| glory | 1. Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown. "Glory to God in the highest." (Luke II. 14) "Spread his glory through all countries wide." (Spenser) 2. That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor. "Think it no glory to swell in tyranny." (Sir P. Sidney) "Jewels lose their glory if neglected." (Shak) "Your sex's glory 't is to shine unknown." (Young) 3. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance. "In glory of thy fortunes." (Chapman) 4. The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven. "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." (Ps. Lxxiii. 24) 5. An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line. This is the general term; when confined to the head it is properly called nimbus; when encircling the whole body, aureola or aureole. Glory hole, an opening in the wall of a glass furnace, exposing the brilliant white light of the interior. <botany> Glory pea, a name given to several species of the verbenaceous genus Clerodendron, showy flowering shrubs of tropical regions. Origin: OE. Glorie, OF. Glorie, gloire, F. Gloire, fr. L. Gloria; prob. Akin to Gr, Skr. Ravas glory, praise, ru to hear. See Loud. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gloss | 1. Bbrightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. "It is no part . . . To set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford." (Hooker) 2. A specious appearance; superficial quality or show. "To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art." (Goldsmith) Origin: Cf. Icel. Glossi a blaze, glys finery, MHG. Glosen to glow, G. Glosten to glimmer; perh. Akin to E. Glass. To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. "The glossed and gleamy wave." (J. R. Drake) Origin: Glossed; Glossing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glossa | Origin: NL, fr. Gr. The tongue. <zoology> The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glossagra | Glossalgia of gouty origin. Origin: Gloss-+ G. Agra, a seizure (05 Mar 2000) |
| glossal | <dentistry> The tooth surface next to your tongue or things mounted on the tooth surfaces next to your tongue. (08 Jan 1998) |
| glossalgia | Painful sensations in the tongue, including a sensation of burning. (12 Dec 1998) |
| glossanthrax | A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue. Origin: Gr. Tongue + E. Anthrax: cf. F. Glossanthrax. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glossata | <zoology> The Lepidoptera. Origin: NL. See Glossa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glossectomy | Partial or total surgical excision of the tongue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| glossic | A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. "Ingglish Glosik konvaiz hwotever proanusiaishon iz intended bei dhi reiter." (A. J. Ellis) Origin: L. Glossa a word requiring a gloss. See Gloss. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glossily | In a glossy manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Glossina | A genus of bloodsucking Diptera (tsetse flies) confined to Africa; they serve as vectors of the pathogenic trypanosomes that cause various forms of African sleeping sickness in humans and in domestic and wild animals. Origin: G. Glossa, tongue (05 Mar 2000) |
| Glossina morsitans | A species originally thought to be the sole transmitter of Trypanosoma brucei brucei, the cause of nagana in central Africa; this species transmits this disease in some regions, but it is not the sole or even always the principal transmitting agent; it is the vector of T. Brucei rhodesiense, one of the pathogenic agents of East African, Rhodesian, or acute sleeping sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Glossina pallidipes | A species that is the principal transmitter of nagana; it also transmits Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Glossina palpalis | A species of Glossina that transmits Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, one of the pathogenic parasites of West African, Gambian, or chronic sleeping sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |