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.
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Single-source entries: G (44)
These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Glass Rope, Glassites, Glassport.
Glassites
a religious sect, which sprang up in Scotland about 1729, and was so called after its founder, the Rev. John Glas, who was originally a minister of the Church of Scotland, but was deposed by the General Assembly. Assembly. He was opposed to all national establishments for the support of religion, and system of independent advocated a Church government. One of his principal disciples was Robert Sandeman, who formed a congregation in London in 1762. This sect in England bears the name of Sandemanians. The leading tenets of the Glassites, or Sandemanians, relate to the efficacy of the atonement and the nature of faith. They hold that "the bare death of Christ, without a deed or thought on the part of man, is sufficient to present the chief of sinners spotless before God"; God"; and that "faith is no more than a simple assent to the divine testimony, passively received by y the understanding." They observe certain peculiar practices, supposed to have been prevalent among the primitive Christians; such as weekly sacraments, lovefeasts, washing each other's feet, the kiss of charity, etc.
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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.
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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.
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Glastonbury
a town of Somersetshire, England, 25 miles S. of Bath. It was the seat of the most magnificent and wealthy abbey in England, the last abbot of which was hanged for refusing to surrender it to Henry VIII. Its ruins are still extensive.
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Glatz
a town of the province of Silesia, Prussia, on the left bank of the Neisse, 52 miles S. S. W. of Breslau. It has four Catholic churches. Its manufactures before the World War included linen, damask, and woolen fabrics, leather, and rose-garlands. During the Thirty Years' and Seven Years' Wars, Glatz was frequently besieged and taken. Pop. about 17,000.
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Glauber's Salt
sulphate of sodium, so called because of the importance attached to its chemical and medicinal properties by Glauber.
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Glauber, Johann Rudolph
German mediciner and alchemist, born at Carlstadt, in 1603. No authentic records concerning his life appear to exist, although he was a profuse writer and left many treatises on medicine and alchemy. He discovered and prepared many medicines of great value to pharmacy, some of which are in common use, for example the familiar preparation known as Glauber's Salts. He was a firm believer in the Philosophers' Stone and elixir vitæ. Concerning the former, he states: "Let the benevolent reader take with him my final judgment concerning the great Stone of the Wise; let every man believe what he will and is able to comprehend. Such a work is purely the gift of God, and cannot be learned by the most acute power of human mind, if it be not assisted by the benign help of a Divine Inspiration. And of this I assure myself that in the last times, God will raise up some to whom He will open the Cabinet of Nature's Secrets, that they shall be able to do wonderful things in the world to His Glory, the which, I indeed, heartily wish to posterity that they may enjoy and use to the praise and honour of God." Some of Glauber's principal works are, Philosophical Gnosticism Furnaces, Commentary on Paracelsus , Heaven ot the Philosophers, or Book of Vexation, Miraculum Mundi , The Prosperity of Germany , Book of Fires.
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Glauber, John Rudolph
glow'ber, John Rudolph (1604-1668), a German alchemist and physician. He was born in Bavaria. He died at Amsterdam. He was a believer in the philosopher's stone , an upholder of mineral remedies, the writer of thirty treatises, and a generous contributor to the progress of chemistry. Glauber is remembered now chiefly as the discoverer of what is known as Glauber's salts, a once popular household remedy.
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Glauchau
a manufacturing town in Saxony, Germany, situated_on the Mulde, eight miles northwest of Zwickau. Prior to the World War it ranked as one of the chief textile manufacturing centers of all Germany, especially in the production of high class woolen fabrics. The local museum has a very complete collection of old textiles, and one of the best technical textile schools in Germany is located here. Included in the town's industrial establishments were twentyfour dye factories. The population is about 25,000.
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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.
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Glaucodote
an orthorhombic, greenish, tin-white mineral of metallic luster and white streak. It occurs in chlorite slate in the province of Huasco in Chile, also in Sweden.
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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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