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narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.

A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

Glenoid.

See Glint.

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.] He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.

ase, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Shak.

A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70.

f the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end. -- Eye doctor, an oculist. -- Eye of a volute (Arch.), the circle in the center of volute. -- Eye of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of h…

A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.

A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

re; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46.