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Glean (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaning.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr. LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh�u to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand�ul.]
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1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
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To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. Shak.
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2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
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3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
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Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. Locke.
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Glean, v. i. 1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
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And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth ii. 3.
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2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
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Piecemeal they this acre first, then that;
Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. Pope.
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Glean, n. A collection made by gleaning.
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The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden.
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Glean, n. Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.
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Gleaner (?), n. 1. One who gathers after reapers.
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2. One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.
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Gleaning, n. The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
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Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
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Gleba (?), n.; pl. Glebæ (#). [L., a clod.] (Bot.) The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.
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Glebe (?), n. [F. glèbe, L. gleba, glaeba, clod, land, soil.] 1. A lump; a clod.
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2. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
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Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. Milton.
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3. (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
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Glebeless, a. Having no glebe.
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Glebosity (?), n. The quality of being glebous. [R.]

{ Glebous (?), Gleby (?), } a. [Cf. L. glaebosus cloddy.] Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. “Gleby land.” Prior.
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Glede (glēd), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gleða, Sw. glada. Cf. , v. i.] (Zoöl.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
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Glede, n. [See .] A live coal. [Archaic]
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The cruel ire, red as any glede. Chaucer.
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Glee (glē), n. [OE. gle, gleo, AS. gleów, gleó, akin to Icel. glȳ: cf. Gr. � joke, jest.]
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1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.
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3. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
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Glee club. A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc.
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Gleed (glēd), n. [AS. glēd, fr. glōwan to glow as a fire; akin to D. gloed, G. glut, Icel. glōð. See , v. i.] A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.
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Gleeful (?), a. Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.
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Gleek (?), n. [Prob. fr. Icel. leika to play, play a trick on, with the prefix ge-; akin to AS. gelācan, Sw. leka to play, Dan. lege.]
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1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.]
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Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ? Shak.
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2. [Cf. ] An enticing look or glance. [Obs.]
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A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl.
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Gleek, v. i. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.
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Gleek, n. [OF. glic, G. glück, fortune. See .]
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1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [Obs.] Pepys. Evelyn.
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2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [Obs.]
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Gleeman (?), n.; pl. Gleemen (#). [Glee + man; AS. gleóman.] A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.
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Gleen (?), v. i. [Cf. , .] To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] Prior.
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Gleesome (?), a. Merry; joyous; gleeful.
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Gleet (?), n. [OE. glette, glet, glat, mucus, pus, filth, OF. glete.] (Med.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.
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Gleet, v. i. 1. To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.
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2. To flow slowly, as water. Cheyne.
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Gleety (?), a. Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.
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Gleg (?), a. [Icel. glöggr.] Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Gleire (?), Gleyre, n. See . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Glen (?), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael. gleann valley, glen.] A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.
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And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.

{ Glengarry (?), n., or Glengarry bonnet (?) }. [Name of a valley in Scotland.] A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.

The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet. L. Hutton.
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{ Glenlivat (?), Glenlivet (?), } n. A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.
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Glenoid (?), a. [Gr. �; � socket of a joint + e'i^dos form; cf. F. glénoïde.] (Anat.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
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Glenoidal (?), a. (Anat.) Glenoid.
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Glent (?), n. & v. See .
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Gleucometer (?), n. [Gr. � must + -meter: cf. F. gleucomètre.] An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
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Glew (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Gley (?), v. i. [OE. gliȝen, glien, gleien, to shine, to squint; cf. Icel. gljā to glitter.] To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. [Scot.] Jamieson.
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Gley (?), adv. Asquint; askance; obliquely.
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Gliadin (?), n. [Gr. � glue: cf. F. gliadine.] (Chem.) Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.
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Glib (glĭb), a. [Compar. Glibber (glĭbbẽr); superl. Glibbest (glĭbbĕst).] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.]
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1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
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2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
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I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not. Shak.

Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
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Glib, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]
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The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser.
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Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.
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Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.
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Glibbery (?), a. 1. Slippery; changeable. [Obs.]
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My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't. Marston.
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2. Moving easily; nimble; voluble. [Obs.]
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Thy lubrical and glibbery muse. B. Jonson.
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Glibly, adv. In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.
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Glibness, n. The quality of being glib.
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Glicke (?), n. [Cf. , n., 2, and Ir. & Gael. glic wise, cunning, crafty.] An ogling look. [Obs.]
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Glidden (?), obs. p. p. of . Chaucer.

