Glue

glu, n. A hard, brittle gelatine, obtained by or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get 254 G-LUM 236 boiling the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals when heated with water, becomes viscid and tenacious, and used as a eement. — v. [glued (glad), gluing.] To join with glue; to hold together, unite. [OF. glu, LL. gins, glut is, L. gluten, glue, glut us, tenacious; perh. clew, cleave.'] — Glu'ey, a. Viscous; glutinous. — Glu'ten, (Cfiem.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesivene to dough. [L.] — Glu'tinous, -nus, a. Like Elue viscousj tenacious. — Glu'tinousne , — lu'tinate, -nat, v. To unite with glue. [L. glut in are, -natum.] — Glutina'tion, — Glu'tinative, -tiv, a. Glutinous. 61am, glum, a. Sullen moody silent. [Prov. G. glumm. See Gloom.] Glume, glum, (Bot.) A bract, scale, or husk, covering the flower or seed of grain or gra es. [F.; L. glum a, a husk, hull, gluoere, to peel; perh. cleave, to split.] Glut, v. To swallow greedily, gorge to satiate, sate.— Thing swallowed down full supply supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; a large wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [L. glutire, to Glume, swallow, gulp, gula, throat, Skr. gri, to devour; deglutition, gullet, gules, prob. glycerine, liquorice.']— Glut'ton, -tn, n. One who eats voraciously; a gormandizer; one eager to exce . {Zobl.) A carnivorous mammal; the wolverine. [OF. gloton, L. gluto, Glutton. f glutire.] — Glut'tonous. -tn-us. a. Pert, to a glutton or to gluttony given to exce ive eating. — Glut 'tony, n. Act or practice of a glutton; exce in euting; voracity. Gluten, Glutinate, etc. See under Glue.