Girard – Glaucine
Girard
a town of Ohio, in Trumbull It is on the Erie , Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pennsylvania railroads. Its industries include the manufacture of iron and steel products, leather, and chewing gum. Pop. (1910) 3,736; (1920) 6,556.
GIRL SCOUTS philanthropist; was born near Bordeaux,
Gizzard
a muscular division of the lined with a thick horny epithelium. climate, in what are now temperate latiduring which ice largely prevailed, the before the close of the Post-Pliocene age.
Arctic conditions did not prevail unintermittingly during all this time. Two distinct divisions of the glacial p tudes, being polar. It commenced dur-
Glacier Lake
a lake produced temporarily or permanently by a glacier.
It is noteworthy that glacier lands like Switzerland are also lands abounding in lakes.
Glacier
NATIONAL PARK. See NATIONAL PARKS.
GLACIS (glā'sis), in fortifications, the superior slope of the rampart of the covered way, or, where the rampart does not exist, the declivity immediately in front of the ditch of a work, forming a gentle slope toward the country, and protecting the revetment of the escarp from the fire of an enemy.
Glamorganshire
a county of Wales, in the southernmost part. Its chief industries are the mining of iron and coal. It has also extensive agricultural and cattle raising interests. The chief industries are the mining of iron and coal. It has also extensive agrihas an area of 809 square miles. Pop. about 1,200,000.
Glasgow
ELLEN ANDERSON
Glassport
a borough of Pennsylvania, a, in Allegheny co. It is on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and on the Monongahela river. It is the center of an important coal-mining region, and its industries include the manufacture of axes, steel hoops, glass, foundry products, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,540; (1920) 6,959.
Glasspot
the pot in which the frit is fused into glass. They are made of pure refractory clay, mixed with about one-fifth its weight of old pots pulverized by grinding, are built up instead of being formed on a mold, and baked by being subjected to a white heat.
Glass Rope
a genus of siliceous sponges, consisting of a cup-shaped body affixed to a muddy part of the sea bottom by means of a rope of long twisted siliceous fibers.
Glass Snake
a lizard, of the family Zonuridæ, or Chalcidæ. From the absence of feet, they look like serpents. They are found in this country. The name glass snake is supposed to allude to the brittleness of their tail.
Glauber's Salt
sulphate of sodium, so called because of the importance attached to its chemical and medicinal properties by Glauber.
Glaucine
the alkaloid contained in the leaves of Glaucium flavum. The leaves are macerated with acetic acid, then the juice is pressed out, boiled, filtered, and the filtrate treated with lead nitrate, which precipitates lead fumarate.
The filtrate is treated with H2S, then the glaucine is precipitated with tannin, and the precipitate decomposed by chalk.