{ Glidder (?), Gliddery (?), } a. [Cf. .] Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.]
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Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.
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Glide (?), n. (Zoöl.) The glede or kite.
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Glide, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided; p. pr. & vb. n. Gliding.] [AS. glīdan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. glītan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.]
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1. To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.
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The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.
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2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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3. (Aëronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.
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Glide, n. 1. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
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They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts,
With rapid glide, along the leaning line. Thomson.
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Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
And with indented glides did slip away. Shak.
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2. (Phon.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 18, 97, 191).
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☞ The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 17, 95.
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3. (Aëronautics) Movement of a glider, aëroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.
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Gliden (?), obs. p. p. of . Chaucer.
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Glide path (?), n. (Aeronautics) the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide slope.
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Glider (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, glides.
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2. a heavier-than-air flying machine similar to an airplane, but without an engine. It is typically towed to a high altitide by a powered aircraft and then glides to earth with no other source of power.
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3. a type of seat used on porches or in gardens, which is mounted on a frame so that it may glide forward and backward.
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Glide slope (?), n. (Aeronautics) 1. the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide path.
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2. The path indicated by a radio beacon as the proper path for an airplane to use in approaching a landing strip.
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Gliding angle. (Aëronautics) The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.
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Glidingly, adv. In a gliding manner.
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Gliding machine. (Aëronautics) A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
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Gliff (?), n. [Cf. OE. gliffen, gliften, to look with fear at.] 1. A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.
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2. A moment: as, for a gliff. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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Glike (?), n. [See a jest.] A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]
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Glim (?), n. 1. Brightness; splendor. [Obs.]
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2. A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens.
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Coloq. Douse the glim , put out the light. [Slang]
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Glimmer (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See a ray, and cf. .] To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
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The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak.

Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See , .
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Glimmer, n. 1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
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Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson.
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2. Mica. See . Woodsward.
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Coloq. Glimmer gowk , an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.
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Glimmering, n. 1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.
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2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
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glimmery adj. shining softly and intermittently.
Syn. -- glimmering.
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Glimpse (?), n. [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]
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1. A sudden flash; transient luster.
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LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton.
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2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
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Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen. S. Rogers.
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3. A faint idea; an inkling.
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Glimpse (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimpsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing.] to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.
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Glimpse, v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
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Some glimpsing and no perfect sight. Chaucer.
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Glint (glĭnt), n. [OE. glent.] A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] “He saw a glint of light.” Ramsay.
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Glint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting.] [OE. glenten. Cf. , v. i., , v. i.] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns.
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Glint, v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.
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glinting adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; as, glinting eyes; glinting water.
Syn. -- aglitter(predicate), fulgid, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, scintillescent, sparkling(prenominal), sparkly.
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Glioma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � glue + -oma.] (Med.) A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
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Glires (?), n. pl. [L., dormice.] (Zoöl.) An order of mammals; the Rodentia. -- Glirine (#), a.
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Gliridae n. A natural family of rodents including the dormice and other Old World forms.
Syn. -- family Gliridae.
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Glis n. The type genus of the Gliridae.
Syn. -- genus Glis.
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Glissade (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] 1. A sliding, as down a snow slope. Tyndall.
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2. A dance step consisting of a glide or slide to one side.
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Glissando (?), n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding.
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Glissette (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] (Math.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
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Glist (glĭst), n. [From .] Glimmer; mica.
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Glisten (glĭs'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glistening (?).] [OE. glistnian, akin to glisnen, glisien, AS. glisian, glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See , v. i., and cf. , v. i.] To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

Syn. -- See .
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glistening adj. Reflecting light readily or in large amounts; having a surface luster; reflecting light directly rather than scattering it.
Syn. -- glossy, nitid, sheeny, shiny.
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Glister (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glistering.] [OE. glistren; akin to G. glistern,glinstern, D. glinsteren, and E. glisten. See .] To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
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All that glisters is not gold. Shak.
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Glister, n. Glitter; luster.
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Glister, n. [Cf. OF. glistere.] Same as .
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Glisteringly, adv. In a glistering manner.
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glitch n. 1. A fault or defect in a system, plan, or machine.
Syn. -- bug.
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2. (Elect.) A brief surge or interruption in the voltage in an electrical circuit or device.
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Glitter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glittered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glittering.] [OE. gliteren; akin to Sw. glittra, Icel. glitra, glita, AS. glitenian, OS. glītan, OHG. glīzzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, and also to E. glint, glisten, and prob. glance, gleam.]
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1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
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The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.
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2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.

