Chapter 63

Glau"co*phane (?), n. [Gr. glayko`s silvery, gray + fai`nesqai to appear.] (Min.) A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

||Glau*co"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. glay`kwsis.] (Med.) Same as ||Glaucoma.

Glau"cous (gl"ks), a. [L. glaucus, Gr. glayko`s.] 1. Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue. Lindley.

2. (Bot.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. Gray.

||Glau"cus (?), n. [L., sea green.] (Zoˆl.) 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.

Glaum (?), v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To grope with the hands, as in the dark. [Scot.]

To glaum at, to grasp or snatch at; to aspire to.

Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three.

Burns.

Glave (?), n. See Glaive.

Glav"er (?), v. i. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glafr flattery.] 1. To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.]

Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely.

Wyclif.

2. To flatter; to wheedle. [Obs.]

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.

South.

Glav"er*er (?), n. A flatterer. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

Glay"more` (?), n. A claymore. Johnson.

Glaze (glz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glazed (glzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing.] [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]

1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.

Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass.

Bacon.

2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.

Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears.

Shak.

3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

Glaze, v. i. To become glazed of glassy.

Glaze, n. 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

Glaz"en (?), a. [AS. glÊsen.] Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Glaz"er (?), n. 1. 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.

2. 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.

Gla"zier (?), n. [From Glaze.] One whose business is to set glass.

Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond.

Glaz"ing (?), n. 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.

3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

Glaz"y (?), a. Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

Glead (?), n. A live coal. See Gleed. [Archaic]

Gleam (?), v. i. [Cf. OE. glem birdlime, glue, phlegm, and E. englaimed.] (Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

Gleam, n. [OE. glem, gleam, AS. glÊm, prob. akin to E. glimmer, and perh. to Gr. &?; warm, &?; to warm. Cf. Glitter.]

1. A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.

Transient unexpected gleams of joi.

Addison.

At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps.

Milton.

A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.

Longfellow.

2. Brightness; splendor.

In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.

Pope.

Gleam, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaming.] 1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.

2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.

Syn. -- To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter. To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist; a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See Flash.

Gleam, v. t. To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.

Shak.

Gleam"y, a. Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.

Pope.

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Glean (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaning.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr. LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh&?;u to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand&?;ul.]

1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

Shak.

2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.

Locke.

Glean, v. i. 1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers.

Ruth ii. 3.

2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.

Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate.

Pope.

Glean, n. A collection made by gleaning.

The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

Dryden.

Glean, n. Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.

Glean"er (?), n. 1. One who gathers after reapers.

2. One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.

Glean"ing, n. The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.

Glenings of natural knowledge.

Cook.

Glebe (?), n. [F. glËbe, L. gleba, glaeba, clod, land, soil.] 1. A lump; a clod.

2. Turf; soil; ground; sod.

Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine.

Milton.

3. (Eccl. Law) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.

Glebe"less, a. Having no glebe.

Gle*bos"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being glebous. [R.]

{ Gleb"ous (?), Gleb"y (?), } a. [Cf. L. glaebosus cloddy.] Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Prior.

Glede (gld), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. glea, Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zoˆl.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]

Glede, n. [See Gleed.] A live coal. [Archaic]

The cruel ire, red as any glede.

Chaucer.

Glee (gl), n. [OE. gle, gleo, AS. gleÛw, gleÛ, akin to Icel. gl: cf. Gr. chley`n joke, jest.] 1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.

3. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Gleed (gld), n. [AS. gld, fr. glwan to glow as a fire; akin to D. gloed, G. glut, Icel. gl. See Glow, v. i.] A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.

Glee"ful (?), a. Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.

Gleek (?), n. [Prob. fr. Icel. leika to play, play a trick on, with the prefix ge-; akin to AS. gelcan, Sw. leka to play, Dan. lege.]

1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.]

Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?

Shak.

2. [Cf. Glicke] An enticing look or glance. [Obs.]

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.

Beau. & Fl.

Gleek, v. i. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.

Gleek, n. [OF. glic, G. gl¸ck, fortune. See Luck.]

1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [Obs.] Pepys. Evelyn.

2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [Obs.]

