Part 4842

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.</def>

<p><b>2.<p><b> <def>To be sullen or morose.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Gloam</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gloam</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The twilight; gloaming.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Keats.</i>

<h1>Gloaming</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gloam"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Gloom</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.</def> <mark>[Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.]</mark>

<i>Hogg.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Sullenness; melancholy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>J. Still.</i>

<h1>Gloar</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gloar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[OD. gloeren, glueren, gluyeren. Cf. <er>Glower</er>.]</ety> <def>To squint; to stare.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Gloat</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gloat</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gloated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gloating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Akin to Icel. <ets>glotta</ets> to smile scornfully, G. <ets>glotzen</ets> to gloat.]</ety> <def>To look steadfastly; to gaz<?/ earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malig nant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.</def>

<blockquote>In vengeance <b>gloating</b> on another's pain. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Globard</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glo"bard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>globerde</ets>, from <ets>glow</ets>.]</ety> <def>A glowworm.</def> <mark>[>Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Globate, Globated</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw><hw>Glo"bate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Glo"ba*ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>globatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>globare</ets> to make into a ball, fr. <ets>globus</ets> ball.]</ety> <def>Having the form of a globe; spherical.</def>

<h1>Globe</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Globe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>globus</ets>, perh. akin to L. <ets>glomus</ets> a ball of yarn, and E. <ets>clump</ets>, <ets>golf</ets>: cf. F. <ets>globe</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; <as>as, the <ex>globe</ex> of the eye; the <ex>globe</ex> of a lamp.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; <as>as, a terrestrial or celestial <ex>globe</ex></as>; -- called also <altname>artificial globe</altname>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.</def>