Glandinidæ (gland in ide)

pl. [NL., called Oleacinidæ. Gland in a trun cat a. glandula (glandu-lä), n.; pl. glandulæ (-lē). [L., a gland: see glandule.] In zoöl. and an at., a gland of any kind. The term is now le frequent in use than formerly, but it is still regularly employed in a number of terms, chiefly anatomical. glandular (glandu-lar), a. [ glandularly (glandu-lär-li), adv. In a glan dular manner. IMG:content-2355.png:[blocks in formation] glandulous (glan'dū-lus), a. [Also glandulose ; = F. glanduleux = Sp. Pg. It. glanduloso , glandulosus , glandulous, glandula , landula , a gland: see glandule .] Same as glandular . All glands and glandulous parts do likewise consist of fibers, but of the softer kind. N. Grew , Cosmologia Sacra, I. v. § 18. Glanencheli (gla-neng'ke-li), n . pl . [NL., (Gr. γλάνις, prob. the she at-fish (cf. γλάνος , the hy- ena), + ἔγχελυς, eel.] In Cope's cla ification, an order of physostomous fishes, containing only the electric eels or Electro pho rid a . They have no pre coracoid arch; the scapular arch is suspended to the cranium; a symplectic bone is present; the parietals are united; and the anterior vertebræ are modified. By others the group is referred to the order Plectospondyli . glanenchelian (glan-eng-kēʻli-an), a . [As Gla- nencheli +-ian.] Pertaining to the Glanencheli . an . Pertaining glanenchelous (gla-neng'ke-lus), a . Same as glanenchelian. glanidian (gla-nid'i-an), n. [NL., glanis A fish of the family Siluri ( glanid- ) + -ian .] dæ ; a silurid, as a catfish or she at-fish. Sir J. Richardson. upon him. Sparkle represents a hard light that seems to be emitted irregularly in ignited particles or visible parts: as, sparkling diamonds, eyes, wit. Coruscate ex- pre es a rapid throwing off of vivid or brilliant flashes of light, as in the aurora borealis or by a revolving piece of fireworks. Glimmer represents a faint and unsteady light: as, stars glimmering through the mist. Flicker goes further, and suggests, as glimmer does not, a probable ex- tinct i on of the light: as, a flickering taper. See flame , n ., and radiance . [The sun] glared down in the woods, where the breathle boughs Hung heavy and faint in a languid drowse. The clay walls glisten like gold in the slanting rays. O'Donovan, Merv, ix. Then in the dusk the glittering splendor scintillates as brilliantly as it did eight hundred years ago. To be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. glareoline (gla-rē'ō-lin), a . [ glareole + -ine1 .] Having the character of a glareole; pertaining to the genus Glareola . glareose (glar'ē-ōs), a . [L. glareosus , full of gravel, gravelly, glare a , gravel.] In bot ., growing in gravelly places. [Rare.] glareous, a . See glaireous . Violets, heavenly blue, Spring, glittering with the cheerful drops like dew. Bryant , Paradise of Tears. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way. Goldsmith , Captivity, ii. 1. The rosy sky, With one star sparkling through it like an eye. Byron, Don Juan, ii. 183. As flaming fire was more coruscating and enlightening than any other matter, they invented lamps to hang in the sepulchres of the rich, which would burn perpetually. Green hill, Art of Embalming, p. 331. Glaniostomi (glan-i-os'tō-mi), n. pl . [NL., γλάνις , prob prob. the she at-fish, + στόμα , mouth.] An order of chondrosteous ganoid fishes, con- taining only the Acipenserida or true sturgeons, thus separated from the Selachostomi : so called from having the mouth furnished with barbels like those of catfishes: synonymous with Chon -Veiled the light of his face. Long fellow , Evangeline, i. 4. Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapours II. trans . To shoot out or emit, as a dazzling [Rare.] One Spirit in them ruled; and every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire Among the accurst. Milton , P. L., vi. 849. glarel (glar), n. [ IMG:content-2356.png:[blocks in formation] Without, the steady glare Shrank one sick willow sere and small. glans (glanz), n.; pl. glandes (glan'dēz). [L., an acorn: see gland .] 1. In bot ., the acorn, or a similar fruit.-2. In med .: (a) A strumous swelling or enlargement of the thyroid gland; bronchocele; goiter. (b) A pe ary; a supposi- 2. A fierce, piercing look. tory.-3. In an at . , the head of the penis or of the clitoris. More fully called glans penis and glans clitoridis .-4. [cap.] In conch., conch., a a genus of mollusks. Megerle . IMG:content-2357.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. A stretch of ice; an icy condition. Seuen months the Winter dures [in Ru ia), the glare it is so great, As it is May before he turne his ground to so we his wheate. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 386. Syn. 1. Flare , etc. See flame, n. glarel (glar), a. [ glare1 , n.] Smooth; slip- pery; transparent; gla y. I have seen ponies which had to be knocked down and pulled acro glare ice on their sides [in cro ing a stream]. IMG:content-2358.