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only for the prodiidHons of tlie clofet, but for public 
life, we find liim at tliis period entering warmly into 
tile politics of the city. Such was the credit he gained 
f(jr the extent of his information, tliat he was appointed 
by the London merchants to condudt an application to 
parliament, complaining of the neglecl with w-hich their 
trade had been treated. The fpeech vvliicliThe pro¬ 
nounced at tlie bar of the houfe of commons on this 
fubjedb in January, 1742, was much admired, and ap¬ 
peared from the prefs. Yet, in 1751, he was an unfuc- 
cefsful candidate for the office of chamberlain of tlie 
city of London. In his retirement he wrote the tragedy 
of Boadicea, added at Drury-lane in 1753. It ran its 
nine nights, but is ranked among thofe numerous per¬ 
formances of the kind which are better fitted for the 
clofet than the Ibige. In 1761 he'publiffied Medea, a 
tragedy imitated from thofe of Euripides and Seneca ; 
which was aiSted witli applaufe. He now returned into 
public life, and fat as member for Weymouth in the 
parliament of 1761. Advancing years at length admo- 
niffied him to retire ; and in the bofom of domefiic life, 
wliich he adorned and dignified by his virtues and ac- 
coiqplifliments, he died in November, 1785, at the age 
of feventy-three. In the lalt edition of his Leonidas, 
he introduced great additions, and had extended the 
work from nine books to twelve ; but he was not able 
to revive its popularity. Still attached to the theme, 
he compofed another poem as its fequel, entitled. The 
Atlienaid, relating in thirty books the feries of wars 
between the Greeks and Peifians, which, with poetical 
licence, he regards as vengeance for the death of Leo¬ 
nidas. This was printed in 1788, in 3 vols. 121110. but 
feems totally to have failed in engaging the public no¬ 
tice. He wrote a fequel to liis Medea; but it required 
fuch a magnificence of decoration, that it was never 
ventured at upon the Itage. 
GLOV'ER, a townihip of the American States, in 
Vermont, inOi leans county, north-eali of Crafttborough. 
GLOV'ERESS, J. A woman employed in making 
or felling gloves. 
GLOV'ERS-STITCH, f. In furgery, a particular 
method of fewing up a wound ; being the upward Ititch 
ufed in making gloves. 
To GLOUT, V. 71 . To pout; to look fullen. A low 
word; 
Clouting with fullen fpight, the fury fiiook 
Her clotted locks, and blafied witii eacii look. Garth. 
To GLOW, V. n. [jlojian, Sax. gloeyen, Dut.] To be 
Heated fo as to lliine without flame : 
Not all parts like, but all alike inform’d, 
V\^ith radiant light, as glowing iron with fire. Milton. 
To burn with vehement heat : 
How op’ning heav’ns their happy regions fhow. 
And yawning gulphs with flaming vengeance glozu. Smith. 
To feel heat of body.—The cord hides fwiftly through 
his glowing hands. Gay. —To exhibit a ftrong bright co¬ 
lour.—Clearer Ears glow round the frozen pole. Pope. 
From the mingled firength of fliade and light, 
A new creation rifes to my fight; 
Such heav’nly figures from his pencil flow, 
So warm with life his blended colours glow. Addifon. 
To feel paffion of mind, or aftivity of fancy : 
Let the gay confcience of a life well fpent 
Calm ev’ry thought, infpirit ev’ry grace. 
Glow in tiiy heart, and fmile upon thy face. Pope, 
To rage or burn as a paffion : 
A fire which every windy paffion blows; 
With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden. 
To GLOW ,v. a. To make hot fo as to Ihine. .Not in uje. 
On each fide her 
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like fmiling Cupids, 
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With divers colour’d fans, wliofe wind did feem 
To glow the delicate cheeks whicli they did cool. 
Shakefpeare. 
GLOW, f. Shining heat. Veliemence of paflion. 
Brightnefs or vividnefs of colour.—The red glozu of 
fcoin and proud difdain. Shahefpeare. 
