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Glump (glmp), v. i. [See Glum.] To manifest sullenness; to sulk. [Colloq.]

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Glump"y (glmp"), a. Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

Glunch (glnch), a. [Cf. Glump.] Frowning; sulky; sullen. Sir W. Scott. -- n. A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Glut (glt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. &?; to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.] 1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him.

Shak.

2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.

Dryden.

The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.

C. Kingsley.

To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

Glut, v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

Tennyson.

Glut, n. 1. That which is swallowed. Milton

2. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.

Macaulay.

3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

4. (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.] (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. Raymond. (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. Knight. (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln. (e) A block used for a fulcrum.

5. (Zoˆl.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Glu`ta*con"ic (?), a. [Glutaric + aconitic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.

||Glu*tÊ"us (?), n. [NL. See Gluteal.] (Anat.) The great muscle of the ||buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many ||lower animals.

In man, the glutÊus is composed of three distinct parts, which extend and abduct the thigh, and help support the body in standing.

Glu*tam"ic (?), a. [Gluten + -amic.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to gluten.

Glutamic acid, a nitrogenous organic acid obtained from certain albuminoids, as gluten; -- called also amido-glutaric acid.