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Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth. Bright, crystal glass is glary. Boyle.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. Boyle.

The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. Boyle.

, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

Gnomonical. Boyle.

The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

One skilled in gnomonics. Boyle.

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

A blastostyle.

A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages. Boyle.

Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.

Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture.

o grace a gentleman. Shak. I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. Blair.

ption. They are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style. M. Arnold.

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

Having a rank smell. [R.] Boyle.

not by 400, has 366 days; all other years have 365 days. See Bissextile, and Note under Style, n., 7.

rvier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.