G L U 
'Wliofo teacheth a.fool is as one that gliuth a potfiiercl 
together. EccleJ. xxii. 7.—Mofl; wounds, if kept clean, 
and from tlie air, tiie fielh will glut together with its 
own native balm. Derham. —To hold together.—The 
parts of all honiogeneal hard bodies flick togetlier very 
tlrongly ; and for explaining how this may be, foine tell 
us their bodies are gl?ied together by reft. Newton. —To 
join; to unite; to invifeate.—Intemperance, fenfuality, 
and fleflily lulls, do debafe men’s minds, and clog their 
fpirits; link us down into fenfe, and gluexi& to tkofe low 
and inferior things. Tillotjon. 
I hear thee, view thee, gaze o’er all thy charms. 
And round thy phantom my clalpiiig arms. Pope. 
^LU'E-BOILER,yi One whole tr,ade is to make glue, 
GHJ'ER,y. One who cements with glue. 
GLU'EY, adj. Vifeous; tenacious; glutinous.-—It is 
called balfamic mixture, becaufe it is a gluey fpumous 
matter. Harvey. 
GLU'ING, y. The aft of uniting with glue; the 
junfture formed by glue. 
GLU'ISH, adj. Clammy ; vifeous, like glue. Scott. 
GLUM, adj. [a low word formed by corruptingg/uo»j.] 
Sullen; llubbornly grave. 
GLUME, y. \_gluma, Lat. ixom. gluho, to Ikin.] Hufk 
or chaff. In botany, it means the calyx or corolla of 
corn or gralfes, formed of valves which embrace the 
feed, and which is the chaff after threfliing. Seethe 
article Botany, vol. iii. p. 246 and 293. 
GLUM'MEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Nantangen : twenty-four miles fouth of Konigfberg. 
GLU'MOUS, adj. \_gluinoJus, Lat. ixoxxx gluma, chaff.] 
In botany, it is applied to an aggregate flower whole 
bale is provided with a common glume or hufk. See 
Botany, vol. iii. p. 252 and 298. 
GLU'RENTZ, or Glurns, a town of Germany, in 
tlie county of Tyrol, fituated on the river Adige, built 
in 1362, ,and furrounded with walls in 1530: thirty-lix 
miles weft of Brixen, and thirteen weft of Tyrol. Lat. 
46. 44. N. ion. 28. 9. E. Ferro. 
To GLUT, V. a. \_engloutir, Fr. glutio, Lat. to fwal- 
low ; yXv^a, Gr. ] 1 o Iwallow ; to devour : 
’Till cramm’d, and gorg’d, nigh burft 
With fuck’d and glutted oft'al. Milton. 
To cloy; to fill beyond fufficiency; to fate; to difguft. 
—The ambalfador,” making his oration, did fo magnify 
the king and queen, as was enough to glut the hearers. 
Bacon. 
The fickle ear foon glutltd with the found. 
Condemn’d eternal changes to purfue. 
Tir’d with the laft, and eager of the new. Pope. 
To feaft or delight even to fatiety.—With death’s car. 
cafe g/tii the grave. Milton. 
A fylvan feene, which, riling by degrees, 
Leads up the eye below, mr gluts the fight 
With one full profpetl; but invites by many. Dryden. 
To overfill; to load.—He attributes the ill fuccefs of 
either party to their glutting the market, and retailing 
too much of a bad commodity at once. Arbuthnot.—To 
faturate.'—The menftruum, being already glutted., could 
not aft powerfully enough to dilfolve it. Boyle. 
GLUT, y. That v^zhich is gorged or fwaliowed : 
Difgorged foul 
Their devilifn glut, chain’d thunderbolts, and hail 
Of iron globes. Milton, 
Plenty even to loathing and fatiety.—let him but fet 
the one in balance againft the other, and he fhall'find 
himfelf miferable, even in the very gto of his delights. 
VEJirange. 
