Glutamic acid, a nitrogenous organic acid obtained from certain albuminoids, as gluten; — called also amido-glutaric acid.

Glutaric
(Glu*tar"ic) a. [Glutamic + tartaric.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.

Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; — called also normal pyrotartaric acid.

Glutazine
(Glu"ta*zine) n. (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine.

Gluteal
(Glu"te*al) a. [G. rump, pl., the buttocks.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutæus.

Gluten
(Glu"ten) n. [L., glue: cf. F. gluten. See Glue.] (Chem.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

Gluten is a complex and variable mixture of glutin or gliadin, vegetable fibrin, vegetable casein, oily material, etc., and is a very nutritious element of food. It may be separated from the flour of grain by subjecting this to a current of water, the starch and other soluble matters being thus washed out.

Gluten bread, bread containing a large proportion of gluten; — used in cases of diabetes.Gluten casein(Chem.), a vegetable proteid found in the seeds of grasses, and extracted as a dark, amorphous,

Glut
(Glut), v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Like three horses that have broken fence,
And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
Tennyson.

Glut
(Glut), n.

1. That which is swallowed. Milton

2. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
Macaulay.

3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

4. (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.] (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. Raymond. (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. Knight. (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln. (e) A block used for a fulcrum.

5. (Zoöl.) The broad-nosed eel found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Glutaconic
(Glu`ta*con"ic) a. [Glutaric + aconitic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.

Glutæus
(||Glu*tæ"us) n. [NL. See Gluteal.] (Anat.) The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

In man, the glutæus is composed of three distinct parts, which extend and abduct the thigh, and help support the body in standing.

Glutamic
(Glu*tam"ic) a. [Gluten + -amic.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to gluten.


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