'd, that Abra ferv’d fo well. Prior. 
To GLOSS, v.a. To explain by comment ; 
G L O 
In parchment then, large as the fields, he drav/s, 
Affurances, big as glofs'd civil laws. Donne, 
To palliate by fpecious expofition or reprefentation.— 
Is this the paradife, in defcription whereof fo much 
glojjing and deceiving eloquence hath been fpent ? Hooker. 
Do I not reafon wholly on your conduft ; 
You have the art to glofs the fouleft caufe. Philips. 
To embellifh with fuperficial luftre : 
The fame ill habits, the fame follies too, 
Glofs'd over only with a faint-like fhow. Dryden. 
GLOSSA'GRA, y. [from yXaa-crct., the tongue, and 
xyox, Gr. afeizure.] A rheumatic pain of the tongue. 
GLOS'SARIST,/. The writer of a gloftary.—Ety¬ 
mology is fo clearly not a neceftary brancli of the duty 
of a glojfarijl, that I truft I fhall be eafily excufed for 
not having troubled the reader with longer or more 
frequent digreffions of that fort. Tyrwhitt. 
GLOS'SARY, f. \_gloJfarium, Lat. glofaire, Fr.] A 
ditlionary of obfcure or antiquated words. 
GLOSSATOR, f. \_gloJJdteur, Fr. irovn glofs .1 A 
writer of gloffes ; a commentator. 
GLOS'SER,/. \_gloJfarius,'Ljit.'^ A fcholiaft ; a com¬ 
mentator. A polifher. 
GLOS'SINESS, y Smooth polifh ; fuperficial luftre. 
GLOS'SING,y. [from the part.'] The adl of ex¬ 
plaining by a glofs or comment. Dryden. 
GLOSSOCAT'OCHUS, f. ^irom yX-Mcceo, thetongue, 
and Kcclex‘^) Gr. to deprefs.] An inftrument for prefting 
down the tongue. A fpatula. ♦ 
GLOSSOCE'LE, y [from yAwo-o-a, the tongue, and 
Gr. a tumour.] An extrufionof the tongue, with 
fwelling. 
GLOSSOCO'MION, f. [from yXaeraot,, the tongue, 
and Gr. to guard.] This word literally means a 
cafe for the tongue of a hautboy ; and by metaphor a 
cafe for a fradtured limb. In mechanics, a machine 
for raifing great weights. 
GLOSSOG'RAPHER, f. Igloffographe, Fr. of glofo. 
graphus, Lat. y’Kuaaoy^a.Cp©-, of yt^uaaa., the tongue, and 
y^xpu, Gr. to write.] A fcholiaft ; a commentator. 
GLOSSOG'RAPHY, f. [yXaco-a, and y^utpu, Gr. 
to defcribe.] The writing of commentaries. 
GLOSS'OMA, y. [from yAwcrcra, Gr. the tongue.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, order mono- 
gynia, natural order rhamni, JuJJieu. The generic cha- 
radlers are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, turbinate, 
four-toothed, fuperior, permanent. Corolla : petals 
four, lanceolate, acute, bowed back ; nedlary a rim 
round the bafe of the ftyle. Stamina : filaments four, 
very fhort ; antherae oblong, almoft united into a cylin¬ 
der, prolonged at the tip into a membranaceous ftrap 
or fcale, gaping on the infide. Piftillum : germ infe¬ 
rior ; ftyle filiform, the length of the ftamens ; ftigmas 
four, acute. Pericarpium : drupe fpear-fhaped, one- 
celled, crowned with the calyx. Seed : fmgle, ovate, 
ftreaked .—Effential CkaraBer. Calyx, turbinate, four¬ 
toothed, fuperior ; corolla, four-petalled ; antherae, al¬ 
moft united, with a membranaceous fcale at the end; 
ftigmas, four. 
Glolfoma Guianenfis, a fmgle fpecies. It is a middle- 
fized ftirub, five or fix feet high, the bark brown, the 
wood yellow, hard, and compadt ; branches jointed, 
four-cornered; leaves oppofite, cruciate, fix inches 
and a half long, and two and a half wide, entire, fmooth, 
thick, elliptic, acuminate, on very fhort petioles. Na¬ 
tive of Guiana, and flowering in September. Votoniita 
is the vernacular name. 
GLOSSOPET'ALUM, f. [Gr. tongue-petalled ; 
each petal having a ftrap or tongue at the end.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order peniagynia, 
natural order rhamni, JuJJieu. The generic characters 
are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, very final!, five¬ 
toothed, permanent. Corolla : petals five, lanceolate, 
fpreading. 
