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Inflammation of the tongue.

Like gloss; specious. Cowley.

A kind of hoisting winch.

Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

Of or pertaining to glossography.

The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.

ngue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.

The gift of tongues. Farrar.

Of or pertaining to glossology.

One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.

The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.

ir of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

oth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

See Galoche.

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.

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

A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.

An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.