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  • English Word Glaucic Definition Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.
  • English Word Glaucine Definition Glaucous or glaucescent.
  • English Word Glaucine Definition An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
  • English Word Glaucodot Definition A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.
  • English Word Glaucoma Definition Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
  • English Word Glaucomatous Definition Having the nature of glaucoma.
  • English Word Glaucometer Definition See Gleucometer.
  • English Word Glauconite Definition The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.
  • English Word Glaucophane Definition A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.
  • English Word Glaucosis Definition Same as Glaucoma.
  • English Word Glaucous Definition Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.
  • English Word Glaucous Definition Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.
  • English Word Glaucus Definition A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
  • English Word Glaum Definition To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
  • English Word Glave Definition See Glaive.
  • English Word Glaver Definition To prate; to jabber; to babble.
  • English Word Glaver Definition To flatter; to wheedle.
  • English Word Glaverer Definition A flatterer.
  • English Word Glaymore Definition A claymore.
  • English Word Glaze Definition To become glazed of glassy.
  • English Word Glaze Definition The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.
  • English Word Glaze Definition Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
  • English Word Glaze Definition A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
  • English Word Glazen Definition Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.
  • English Word Glazer Definition One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.
  • English Word Glazer Definition A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.
  • English Word Glazier Definition One whose business is to set glass.
  • English Word Glazing Definition of Glase
  • English Word Glazing Definition The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.
  • English Word Glazing Definition The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.