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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Single-source entries: G (45)
These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Glaucopine, Glaux, Glaze.
Glaucus (Fisherman of Boeotia He)
A fisherman of Boeotia . He observed that the fishes which he caught and laid on the grass became invigorated and leaped into the sea. He tasted the grass, and suddenly felt a desire to live in the sea. He was made a sea deity by Oceanus and Tethys.
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Glaucus (Son of Hippolochus the son)
A son of Hippolochus, the son of Bellerophon . He aided Priam in the Trojan war, and was noted for his folly in exchanging his golden armor with Diomedes for an iron one.
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Glaucus (Son of Minos the Second)
A son of Minos the Second and Pasiphae, who was smothered in a cask of honey. The soothsayer Polyidus, on being commanded by Minos to find his son, discovered him, and by rubbing his body with a certain herb restored him to life. Glycera (The Sweet One). A favorite name of courtesans. Gordianus, M. Antonius Africanus. Son of Metius Marcellus . He applied himself to poetry, and composed a poem in thirty books. He was sent as proconsul to Africa, and subsequently, when he had attained his eightieth year, he was proclaimed emperor. He • strangled himself at Carthage A. D. 236, and was deeply lamented by the army and the people. Gordianus, M. Antonius Africanus. Son of Gordianus, was made prefect of Rome, and afterward consul, by Alexander Severus. He was elected emperor in conjunction with his father. He was killed in a battle fought with Maximinus in Mauritania. Gordianus, M. Antonius Pius. Grandson of the first Gordianus. He was proclaimed emperor in the sixteenth year of his age. He married the daughter of Misetheus, who was distinguished by his virtues, and to whom Gordian entrusted many of the chief offices of the state. Gordian conquered Sapor , king of Persia, and took 'many cities from him. He was assassinated A. D. 244.
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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.
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Glaze
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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