glumpy

[Eng. glump; -y.] Glum, sullen, glunch, a. & 8. [Etym. doubtful.] B. As substantive: 1. Sullenne , gloomine . 2. A frown; a sullen, gloomy, or frowning look. "She looked hautely, and gaue me a glum." glu-ma, s. [GLUME.] Skelton: Crowne of Laurell. *glum a-exterior, glum a-calycinal is, s. Bot.: The same as GLUME (q. v.). *glum a-interior, glum a-corollina, s . Bot.: The same as GLUMELLA (q. v.). glû-mā-çe-oŭs (or ceo us as shus), a. [Eng., ., glum (e) (q. v.)- aceous.] Bot.: Po e ed of glumes resembling the flowers of gra es. glu-mal, a. [Mod. Lat. glumalis.] Bot.: Of, belonging to, or characterized by the po e ion of a glume; pertaining or relating to the Glumales (q. v.). IMG:content-0548.png:[blocks in formation] (q. v.).] IMG:content-0549.png:[blocks in formation] "An abundance, indeed a glut , of those talents which raise men to eminence in societies torn by internal factions."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xi. *4. Anything which fills up or obstructs a pa age. "The water some suppose to pa from the bottom of the sea to the heads of springs, through certain subterranean conduits or channels, until they were, by some glut , stopped, or, by other means, arrested in their pa age."Woodward. 5. A wooden wedge used as a quoin, a chock in splitting timber, or as a fulcrum to a lever. II. Technically : 1. Arch .: An arched opening to the ash-pit of a IMG:content-0550.png:[blocks in formation] gluteal 2. Bricklaying: A small brick or block introduced into a course to complete it. 3 Comm.: An oversupply of any commodity in the market; a supply beyond the demand. 4. Nautical : (1) A patch at the center of the head of a sail, having an eyelet for the becket-rope. (2) A choking, as by throwing the fall of a rope acro the sheaves.