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2359.png:[blocks in formation] In the winter time, so glarie is the ground, As neither gra e, nor other graine, in pastures may be found. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 386. Glas-, -glas. [Gael. glas , gray, pale, wan, = Ir. glas , green, verdant, pale, wan, poor. po ible that in some local names this element is an accom. of Gael. glac , a hollow, a valley, a narrow valley, = Ir. glac , a narrow glen.] An element in some place-names of Celtic (mostly Gaelic) origin, signifying 'dark,' 'gray' (or 'valley': see etymology): as, Glasford ; Doug- las ; Strath gla . glaset, v. An obsolete form of glaze . glasent, a . See glazen . Glaserian (glā-zēʻri-an), a . Relating to the Swi anatomist Glaser (1629-75). Also spell- ed Gla erian. - Glaserian fi ure. See fi ure. glaserite (glāzer-īt), n. IMG:content-2360.png:[graphic] gla material or imperfection in the manufacture, only slightly translucent. Gla is an inorganic substance, as would naturally be inferred from its being the result of fusion, but some organic substances are called vitreous. Some rocks have a vitreous structure, like that of artificial gla , as, for instance, obsidian, which is often called volcanic gla . (See obsidian and lava. ) The slags produced in furnace operations are vitreous substances, but usually only translucent, and not transparent, because the vitrification is incomplete, and also because they are too deeply colored by metallic oxids. Gla , as the word is generally understood, is an artificial product, and one of the most important of manufactured articles. Its valuable qualities are: the ease with which it can be made to take any desired shape; cheapne , the result of the small cost of the materials of which it is made; durability, and especially resistance to decomposition by acids and corrosive substances generally; transparency, a quality of the utmost importance, as evidenced by its use for windows and in optical and chemical instruments; and the beautiful luster of those kinds which are used for ornamental purposes. Almost the only drawback to these good qualities of gla is its brittlene . The bases used in gla -manufacture are chiefly soda, potash, lime, alumina, and oxid of lead, and the quality of the article produced depends on the nature and amount of the basic material united with the silica. The combinations of silica with a simple alkaline base, either potash or soda, are soluble in water, and are known as water - gla . (See soluble gla , below.) They are useful substances, but very different in their properties from what is ordinarily known as gla . In addition to the alkaline base there must be an alkaline earth or a metallic oxid. The cheapest gla is that used for bottles; in this the basic material is chiefly lime, with some potash or soda, and alumina. Gla for medicine-bottles differs from ordinary bottle-gla in containing more potash than the latter, and also in the greater purity of the material used. Window-gla usually contains both soda and lime: here absence of any tinge of color is important, except in the most inferior qualities. Potash and soda render the gla more fusible; alumina diminishes its fusibility; lime makes it harder; lead gives luster, fusi. bility, and high refractive power. Hence, in gla which is to be cut and polished, where beauty is of prime importance, the base is chiefly oxid of lead, which amounts in some cases to half the weight of the material used. Gla in which lead is the e ential base is called crystal or flint gla . (See these words.) The finer kinds of gla with out lead are called crown -gla . The tools employed by the gla -blower are simple, but require dexterity for their use. The proce of manufacture depends on the fact that, at a very high temperature, gla is a liquid which can be readily cast; at a full red heat it is soft, ductile, and easily welded; when cold, it is hard and brittle. Gla to be serviceable must be annealed after the desired form has been given to it. This is done by heating it nearly to the melting-point, and then allowing it to cool very slowly in an annealing-chamber. By the action of hydrofluoric acid, which combines readily with the silica in gla , etching can be done on a gla surface. When cold, gla can be ground or cut upon a wheel, scratched by a diamond-point (by which means sheets of gla are readily divided or shaped, as they will break easily along the lines of such scratches), cut and depolished, or "ground" by a sand-blast, and brought to an exceedingly high polish. Specimens of Egyptian gla are in existence which can be dated back to about 2400 B. C.; in Egyptian sculptures of 4000 B. C. gla bottles are undoubtedly represented; and