Syn. -- To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See , .
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Glitter, n. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton.
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Glitterand (?), a. Glittering. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Glitteringly, adv. In a glittering manner.
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Gloam (?), v. i. [See , .]
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1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
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2. To be sullen or morose. [Obs.]
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Gloam, n. The twilight; gloaming. [R.] Keats.
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Gloaming, n. [See .] 1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.
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2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.
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Gloar (?), v. i. [OD. gloeren, glueren, gluyeren. Cf. .] To squint; to stare. [Obs.]
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Gloat (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gloating.] [Akin to Icel. glotta to smile scornfully, G. glotzen to gloat.] To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
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2. To gaze with malignant satisfaction; to exult maliciously, sometimes also triumphantly, in another's loss or discomfort; -- usually in a bad sense.
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In vengeance gloating on another's pain. Byron.
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glob n. 1. a compact mass, especially of a semiliquid or viscous substance; as, a glob of glue fell on my shoe.
Syn. -- ball, clod, lump, clump, chunk.
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global adj. 1. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; as, global war; global monetary policy.
Syn. -- planetary, worldwide.
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2. shaped like a globe; spherical.
Syn. -- ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical.
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3. broad in scope or content; comprehensive. Opposite of noncomprehensive.
Syn. -- all-embracing, all-inclusive, across-the-board, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, panoptic, wide.
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4. (Computers) Accessible and effective throughout an entire computer program, rather than in only one subroutine; -- used of variables; as, global variable. Opposite of local.
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Global Positioning System n. (glōb'l p�zĭshŭnĭng sĭstĕm) A worldwide system of electronic navigation in which a vessel, aircraft or missile determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the transmission time from several orbiting satellites. GPS is more precise than any other navigation system available, yielding position accurate within 10 meters 95% of the time.
Syn. -- GPS.

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The precision of the GPS is dependent upon the very high timing accuracy of atomic clocks. Although the military originally intentionally degraded the signal and thus the accuracy for civilian users, GPS was nevertheless more precise than any other navigation system available. In 2000, President Clinton issued an executive order discontinuing the degrading of the signal for civilians.
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On June 26, 1993 . . . the U.S. Air Force launched the 24th Navstar satellite into orbit, completing a network of 24 satellites known as the Global Positioning System, or GPS. With a GPS receiver that costs less than a few hundred dollars you can instantly learn your location on the planet -- your latitude, longitude, and even altitude -- to within a few hundred feet.
This incredible new technology was made possible by a combination of scientific and engineering advances, particularly development of the world's most accurate timepieces: atomic clocks that are precise to within a billionth of a second. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf/web/gps?OpenDocument
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Globard (?), n. [OE. globerde, from glow.] A glowworm. [Obs.] Holland.

{ Globate (?), Globated (?), } a. [L. globatus, p. p. of globare to make into a ball, fr. globus ball.] Having the form of a globe; spherical.
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Globe (glōb), n. [L. globus, perh. akin to L. glomus a ball of yarn, and E. clump, golf: cf. F. globe.] 1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
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2. Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
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3. The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article. Locke.
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4. A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.
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5. A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.
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Him round
A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed. Milton.
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Coloq. Globe amaranth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. -- Coloq. Globe animalcule , a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. -- Coloq. Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Coloq. Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute and form globular heads. -- Coloq. Globe sight , a form of front sight placed on target rifles. -- Coloq. Globe slater (Zoöl.), an isopod crustacean of the genus Spheroma. -- Coloq. Globe thistle (Bot.), a thistlelike plant with the flowers in large globular heads (Cynara Scolymus); also, certain species of the related genus Echinops. -- Coloq. Globe valve . (a) A ball valve. (b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. Knight.
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