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2. That which is formed into a ball; a ball. Bacon.

Glom"er*ous (?), a. [L. glomerosus, fr. glomus. See 3d Glome.] Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. [Obs.] Blount.

Glom"er*ule (?), n. [Dim. fr. L. glomus ball.]

1. (Bot.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

2. (Anat.) A glomerulus.

||Glo*mer"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Glomeruli (#). [NL., dim. of L. glomus. ||See 3d Glome.] (Anat.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in ||a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

Glom`u*lif"er*ous (?), a. [L. glomus a ball + -ferous.] (Biol.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

{ Glon"o*in Glon"o*ine } (?), n. [Glycerin + oxygen + nitrogen + -in, -ine.]

1. Same as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin. [Obs.]

2. (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.

Gloom (glm), n. [AS. glm twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]

1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.

Tennyson .

3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

Burke.

4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.

Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

The black gibbet glooms beside the way.

Goldsmith.

Spenser.

Gloom, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.

Walpole.