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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.