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n. 1. 1 a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
Syn. -- genus Aglaonema. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan).
Syn. -- Bangla Desh, East Pakistan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Bangladesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi dialects
Syn. -- East Pakistani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + glandular. ] Having two glands, as a plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burg town, F. bourg, fr. LL. burgus (of German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and Larceny. ] (Law) One guilty of the crime of burglary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burglar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. [ 1913 Webster ]

To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. secure against burglary.
Syn. -- burglar-proof. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Burglaries [ Fr. Burglar; cf. LL. burglaria. ] (Law) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By statute law in some of the United States, burglary includes the breaking with felonious intent into a house by day as well as by night, and into other buildings than dwelling houses. Various degrees of the crime are established. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. cardialgia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; heart + &unr_; pain: cf. F. cardialgie. ] (Med.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine). ] A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. conglaciatus, p. p. of conglaciare. See Glaciate. ] To turn to ice; to freeze. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. conglaciation. ] The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ After the discoverer, William Cowper, an English surgeon. ] (Anat.) Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. digladiari; di- = dis- + gladius a sword. ] To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of digladiating. [ Obs. ] “Sore digladiations and contest.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. e- + glandulose, glandulosus. ] Destitute of glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. églantine, fr. OF. aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet. ] (Bot.) (a) A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors. (b) The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twining plant, perhaps the honeysuckle. [ 1913 Webster ] Through the sweetbrier, or the vine,
Or the twisted eglantine. L'Allegro, 47. “In our early writers and in Gerarde and the herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers.” Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Eglantine. [ Obs. or R. ] [ Written also eglantere. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. engleimen to smear, gleim birdlime, glue, phlegm. ] Clammy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When used in the United States without qualification, the word Everglades is understood to refer to the Everglades of southern Florida. [ PJC ]

n. A glance of eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A lens of glass worn in front of the eye to assist vision; -- usually used in the plural, referring to a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, and worn resting on the bridge of the nose, to improve the vision. A single eyeglass in a frame is called a monocle. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The retina. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A glass eyecup. See Eyecup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, used for correcting defective vision. Also called a pair of eyeglasses. See also eyeglass{ 1 }.
Syn. -- spectacles, specs, glasses. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a material made of fine glass fibers woven into a fabric-like form, and used in applications requiring heat resistance; it is also embedded in resins to make a pliable but strong composite material used as the main component of fishing rods and boat hulls, and replacing the sheet metal in some automobile bodies. [ Also spelled fibreglass, mostly British in usage. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as fiberglass. [ mostly British usage ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Chem.) A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The concave or diverging half on an achromatic lens is usually made of flint glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. galloglach. Cf. Gillie. ] A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward &unr_; Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Glabellæ [ NL., fr. L. glabellus hairless, fr. glaber bald. ] (Anat.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar a. [1913 Webster]

‖n.; pl. Glabella [ NL. See Glabella. ] (Zool.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glabrare, fr. glaber smooth. ] (Bot.) Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.

{ } v. t. [ See Glabrate. ] To make smooth, plain, or bare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. glabritas. ] Smoothness; baldness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glaber; cf. Gr. &unr_; hollow, smooth, &unr_; to hollow. ] Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p.p. of glacer to freeze, to ice. Cf. Glacier. ] Smoothly coated with icing or crystals of sugar; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.
Syn. -- candied, crystalized, glacéed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. glacialis, from glacies ice: cf. F. glacial. ] 1. Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glacial acid (Chem.), an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid. --
Glacial drift (Geol.), earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. --
Glacial epoch or
Glacial period (Geol.), a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops. --
Glacial theory or
Glacial hypothesis. (Geol.) See Glacier theory, under Glacier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. glaciatus, p. p. of glaciare to freeze, fr. glacies ice. ] To turn to ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To convert into, or cover with, ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of freezing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is formed by freezing; ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. glacier, fr. glace ice, L. glacies. ] An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The mass of compacted snow forming the upper part of a glacier is called the firn, or névé; the glacier proper consist of solid ice, deeply crevassed where broken up by irregularities in the slope or direction of its path. A glacier usually carries with it accumulations of stones and dirt called moraines, which are designated, according to their position, as lateral, medial, or terminal (see Moraine). The common rate of flow of the Alpine glaciers is from ten to twenty inches per day in summer, and about half that in winter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glacier theory (Geol.), the theory that large parts of the frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during the glacial, or ice, period, and that, by the agency of this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface, called drift or diluvium, were transported and accumulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]