1. The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.
2. That which is formed into a ball; a ball. Bacon.
Glomerous
(Glom"er*ous) a. [L. glomerosus, fr. glomus. See 3d Glome.] Gathered or formed into
a ball or round mass. [Obs.] Blount.
Glomerule
(Glom"er*ule) n. [Dim. fr. L. glomus ball.]
1. (Bot.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering
dogwood.
2. (Anat.) A glomerulus.
Glomerulus
(||Glo*mer"u*lus) n.; pl. Glomeruli [NL., dim. of L. glomus. See 3d Glome.] (Anat.)
The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
Glomuliferous
(Glom`u*lif"er*ous) a. [L. glomus a ball + -ferous.] (Biol.) Having small clusters of minutely
branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.
Glonoin
(Glon"o*in Glon"o*ine) n. [Glycerin + oxygen + nitrogen + -in, -ine.]
1. Same as Nitroglycerin; — called also oil of glonoin. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.
Gloom
(Gloom) n. [AS. glom twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]
1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.
Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
Burke. 4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
Syn. — Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See
Darkness.
Gloom
(Gloom), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
Goldsmith.
[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
Spenser. Gloom
(Gloom), v. t.
