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A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.

The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel. [Obs.] Bailey.

The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow.

A hydrate of alumina.

Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandema…

The quality of being glebous. [R.]

Sphericity. Ray.

Inflammation of the tongue.

The quality of being glutinous; viscousness. [R.]

The state or quality of being grandiose,

Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature. [R.] Floyer.

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.

The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

With hesitancy or doubt.

ting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment. Pope.

With hesitation or doubt.