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See Gloze. Chaucer.

See Glosser.

ain constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

Bearing a small hook at the end. Gray.

und; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton.

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

To shut in; to inclose. [Obs.]

See Levulose.

Composed of, or having, lamellæ; lamelliform.

g widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left. [Written also lævulose.]C6H12O6.

Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.

Having soft hairs; downy.

Nebulous; cloudy. Derham.

See Gun cotton, under Gun.

Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Cloudy. [R.]

Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.

Having papulæ; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.

See Parclose.