among the bas-reliefs of Beni Ha an, about 2000 B. C., various operations of gla -blowing are portrayed. In historical Egyptian, Phenic i an, and Roman antiquity, gla was in familiar use. The great quantities of examples of ancient gla ve els which have been ex Specimens of Ancient Roman Gla . (From "L'Art pour Tous.") humed from tombs, etc., formerly clear and transparent, are now as a rule characterized by a brilliant iridization like that of mother-of-pearl. This iridization is due to the imperfect composition of the gla , which has thus be come affected by moisture during its stay under ground. Though well known to the Greeks, gla was in le common use among them, owing to the perfection of their ceramic ware. In Europe the most artistic manufactures of gla have been, since the middle ages, those of Venice, characterized by great elegance of form and lightne and thinne of substance, and those of Bohemia, of later date than the Venetian, and especially notable not only for grace of form, but for enameling, cutting, and engraved decoration. They keep the wind out of their windows with gla , for it is there much used. Sir T. More, Utopia, II. ii. 2. I must be married to my brother's daughter, Or else my kingdom stands on brittle gla . Shak ., Rich. III., iv. 2. Cups Where nymph and god ran ever round in gold - Others of gla as costly. Tennyson , Lover's Tale, iv. 2. A plate, screen, ve el, instrument, etc., made of gla . (a) A plate or pane of gla inserted in the frame of a window, picture, clock, hotbed, etc., to admit the light or permit a view, while excluding wind, rain, dust, or other interference. (b) A looking-gla ; a mirror. It was formerly fashionable for ladies to carry a looking-gla hanging from the girdle. The gla of fashion, and the mould of form. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 1. Let all sweet ladies break their flattering gla es , And dre themselves in her. Webster, Duche of Malfi, i. 2. We may see our future in the gla of our past history. W. Phillips , Speeches, p. 374. 2530 (c) A gla ve el filled with running sand for measuring time, called specifically an hour - gla ; hence, the time in which a gla is exhausted of its sand; specifically ( naut.), the time in which a half-hour gla is emptied of its sand. If you should omit to note those things at the end of euery foure gla es, I would not haue you to let it slip any longer time then to note it diligently at the end of euery watch, or eight gla es at the farthest. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 436. IMG:content-2361.png:[blocks in formation] That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a gla Did break i' the rinsing. Shak ., Hen. VIIL, i. 1. See that ye fill the gla well up To the laird o' Wariestoun. Laird of Wariestoun (Child's Ballads, III. 111). Being you have abandoned yourself to my conduct, we will only call and drink a gla on horseback at the Talbot, and away. Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 227. (f) An observing-instrument made of gla , or of which the main or most important part is of gla . (1) A lens; a telescope; a field-gla . (2) A barometer. (3) A thermometer. (4) An eye-gla : usually in the plural, eyegla es or spectacles. The moon, whose orb Through optic gla the Tuscan artist views. Milton , P. L., i. 288. With gla at eye, and catalogue in hand. Cowper, Task, vi. 288. Get me my gla es, Annie: thank God that I keep my eyes. Tennyson, The Grandmother. Alabaster gla . See alabaster. - Anaclastic gla or vial. See anaclastic. - Argentine, black, blue, broad, bronzed gla . See the adjectives. - Biar gla , ornamental gla ware made in the province of Alicante, Spain, especially that made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. - Bohemian gla . ( a ) Ornamental gla ware made in Bohemia, famous since the sixteenth century for the richne of the colors employed in its enameled decoration, and especially Incised Bohemian Gla .- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. for its incised or engraved ornament in delicate patterns. (b) Gla having a lime base instead of a lead base, in this sense including nearly all the ornamental gla ware, ve els, etc., of the best periods and styles, Venetian, Spanish, and others. (c) A kind of gla which is quite colorle , hard, dif ficultly fusible, and le readily acted upon by chemicals than any other kind of gla . Mirrors are often made of it, and it is largely used for the manufacture of chemical apparatus. It is made from ground quartz, purified potash, and lime. Cameo-gla , in Rom. antiq., a kind of artistic gla ware formed from gla consisting of superimposed layers of different colors, the outermost of which was cut away so as to leave a design that appears in relief upon the layer under Ancient Roman Cameo-Gla .- Amphora from Pompeii, Museo Nazionale, Naples.