| gladen | <botany> Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially. The European Iris foetidissima. Alternative forms: gladwyn, gladdon, and glader. Origin: AS. Glaedene, cf. L. Gladius a sword. Cf. Gladiole. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gladeye | <zoology> The European yellow-hammer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gladiate | <botany> Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus. Origin: L. Gladius sword. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gladiole | <botany> A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; called also corn flag. Origin: L. Gladiolus a small sword, the sword lily, dim. Of gladius sword. See Glaive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gladiolus | Origin: L. See Gladiole. 1. <botany> A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily. 2. <anatomy> The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gladius | Origin: L, a sword. <zoology> The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gladness | State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. "They . . . Did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart." (Acts II. 46) Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety, and triumph, and it usually expresses less than delight. It sometimes expresses great joy. "The Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day." (Esther viii. 17) Origin: AS. Glaednes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gladwyn | <botany> See Gladen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glafenine | <chemical> An anthranilic acid derivative with analgesic properties used for the relief of all types of pain. Pharmacological action: analgesics, non-narcotic. Chemical name: Benzoic acid, 2-((7-chloro-4-quinolinyl)amino)-, 2,3-dihydroxypropyl ester (12 Dec 1998) |
| glairy mucus | A thick nasal secretion. Synonym: glairy mucus. Origin: L. Phlegm or thick mucous secretion (05 Mar 2000) |
| glama | <medicine> A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude. Origin: NL.;cf. Gr, L. Gramiae, Gr. Blear-eyed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glamour | 1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are. 2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. 3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. "The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley." (W. Black) 4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. "It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight." (Sir W. Scott) Origin: Scot. Glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. Glameggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. Glam-sni weakness of sight, glamour; glamr name of the moon, also of a ghost + sni sight akin to E. See. Perh, however, a corruption of E. Gramarye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glance | 1. A sudden flash of light or splendor. "Swift as the lightning glance." (Milton) 2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. "Dart not scornful glances from those eyes." (Shak) 3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. "How fleet is a glance of the mind." (Cowper) 4. <chemical> A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. Glance copper, calcocite. Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath. Origin: Akin to D. Glans luster, brightness, G. Glanz, Sw. Glans, D. Glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glancing wound | A tangential wound that makes a furrow without perforating the skin. Synonym: crease wound, glancing wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gland | <anatomy> Organ specialised for secretion by the infolding of an epithelial sheet. The secretory epithelial cells may either be arranged as an acinus with a duct or as a tubule. Glands from which release occurs to a free epithelial surface are exocrine, those that release product to the circulatory system are endocrine glands. (17 Dec 1997) |