glabrate

[Lat. glabratus, pa. par. of glabro =to make bald, to deprive of hair, from glaber (fem. glabra )=without hair, smooth.] Bot.: Becoming glabrous or smooth from age. ( Gray.) *glā-bri-āte, *glā-brě-āte, v . t . [Lat. glabra tus , pa. par. of glabro , from glaber =without hair, smooth.] To make smooth, bare, or bald. *glā-brity, s . [Lat. glabritas , from glaber = without hair, smooth.] The state of being gla bro us, smooth, or bald. glā-broŭs, a. [Lat. glaber.] Bot.: Smooth; having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence. "French elm, whose leaves are thicker and more florid, glabrous, or smooth."- Evelyn: Sylva. *gla-çi-a-ble (or çi as shi), a . [Lat. glaci ( es ) = ice, and Eng. suff. -able .] Capable of being converted into ice. "Sensible philosophers conceive of the generation of diamonds, iris, beryls; not making them of frozen icicle, or from meer aqueous and glaciable substances." Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. ii., ch. i. glā-çi-al (or çi as shi), a . [Fr. & Sp. glacial ; Port. glacal ; Ital. glaciale , from Lat. glacial is icy, frozen, full of ice; glacies =ice.] Of or belonging to ice. "And for his glacial air, where is the shepherd so simple, but could have told him, that snowy or whatever else he means by glacial air, or clouds may serve to darken the day, but not at all prolong it?"-Grew: Cosmologia Sacra, bk. iv., ch. iv. IMG:content-0489.png:[blocks in formation] Geol.: Drift, that is transported material, in the carrying or deposition of which ice, in the form either of land ice or of icebergs, took the leading part. The smoother surfaces of the bowlders and pebbles generally exhibit a series of scratches, parallel to each other if made contemporaneously, though, if arising at different periods, a newer set of scratches may cro an older one. The fo il remains are those of more or le arctic mollusks and other animals. It is the same as Bowlder driftong. v.). [GLACIAL-FORMATIONS, GLACIAL PERIOD.J glacial-epoch, s. [GLACIAL-PERIOD.]