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- English Word Gleucometer Definition An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
- English Word Glew Definition See Glue.
- English Word Gley Definition To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
- English Word Gley Definition Asquint; askance; obliquely.
- English Word Gleyre Definition See Glair.
- English Word Gliadin Definition 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.
- English Word Glib Definition Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
- English Word Glib Definition Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
- English Word Glib Definition To make glib.
- English Word Glib Definition A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
- English Word Glib Definition To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
- English Word Glibly Definition In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.
- English Word Glibness Definition The quality of being glib.
- English Word Glicke Definition An ogling look.
- English Word Glidden Definition p. p. of Glide.
- English Word Glidder Definition Alt. of Gliddery
- English Word Gliddery Definition Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.
- English Word Glide Definition The glede or kite.
- English Word Glide Definition 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.
- English Word Glide Definition To pass with a glide, as the voice.
- English Word Glide Definition The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
- English Word Glide Definition 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).
- English Word Glided Definition of Glide
- English Word Gliden Definition p. p. of Glide.
- English Word Glider Definition One who, or that which, glides.
- English Word Gliding Definition of Glide
- English Word Glidingly Definition In a gliding manner.
- English Word Gliff Definition A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.
- English Word Gliff Definition A moment: as, for a gliff.
- English Word Glike Definition A sneer; a flout.