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Glaucoma

an opacity of the vitreous humor of the eye, characterized by a bluish tint seen from with out, and the absence of the peculiar characters of the cataract, which, in some respects, it resembles.

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Glauconite

an amorphous green opaque mineral, like earthy chlorite, with a dull or glistening luster. There are two varieties of it; the one the green earth cavities in eruptive rocks, the other the green grains in greens and formation, or anything similar.

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Glaucopicrine

an alkaloid occurring in the root of Glaucium flavum. The root is exhausted with acetic acid, then precipitated with ammonia, redissolved in acetic acid, then precipitated with a solution of oak bark, and decomposing the precipitate with chalk, is crystallized out of ether.

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Glaucopine

wattle-crows, a sub-family of Corvida. The bill is short; the culmen elevated and curved from the base; the upper mandible entire; the wings short, rounded; the tail lengthened, graduated, or cuneated.

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Glaux

a genus of plants, order Primulaceæ, having a five-lobed calyx, no corolla, olla, and a five-valved capsule, with about five seeds. G. maritima, sometimes called sea milk-wort and black salt-wort, is one of the most common plants of our sea-coasts, growing in almost every muddy situation. It is a small plant, with branching stems, often procumbent, and small fleshy leaves. It makes a good pickle.

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Glaze

a vitrifiable composition for covering earthenware or porcelain. In cookery the word is applied to the white of eggs, or strong gravy or jelly boiled down to the consistency of a thin cream, and used to cover pastry, with a glossy, shining coating. In painting it is used for any kind of varnish intended to preserve the picture from the effects of the atmosphere, and to add brilliancy to the colors.

GLAZED FROST, terms now applied by the U. S. Weather Bureau and the British Meteorological Office respectively to the smooth coating of ice on trees, wires, and other outdoor objects, often called Silver Thaw, sleet, etc., and caused by the freezing of rain on chilled surfaces. An extensive deposit of glaze is termed an ice rain.

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Glazier

LAKE, a body of water in Minnesota, S. of Lake Itasca, into which it empties through a swift and permanent stream about six feet wide; named for Capt. Willard Glazier, who claimed for it a geographical importance as the true source of the Mississippi. Lake Glazier is in lat. about 47° 34′ N. and lon. 95° .02′ W.; is 1½ miles in greatest diameter; and has an area of 255 acres. It is estimated to be 1,582 feet above the Atlantic, and 3,184 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The Minnesota State Historical Society sent an expedition to the region and published a refutation of Glazier's claims.

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Glean

to gather fallen heads of wheat or other grain. Where land is dear, fields small, and labor cheap, women and children go over the fields at harvest time, gathering up scattered grain. Now that breadstuffs are raised and harvested largely by machinery, and transportation is less expensive than formerly, even the poor do better to work for wages and buy bread. There is now very little gleaning. Among the Hebrews the owner of a field was forbidden to glean. Scattered grain was left for the poor. Ruth, it may be remembered, went gleaning in the fields of Boaz, her husband's rich kinsman. In that calm Syrian afternoon, memory, a pensive Ruth, went gleaning the silent fields of childhood, and found the scattered grain still golden, and the morning sunlight fresh and fair.--Curtis.

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Gleason

ELLIOTT PERRY, an American inventor; born in Westmoreland, N. H., June 27, 1821; received a the common school education; was one of first to manufacture gas burners; and invented the regulating argand burner, etc. He died in 1901.

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Gleditschia

a genus of plants, order Fabaceæ. They are trees, with supra-axillary, branched spines; leaves abruptly pinnate and bi -pinnate, often in the same specimen. G. triacanthus, the honey locust , is a fine ornamental tree, native from Pennsylvania to Missouri, and now common in cultivation. Its branches are armed with stout, triple spines. In favorable circumstances it attains the height of 70 feet. The thorns, with which its branches are armed in a most formidable manner, are 2 to 3 inches long . Foliage light and elegant, the flowers are small, white, succeeded by flat, crooked hanging pods. Seeds flat, hard , brown, imbedded in a fleshy substance ; at first sweet, but becomes sour.

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Glee

a musical composition for voices in harmony, consisting of two or more contrasted movements, with the parts so contrived that they may be termed a series of interwoven melodies. It may be written for three or more voices, es, either equal or mixed; but it is necessary that there should be only one voice to a part. It may be designed with or without instrumental accompaniment, and set to words in any style. As a composition the glee appears to have historically followed the catch.

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Gleeman

a strolling minstrel or musician. See Minstrel

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Gleemen

itinerant minstrels, so called by the Anglo-Saxons; by the Latin writers of the Middle Ages they are termed joculatores . The name appears to have been supplanted by the Norman minstrels shortly after the Conquest.

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Glen Cove

a city in Nassau county, Railroad, and on Long Island Sound. It New York. It is on the Long Island is chiefly a residential city, but has some manufactures . It has excellent public seat of a Friends' schools and a public library. It is the corporated in 1918. Pop. (1920) 8,664. ads' Academy. It was in- Los Angeles co. It is on the Pacific Elec-

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Glenalmond

a valley of Perthshire , Scotland, much visited for its ject of Wordsworth's verses on the scenery, and for Ossian's grave-the sub- "Narrow Glen." It is the seat of Trinity College, Glenalmond (1847), whose building's duced ings have been to some extent reproford, Conn. duced in those of Trinity College, Hart-

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Glendale

a city of California, in tric and the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake railroads. Its public institulibrary, and a high school. It is the tions include a sanitarium , a public center of an important fruit-growing 13,536. district. Pop. (1910) 2,746; (1920)

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