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Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.

Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink. [Colloq.] kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious. Burns. During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time. Dryden.

A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

To handle without gloves, to treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with. [Colloq.] -- To take up the glove, to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel. -- To throw down the glove, to challenge to combat.

To manifest sullenness; to sulk. [Colloq.]

Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.

To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. L' Estrange. -- To go far. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. -- To go for. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for.

A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. [Low] L'Estrange.

r Act. -- Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.…

A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.]

Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

especially by for. All quality that is good for anything is founded originally in merit. Collier.

A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [Colloq.]

Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]