Globule
Glob″ule (?), n. [L. globulus, dim. of globus globe: cf. F. globule.] 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton.These mi...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Globulet
Glob″u‐let (?), n. A little globule. Crabb.
Globuliferous
Glob′u‐lif″er‐ous (?), a. [Globule + -ferous.] Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated...
Globulimeter
Glob′u‐lim″e‐ter (?), n. [Globule + -meter.] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.☞ The method depends on the differences of ti...
Globulin
Glob″u‐lin (?), n. [From Globule: cf. F. globuline.] (Phisiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red b...
Globulite
Glob″u‐lite (?), n. [See Globule.] (Min.) A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.
Globulous
Glob″u‐lous (?), a. [Cf. F. globuleux.] Globular; spherical; orbicular. — Glob″u‐lous‐ness, n.
Globy
Glob″y (?), a. Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular. “The globy sea.” Milton.
Glochidiate
Glo‐chid″i‐ate (?), a.(Bot.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.
Glochidium
‖Glo‐chid″i‐um (?), n.; pl.Glochidia (#). (Zoöl.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
Glockenspiel
Glock″en‐spiel′ (?), n. [G.; glocke bell + spiel play.] (Music) An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giv...
Glode
Glode (?), obs.imp. of Glide. Chaucer.
Glombe
{ Glombe (?), Glome (?), } v. i. To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. Surrey.
Glome (2)
Glome (?), n. Gloom.
Glome (3)
Glome (?), n. [L. glomus a ball. Cf. Globe.] (Anat.) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.
Glomerate
Glom″er‐ate (?), a. [L. glomeratus, p. p. of glomerare to glomerate, from glomus. See 3d Glome.] Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
Glomerate (2)
Glom″er‐ate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Glomerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Glomerating (?).] To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
Glomeration
Glom′er‐a″tion (?), n. [L. glomeratio.]1. The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.2. That which is for...
Glomerous
Glom″er‐ous (?), a. [L. glomerosus, fr. glomus. See 3d Glome.] Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. Blount.
Glomerule
Glom″er‐ule (?), n. [Dim. fr. L. glomus ball.]1. (Bot.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.2. (Anat.) A glomerulus.
Glomerulus
‖Glo‐mer″u‐lus (?), n.; pl.Glomeruli (#). [NL., dim. of L. glomus. See 3d Glome.] (Anat.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
Glomuliferous
Glom′u‐lif″er‐ous (?), a. [L. glomus a ball + -ferous.] (Biol.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.
Glonoin
{ Glon″o‐inGlon″o‐ine } (?), n. [Glycerin + oxygen + nitrogen + -in, -ine.]1. Same as Nitroglycerin; — called also oil of glonoin.2. (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin us...
Gloom
Gloom (glo͞om), n. [AS. glōm twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, ...
Gloom (2)
Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Gloomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Glooming.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, glo...
Gloom (3)
Gloom, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.A bow window... gloomed with limes. Walpole.A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.2. To fill with gloom;...
Gloomily
Gloom″i‐ly (?), adv. In a gloomy manner.