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[In def. 2, What glut of tho gomes may any good kachen, He will kepen it hymself, & cofren it faste. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 67. 21. A swallowing; that which has been swallowed. Disgorging foul Their devilish glut , chain'd thunderbolts, and hail Of iron globes. Milton , P. L., vi. 589. 3. More of something than is desired; a superabundance; so much as to cause displeasure or satiety, etc.; specifically, in com., an over-supply of any commodity in the market; a supply above the demand. Let him drinke a littel iulep made with clean water and sugar, or a litell small biere or ale, so that he drinke not a great glut , but in a lytel quantite. Sir T. Elyot , Castle of Health, ii. 27. Husbands must take heed They give no gluts of kindne to their wives. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights. Sir R. L'Estrange. A glut of study and retirement in the first part of my life cast me into this; and this will throw me again into study and retirement. Pope , To Swift. Some of these [springs] send forth such a glut of water that, in le than a mile below the fountain head, they afford a stream sufficient to supply a grist mill. Beverley , Virginia, ii. 5. A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. Macaulay. 4. The state of being glutted; a choking up by exce ; an engorgement. [Rare.] 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 , stop, or other means arrested in their pa age. Woodward. 5. A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]-6. Naut.: (a) A piece of wood employed as a fulcrum in order to obtain a better lever-power in raising any body, or a piece of wood inserted beneath the thing to be raised in order to prevent its recoil when IMG:content-2431.png:[blocks in formation] Davis , Bricks Glut, def. 6 (8). and Tiles, p. 69.-8. The broad-nosed eel, An guilla latirostris. [Local, Eng.] -9. The offal or refuse of fish. glutæus, gluteus (glo-tē'us), n.; pl. glutai, glutei (-1). [NL., in man for its enormous relative size and very fiber, arising from the sacrum, coccyx, and adjoining parts of the pelvis, and inserted into the gluteal ridge of the femur. It chiefly forms the bulk of the buttocks, is a powerful extensor of the thigh, and a ists in maintaining the erect posture of the body. See cut under muscle. - Glutæus medius, the mesoglutæus or middle gluteal muscle, arising from the dorsum of the ilium and inserted into the great trochanter of the femur. See cut under muscle. - Gluteus minimus, the entoglutæus or smallest and innermost gluteal muscle, the origin and insertion of which are similar to those of the middle gluteal. some animals certain gluteal muscles are enumerated as glutœus primus, glutœus sccundus, glutœus tertius, etc., not, however, nece arily implying that they are respectively homologous with the glutæi of man. In gluteal (glö-tē'al), a. and n. [ glute an (glö-tē'an), a. Same as gluteal. With nude statues, seen from the front, the true aspect is constantly gained at the moment of eclipse of the glute an muscles behind the continuous line over the hip from trunk to thigh. The Portfolio, No. ccxxvii., p. 222.