A wavinghis bloomy beds difplay, 
Blufiiing in bright diverfities of day. Pope. 
GLOW'-WORM, f. A fmall creeping grub with a 
luminous tail; for the natural liifiory of which fee the 
article Lampyris. —A great light drowncth a fmaller 
that it cannot be feen; as the fun that of a glow-worm. 
Bacon . 
The man, wlio firfl upon the ground 
A glow-worzn Ipy’d, fuppofing he had found 
A moving diamond, a breathing fcone ; 
For life it had, and like thofe jewels flione : 
He held it dear, ’till by the fpringing day 
Inform’d, he threw the worthlefs worm away. Waller. 
GLOXIN'IA,y. [fo named by I’Heritier, in memory 
of B. P. Gloxin, of Colmar, author oi Ohfer-oationes Botaniccs, 
1783. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, order 
angiofpermia, natural order of perl'onatie, (campanu. 
laceae, yyi) Tire generic charadfers are-^Calyx ; pe- 
rianthium fuperior, five-leaved; leaflets equal, lanceo¬ 
late, ferrulate at the tip, the three upper ones nerved, 
the two lower bent down with tlie neifary, permanent. 
Corolla: monopetalous, irregularly campanulate; tube 
fcarcely any; border oblique, five-cleft, fegments round- 
ifh, the four upper fpreading and entire, the lowelt 
firaight, concave, toothed. Stamina : filaments four, 
witli the rudiment of a fifth, two fcarcely fiiorter, in- 
ferted into the receptacle, faitened to the lower margin 
of the corolla, fickled, pubefeent, converging laterally 
above; antherae ovate, two-celled, peltate, united with¬ 
in the opening of the corolla. Pifiillum : germ inferior, 
turbinate, ftriated ; ftyle filiform, the length of the fia- 
mens ; fiigma capitate, the length of the antherae. Fe- 
licarpium: capfule one-celled (or half-celled) ; recep¬ 
tacles two, oppofite, two-parted, faftened to tlie lides of 
the capfule by the partition. Seeds: Very numerous, 
inferted into the receptacles.— B,Jfential CharaEler . Calyx / 
fuperior, five-leaved; corolla bell-fiiaped, with the bor¬ 
der oblique ; filaments with the rudiment of a fifth, in. 
fel ted into the receptacle. 
Gloxinia maculata, or fpotted gloxinia, the only fpe- 
cies. Root perennial, thick, flefliy, divided into knots, 
which are fcaly, fomewhat like thole of tooth-wort. 
Stems feveral, about a foot high, thick, fucculent, 
purpliffi. Leaves oblong, thick, I'effile, ferrate, rough 
on their upper lide, where they are of a dark green, but 
their under fide is purplifii. Stem terminated by a fiiort 
fpi.ke of blue flowers. Native of South America, w'here 
it was difeovered about Carthagena by Mr. Robert Mil¬ 
lar, w'ho fent the feeds to Europe. Mr. Philip Miller 
cultivated it in 1739. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant rnuft: be confiantly 
preferved in the Itove, and plunged into the bark-bed. 
During tlie winter feafon, much water will rot the roots. 
In the middle of March, jult before it begins to (hoot, 
the roots may be parted, and iranfplanted into middle- 
fized pots, filled with rich light earth, and plunged into 
the bark.bed, which fhould then be renewed with frefh 
tan. When the plants come up, they mufi; be frequently 
refrefiied with water in fmall quantities; and, as the 
feafon becomes warmer, a large ffiare of frefli air Ihoiild 
be admitted. They fhould not be placed where they 
are over-hung or fiiaded by other plants; nor fliould they 
be fiiifted or tranfplanted when they are in leaf, for that 
will prevent their flowering. Since this plant increafes 
very fart by the roots, there is no necefiity for ufing 
other methods to propagate it; otherwife the flioots of 
the young ftalks will take root, if they are planted in 
pots 
