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Glow"worm` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvÊ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.

Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light.

Shak.

The male is winged, and is supposed to be attracted by the light of the female. In America, the luminous larvÊ of several species of fireflies and fire beetles are called glowworms. Both sexes of these are winged when mature. See Firefly.

||Glox*in"i*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) American genus of herbaceous plants ||with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, ||a German botanist.

Gloze (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glozed(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing.] [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation.]

1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer.

A false, glozing parasite.

South.

So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.

Milton.

2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. Shak.

Gloze, v. t. To smooth over; to palliate.

By glozing the evil that is in the world.

I. Taylor.

Gloze, n. 1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.

Shak.

2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Gloz"er (?), n. A flatterer. [Obs.] Gifford (1580).

Glu"cic (?), a. [Gr. &?; sweet.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar; as, glucic acid.

Glu*ci"na (?), n. [Cf. F. glycine, glucine. So called because it forms sweet salts. See Glucinum.] (Chem.) A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine.

Glu*cin"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.

Glu*ci"num (?), n. [Cf. F. glucinium, glycium, fr. Gr. &?;, sweet. Cf. Glycerin.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. [Formerly written also glucinium.]

Glu"co*gen (?), n. [R.] See Glycogen.

Glu`co*gen"e*sis (?), n. Glycogenesis. [R.]

Glu*con"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose.

Gluconic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained as a colorless, sirupy liquid, by the oxidation of glucose; -- called also maltonic acid, and dextronic acid.