Glee"man (?), n.; pl. Gleemen (#). [Glee + man; AS. gleÛman.] A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

Gleen (?), v. i. [Cf. Glance, Glint.] To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] Prior.

Glee"some (?), a. Merry; joyous; gleeful.

Gleet (?), n. [OE. glette, glet, glat, mucus, pus, filth, OF. glete.] (Med.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.

Gleet, v. i. 1. To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.

2. To flow slowly, as water. Cheyne.

Gleet"y (?), a. Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.

Gleg (?), a. [Icel. glˆggr.] Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Gleire (?), Gleyre, n. See Glair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Glen (?), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael. gleann valley, glen.] A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen.

Spenser.

{ Glen*liv"at (?), Glen*liv"et (?), } n. A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

Gle"noid (?), a. [Gr. &?;; &?; socket of a joint + &?; form; cf. F. glÈnoÔde.] (Anat.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

Gle*noid"al (?), a. (Anat.) Glenoid.

Glent (?), n. & v. See Glint.

Gleu*com"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; must + -meter: cf. F. gleucomËtre.] An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.

Glew (?), n. See Glue. [Obs.]

Gley (?), v. i. [OE. glien, glien, gleien, to shine, to squint; cf. Icel. glj to glitter.] To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Gley (?), adv. Asquint; askance; obliquely.

Gli"a*din (?), n. [Gr. &?; glue: cf. F. gliadine.] (Chem.) 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.

Glib (glb), a. [Compar. Glibber (?); superl. Glibbest (?).] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.]

1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]

2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.

Shak.

Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

Glib, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.

Spenser.

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

Southey.

Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.

Glib"ber*y (?), a. 1. Slippery; changeable. [Obs.]

My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't.

Marston.

2. Moving easily; nimble; voluble. [Obs.]

Thy lubrical and glibbery muse.

B. Jonson.

Glib"ly, adv. In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

Glib"ness, n. The quality of being glib.

Glicke (?), n. [Cf. Gleek, n., 2, and Ir. & Gael. glic wise, cunning, crafty.] An ogling look. [Obs.]

Glid"den (?), obs. p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.

{ Glid"der (?), Glid"der*y (?), } a. [Cf. Glide.] Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.]

Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones.

R. D. Blackmore.

Glide (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The glede or kite.

Glide, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided; p. pr. & vb. n. Gliding.] [AS. gldan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. gltan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.]

1. 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.

The river glideth at his own sweet will.

Wordsworth.

2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

Glide, n. 1. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line.

Thomson.

Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away.

Shak.

2. (Phon.) 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, ßß 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, ßß 18, 97, 191).

The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, ßß 17, 95.

Glid"en (?), obs. p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.

Glid"er (?), n. One who, or that which, glides.

Glid"ing*ly, adv. In a gliding manner.

Gliff (?), n. [Cf. OE. gliffen, gliften, to look with fear at.] 1. A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

2. A moment: as, for a gliff. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Glike (?), n. [See Gleek a jest.] A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]

Glim (?), n. 1. Brightness; splendor. [Obs.]

2. A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens.

Douse the glim, put out the light. [Slang]

Glim"mer (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.] To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

Shak.

Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.

Glim"mer, n. 1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.

Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls.

Tennyson.

2. Mica. See Mica. Woodsward.

Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.

Glim"mer*ing, n. 1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.

2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.

Glimpse (?), n. [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]

1. A sudden flash; transient luster.

LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.

Milton.

2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.

Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.

S. Rogers.

3. A faint idea; an inkling.

Glimpse (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimpsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing.] to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.

Glimpse, v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.

Chaucer.

Glint (?), n. [OE. glent.] A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

Glint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting.] [OE. glenten. Cf. Glance, v. i., Glitter, v. i.] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns.

Glint, v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

||Gli*o"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; glue + -oma.] (Med.) A tumor ||springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, ||spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

||Gli"res (?), n. pl. [L., dormice.] (Zoˆl.) An order of mammals; the ||Rodentia. -- Gli"rine (#), a.

||Glis`sade" (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] A sliding, as down a ||snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.

Glis*san"do (?), n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding.

||Glis*sette" (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] (Math.) The locus ||described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on ||another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any ||instant.

Glist (?), n. [From Glisten.] Glimmer; mica.

