Webster's Dictionary 1828

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GLUMOUS

GLU'MOUS, adjective A glumous flower is a kind of aggregate flower, having a filiform receptacle, with a common glume at the base.

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GLUT

GLUT, verb intransitive [Latin glutio, Low Latin gluto, a glutton.]1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge.2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; a...

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GLUTEAL

GLU'TEAL, adjective [Gr. nates.] The gluteal artery, is a branch of the hypogastric or internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal muscles.The gluteal muscles, are three l...

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GLUTEN

GLUTEN, noun [Latin See Glue.] A tough elastic substance, of a grayish color, which becomes brown and brittle by drying; found in the flour of wheat and other grain. It contribu...

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GLUTINATE

GLU'TINATE, verb transitive To unite with glue; to cement.

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GLUTINATION

GLUTINA'TION, noun The act of uniting with glue.

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GLUTINATIVE

GLU'TINATIVE, adjective Having the quality of cementing; tenacious.

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GLUTINOSITY

GLUTINOS'ITY, noun The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.

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GLUTINOUS

GLU'TINOUS, noun [Latin glutinosus.] Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue. Starch is glutinous1. In botany, besmeared with a slippery moisture...

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GLUTINOUSNESS

GLU'TINOUSNESS, noun Viscosity; viscidity; the quality of glue, tenacity.

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GLUTTON

GLUT'TON, noun glut'n. [Low Latin gluto.] One who indulges to excess in eating.1. One eager of any thing to excess.Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.2. In zoology, an animal...

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GLUTTONIZE

GLUT'TONIZE, verb intransitive To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious.

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GLUTTONOUS

GLUT'TONOUS, adjective Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; as a gluttonous age.1. Consisting in excessive eating; as gluttonous delight.

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GLUTTONOUSLY

GLUT'TONOUSLY, adverb With the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating.

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GLUTTONY

GLUT'TONY, noun Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.1. Luxury of the table.Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts.2. Voracity of appetite.

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GLYCONIAN

GLYCO'NIANGLYCON'IC, adjective [Low Latin glyconium.] Denoting a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of three feet, a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; as Glyc...

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GLYN

GLYN. [See Glen.]

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GLYPH

GLYPH, noun [Gr. to carve.] In sculpture and architecture, a canal, channel or cavity intended as an ornament.

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GLYPHIC

GLYPH'IC, noun A picture or figure by which a word is implied. [See Hieroglyphic.]

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GLYPTIC

GLYP'TIC, noun [supra.] The art of engraving figures on precious stones.

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GLYPTOGRAPHIC

GLYPTOGRAPH'IC, adjective [Gr.] Describing the methods of engraving on precious stones.

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GLYPTOGRAPNY

GLYPTOG'RAPNY, noun [supra.] A description of the art of engraving on precious stones.

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GNAR

GN'ARGN'ARL, verb intransitive n'ar and n'arl. To growl; to murmur; to snarl.And wolves are gnarling which shall gnaw thee first.[Gnar is nearly obsolete.]

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GNARLED

GN'ARLED, adjective n'arled. Knotty; full of knots; as the gnarled oak.

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GNASH

GNASH, verb transitive nash. To strike the teeth together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth in rage.GNASH, verb intransitive nash. To grind the teeth.He shall gnash w...

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GNASHING

GNASH'ING, participle present tense nash'ing. Striking the teeth together, as in anger, rage or pain.GNASH'ING, noun nash'ing. A grinding or striking of the teeth in rage or ang...

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GNAT

GNAT, noun nat. A small insect, or rather a genus of insects, the Culex, whose long cylindric body is composed of eight rings. They have six legs and their mouth is formed by a ...