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- English Word Glasswort Definition A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
- English Word Glassy Definition Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
- English Word Glassy Definition Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
- English Word Glassy Definition Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
- English Word Glasynge Definition Glazing or glass.
- English Word Glatified Definition Pleased; indulged according to desire.
- English Word Glauber's salt Definition Alt. of Glauber's salts
- English Word Glauber's salts Definition Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."
- English Word Glauberite Definition A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.
- English Word Glaucescent Definition Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.
- English Word Glaucic Definition Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.
- English Word Glaucine Definition Glaucous or glaucescent.
- English Word Glaucine Definition An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
- English Word Glaucodot Definition A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.
- English Word Glaucoma Definition Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
- English Word Glaucomatous Definition Having the nature of glaucoma.
- English Word Glaucometer Definition See Gleucometer.
- English Word Glauconite Definition The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.
- English Word Glaucophane Definition A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.
- English Word Glaucosis Definition Same as Glaucoma.