So death 
Shall be deceiv’d hisg&j; and with us two 
Be forc’d to latisfy his rav’uous^maw. » 
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G L U 62J 
Mote than enough ; overmuch.—If you pour a glut of 
water upon a bottle, it receives little of it. Benjonfon. —^ 
Any thing that fills up a pafl'age.—The water lome lup- 
pofe to pafs from the bottom of the fea to the Jieads of 
Iprings, until they, by iome glut, flop, arrefted in their 
paffage. Woodward. 
GLU'TA, y. In botany, a genus of the clafs pentam 
dria, order monogynia. The generic charafters are— 
Calyx: perianthiu'm on,e-leafed, very thinly membra¬ 
naceous, bcll-fliaped, obtufe, fiiorter than the germ, de¬ 
ciduous. Corolla: petals five, lanceolate, longer than 
the calyx, fpreading at the top, but below as far as the 
middle glued to the column of tlve germ. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five, briftle-ftiaped, of a middling length, inferted 
into the tip of the column; antherae verfatile, roundifti. 
Piftillum : germ obovate, fitting on an oblong column; 
ftyle filiform, of a middling length ; ftigma fimple.— 
EJfential CharaBer. Calyx bell-fliaped, deciduous; petals 
five, glued at the bottom to the column of the germ ; 
filaments inferted into the tip of the column; germ 
fitting on an oblong column. 
Gluta benghas, a folitary fpecies. It is a tree, with 
branches leafy at the end. Leaves alternate, feflile, 
broad-lanceolate, about a foot in length, veined, naked ; 
on the flowering branches only a baud long, more obtufe 
and crowded. Panicle terminating, peduncled, with 
flowers the fize of tliofe of the cabbage. FriRlification 
Angular; and, if we were to fuppofe the petals to be 
feparated from the column, the iituation of the ftamens 
would be as in Palfiflora. Native of Java. Compare it 
v/ith Helifteres, Sterciiles, &c. and obferve whether the 
fruit be one-cel led, as in Paffi flora, or many-celled, as 
in Helifteres, &c. 
GLUT^'US,y. [from yAsro?, Gr. the buttocks.] 
Belonging to the buttocks. The name of the mufcles 
wliofe office is to extend the thigh. See An.atomy. 
GLU'TEN,y [Latin.] The glue of vegetables.— 
See the article .Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 342. 
To GLU'TINATE, v.n. \_glutinatiim,, L<.tt.'\ To glue 
or ftick together. 
GLUTINA'TION, y. A glueing together. 
GLU'TINATI VE, adj. \_glutineux, Fr. of glutinofus, 
Lat.] That (ticks like glue ; clammy. 
GLUTINOS'ITY,y Glueinefs. 
GLUTINOUS, adj. ^glutineux, Fr. ixoxa gluten, Lat.] 
Gluey ; vifeous ; tenacious.—Nourifliment too vifeid 
and glutinous to be fubdued by the vital force. Arbuthnot 
on Aliments. 
GLU'TINOUSNESS,y. Vifeofity; tenacity.—There 
is a reliftance in fluids, which may arife from their elaf- 
ticity, glutinoujnejs, and the Inftion ot their parts. Cheyne. 
GLUTTON, y. \_glouton, Fr. from glutio, Lat. to 
fwallow.] One who indulges himfelf too much in eat¬ 
ing.—The Chinefe eat horie-flefli at this day, and fome 
gluttons have cats-flefh baked. Bacon. —One eager of any 
thing to excefs : . 
The reft bring home in ftate the happy pair 
To that laft feene of blifs, and leave them there ; 
All thofe free joys infatiably to prove, 
With which rich beauty feafts the glutton love. Cowley, 
To GLUTTONIZE, v.n. To play the glutton; t©, 
be luxurious. 
GLUTTONOUS, adj. Given to exceffive feeding; 
delighted overmuch with food: 
Well obferve 
The rule of not too much, by temperance taught 
In what thou eat’ft and drink’ft; feeking from thence 
Due nouriftiment, no delight. Milton, 
, GLUTTONOUSLY, adv. With the voracity of a 
gllUtOlK 
GLUTTONY, y. \_gloutonie, Ex.ixoraglutton.']jExeth 
of eating; luxury of the tahlc.—Gluttony, a vice in a 
great fortune, ,a cuvfe in a fraall. Holiday, 
7 X. 
Milton^ 
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