Part 4846

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Glomerous</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw>Glom"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>glomerosus</ets>, fr. <ets>glomus</ets>. See 3d <er>Glome</er>.]</ety> <def>Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Blount.</i>

<h1>Glomerule</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw>Glom"er*ule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Dim. fr. L. <ets>glomus</ets> ball.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A glomerulus.</def>

<h1>Glomerulus</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw>Glo*mer"u*lus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Glomeruli</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., dim. of L. <ets>glomus</ets>. See 3d <er>Glome</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.</def>

<h1>Glomuliferous</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw>Glom`u*lif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>glomus</ets> a ball + <ets>-ferous</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.</def>

<i>M. C. Cooke.</i>

<h1>Glonoin Glonoine</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw><hw>Glon"o*in</hw> <hw>Glon"o*ine</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Gl</ets>ycerin + <ets>o</ets>xygen + <ets>n</ets>itrogen + <ets>-in</ets>, <ets>-ine</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Same as <er>Nitroglycerin</er>; -- called also <altname>oil of glonoin</altname>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.</def>

<h1>Gloom</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw>Gloom</hw> <tt>(gl&oomac;m)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>gl&omac;m</ets> twilight, from the root of E. <ets>glow</ets>. See <er>Glow</er>, and cf. <er>Glum</er>, <er>Gloam</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; <as>as, the <ex>gloom</ex> of a forest, or of midnight</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.</def>

<blockquote>Before a <b>gloom</b> of stubborn-shafted oaks. <i>Tennyson .</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.</def>

<blockquote>A sullen <b>gloom</b> and furious disorder prevailed by fits. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See <er>Darkness</er>.</syn>

<h1>Gloom</h1> <Xpage=631>

<hw>Gloom</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gloomed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Glooming</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.</def>