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- English Word Gloze Definition Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
- English Word Gloze Definition Specious show; gloss.
- English Word Glozed Definition of Gloze
- English Word Glozer Definition A flatterer.
- English Word Glozing Definition of Gloze
- English Word Glucic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar; as, glucic acid.
- English Word Glucina Definition A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine.
- English Word Glucinic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.
- English Word Glucinum Definition A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium.
- English Word Glucogen Definition See Glycogen.
- English Word Glucogenesis Definition Glycogenesis.
- English Word Gluconic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose.
- English Word Glucose Definition A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
- English Word Glucose Definition Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
- English Word Glucose Definition The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.
- English Word Glucoside Definition One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.
- English Word Glucosuria Definition A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus.
- English Word Glue Definition A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
- English Word Glue Definition To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
- English Word Glued Definition of Glue
- English Word Gluepot Definition A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue.
- English Word Gluer Definition One who cements with glue.
- English Word Gluey Definition Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.
- English Word Glueyness Definition Viscidity.
- English Word Gluing Definition of Glue
- English Word Gluish Definition Somewhat gluey.
- English Word Glum Definition Sullenness.
- English Word Glum Definition Moody; silent; sullen.
- English Word Glum Definition To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
- English Word Glumaceous Definition Having glumes; consisting of glumes.