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

n. [ Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sudden flash of light or splendor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift as the lightning glance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. --
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. --
Glance copper, chalcocite. --
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glanced p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing ] 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. [ 1913 Webster ]

From art, from nature, from the schools,
Let random influences glance,
Like light in many a shivered lance,
That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. ”Your arrow hath glanced”. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In company I often glanced it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Shooting, as light. [ 1913 Webster ]

When through the gancing lightnings fly. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. glande, L. glans, glandis, acorn; akin to Gr. &unr_; for &unr_;, and &unr_; to cast, throw, the acorn being the dropped fruit. Cf. Parable, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth. (b) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as the pancreas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product. (b) Any very small prominence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. glandage. See Gland. ] A feeding on nuts or mast. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu&unr_;att. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gland. ] (Far.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glandifer; glans, glandis, acorn + ferre to bear; cf. F. glandifère. ] Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glans, glandis, acorn + -form: cf. F. glandiforme . ] Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. glandulaire. See Glandule. ] Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. glandulation. ] (Bot.) The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles. J. Lee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. glandula, dim. of glans, glandis, acorn: cf. F. glandule. See Gland. ] A small gland or secreting vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glandula gland + -ferous; cf. F. glandulifère. ] Bearing glandules. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Glandulous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glandulosus: cf. F. glanduleux. ] Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n.; pl. Glandes [ L. See Gland. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) (a) Goiter. (b) A pessary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. juglans, -andis, a walnut: cf. F. juglandine. ] (Chem.) An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., walnut. ] (Bot.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ See Lieberkuehn. ] (Anat.) The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkuehn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The milk-secreting organ of female mammals.
Syn. -- mamma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To glance over. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from J. K. Peyer, who described them in 1677. ] (Anat.) Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Eng. Law) the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named after Lord Raglan, an English general who was an aide-de-camp to Wellington at Waterlooo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An overcoat with raglan sleeves. [ PJC ]