Glis"ten (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glistening (?).] [OE. glistnian, akin to glisnen, glisien, AS. glisian, glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See Glitter, v. i., and cf. Glister, v. i.] To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

Syn. -- See Flash.

Glis"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glistering.] [OE. glistren; akin to G. glistern,glinstern, D. glinsteren, and E. glisten. See Glisten.] To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.

All that glisters is not gold.

Shak.

Glis"ter, n. Glitter; luster.

Glis"ter, n. [Cf. OF. glistere.] Same as Clyster.

Glis"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a glistering manner.

Glit"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glittered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glittering.] [OE. gliteren; akin to Sw. glittra, Icel. glitra, glita, AS. glitenian, OS. gltan, OHG. glzzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, and also to E. glint, glisten, and prob. glance, gleam.]

1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.

The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.

Dryden.

2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.

Syn. -- To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See Gleam, Flash.

Glit"ter, n. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton.

Glit"ter*and (?), a. Glittering. [Obs.] Spenser.

Glit"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a glittering manner.

Gloam (?), v. i. [See Gloom, Glum.]

1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

2. To be sullen or morose. [Obs.]

Gloam, n. The twilight; gloaming. [R.] Keats.

Gloam"ing, n. [See Gloom.] 1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.

2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.

Gloar (?), v. i. [OD. gloeren, glueren, gluyeren. Cf. Glower.] To squint; to stare. [Obs.]

Gloat (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gloating.] [Akin to Icel. glotta to smile scornfully, G. glotzen to gloat.] To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

In vengeance gloating on another's pain.

Byron.

Glo"bard (?), n. [OE. globerde, from glow.] A glowworm. [>Obs.] Holland.

{ Glo"bate (?), Glo"ba*ted (?), } a. [L. globatus, p. p. of globare to make into a ball, fr. globus ball.] Having the form of a globe; spherical.

Globe (?), n. [L. globus, perh. akin to L. glomus a ball of yarn, and E. clump, golf: cf. F. globe.]

1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.

2. Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.

3. The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article. Locke.

4. A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.

5. A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.

Him round A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed.

Milton.

Globe amaranth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. -- Globe animalcule, a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algÊ. -- Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute and form globular heads. -- Globe sight, a form of front sight placed on target rifles. -- Globe slater (Zoˆl.), an isopod crustacean of the genus Spheroma. -- Globe thistle (Bot.), a thistlelike plant with the flowers in large globular heads (Cynara Scolymus); also, certain species of the related genus Echinops. -- Globe valve. (a) A ball valve. (b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. Knight.

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Syn. -- Globe, Sphere, Orb, Ball. -- Globe denotes a round, and usually a solid body; sphere is the term applied in astronomy to such a body, or to the concentric spheres or orbs of the old astronomers; orb is used, especially in poetry, for globe or sphere, and also for the pathway of a heavenly body; ball is applied to the heavenly bodies concieved of as impelled through space.

Globe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Globed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Globing.] To gather or form into a globe.

Globe"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Globe"flow`er (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Trollius (T. EuropÊus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. (b) The American plant Trollius laxus.

Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.

Globe"-shaped` (?), a. Shaped like a globe.

Glo*bif"er*ous (?), a. [Globe + -ferous.] (Zoˆl.) Having a round or globular tip.

||Glo*big`e*ri"na (?), n.; pl. GlobigerinÊ (#). [NL., fr. L. globus a ||round body + gerere to bear.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of small Foraminifera, ||which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead ||shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, ||generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ||ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.

Glo*bose" (?), a. [L. globosus.] Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical. Milton.

Glo*bose"ly, adv. In a globular manner; globularly.

Glo*bos"i*ty (?), n. [L. globositas: cf. F. globositÈ.] Sphericity. Ray.

Glo"bous (?), a. [See Globose.] Spherical. Milton.

Glob"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. globulaire.] Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton.

Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45∞. -- Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.

Glob`u*lar"i*ty (?), n. The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.

Glob"u*lar*ly (?), adv. Spherically.

Glob"u*lar*ness, n. Sphericity; globosity.

Glob"ule (?), n. [L. globulus, dim. of globus globe: cf. F. globule.] 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

Globules of snow.

Sir I. Newton.

These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull.

Paley.