Index of English words, starting with "gl"

(1) - Glamour (n.) Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
(2) - Glamour (n.) A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
(3) - Glamour (n.) Witchcraft; magic; a spell.
(4) - Glamour (n.) A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.

(1) - Glance (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
(2) - Glance (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
(3) - Glance (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
(4) - Glance (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
(5) - Glance (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
(6) - Glance (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
(7) - Glance (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
(8) - Glance (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
(9) - Glance (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
(10) - Glance (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
(11) - Glance (n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.

(1) - Gland (n.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
(2) - Gland (n.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.
(3) - Gland (n.) Any very small prominence.
(4) - Gland (n.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
(5) - Gland (n.) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
(6) - Gland (n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.

(1) - Glandered (a.) Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse.