glinting (glinting)

[Verbal n. of glint, v.] Same as glint. The nervous system... sees shadows and spots and glintings which are not natural to it. B. W. Richardson, Prevent. Med., p. 347. glioma (gli-ō'mä), n.; pl. gliomata (-ma-tā). [NL., pathol ., a tumor composed of neuroglia. Neuroglia, supposed to be the source of one of the forms of tumor described under the name of glioma. H. Gray, Anat. (ed. 1887), p. 72. gliomatous (gli-om'a-tus), a. [ Cellular tumours of the retina have been described as gliomatous . Ziegler , Pathol. Anat. (trans.), i. § 145. Cavity formations in the spinal marrow in adults may result from gliomatous degeneration. Med. News, LIIL. 43. gliosarcoma (gli"ō-sär-kō'mä), n.; pl. gliosar comata (-ma-tä). [ dormouse.] 1. The fourth Linnean order of Glires (gli'rēz), n. pl. [L., pl. of glis ( glir- ), a Mammal i a, composed of the genera Hystrix, Le pus, Castor, Mus, Sciurus, and Noctilio: excepting the last, the same as Rodent i a, the rodents or Rosores. The term has long been superseded by Roden tia, but has come into renewed use, as by Alston, Allen, Coues, and Gill. The Glires are divided into three sub orders: ( a ) Simplicidentati, with one pair of incisors above and below, containing all living rodents excepting the hares and pikas; ( b ) Duplicident at i, with more than one pair of upper incisors, containing the hares and pikas; and (c) He bet ident at i, based upon a fo il genus. The Sim plicidentati are subdivided into the three series of Muomorpha or murine rodents, Hystricomorph a or hystricine rodents, and Sciuromorpha or sciurine rodents, respec tively typified by mice, porcupines, and squirrels. The Duplicident at i are not subdivided, but are also called La gomorpha, or leporine rodents. The Glires are by far the of highly diversified animals, all conforming, however, to largest order of mammals, and embrace a great number a single type of structure. See Rodent i a . 2. [l. c.] Plural of glis , 1. gliriform (glir'i-fôrm), a. [ Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1025. glis ( glir- ), a dormouse, + form a , shape.] Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm. Burns , Mountain Daisy. The sight of the stars glinting fitfully through the trees, as we rolled along the avenue. Charlotte Brontë , Villette, xx. Acro the river the village of Pengandonan glinted through the palms. H. O. Forbes , Eastern Archipelago, p. 185. 21. To glance; turn the eyes. As that hire eye glente Asyde, anon she gan his swerde aspye. Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 1223. He glent vpon syr Gawan, & gaynly he sayde. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 476. 3t. To glance aside; pa by. felde. And the swerde glent be-twene the body and the shelde, and kutte the gige that it hanged on that it fley in to the Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 552. 4. To pa quickly or suddenly, like a gleam of light, [Scotch.] 1. Resembling the Glires or Rodent i a in form; having somewhat of the character of a rodent mammal. Prof. Brandt, of St. Petersburg, in an elaborate memoir just published, arrives at the conclusion that it [Hyraz] is a " gliriform Ungulate." Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 367. 2. Resembling the peculiar teeth of rodents; incisiform: as, a gliriform incisor. Gill. Gliriformia (glir-i-fôr'mi-ä), n. pl . [NL., pl. of gliriformis : see gliriform .] An order of mammals: same as Hyracoidea or Lamnunguia . Glirina (gli-rī'nä), n . pl. [NL., glis ( glir- ), a dormouse: see glis .] 1. A group of rodents or Rodent i a .-2. A group of rodent-like marsupials, corresponding to the family Phascolomy idw .