earthy mass. — Gluten fibrin (Chem.), a vegetable proteid found in the cereal grains, and extracted
as an amorphous, brownish yellow substance.
Gluteus
(||Glu*te"us) n. [NL.] (Anat.) Same as Glutæus.
Glutin
(Glu"tin) n. [See Gluten.] (Chem.)
1. Same as Gliadin.
2. Sometimes synonymous with Gelatin. [R.]
Glutinate
(Glu"ti*nate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutinated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutinating.] [L. glutinatus, p.
p. of glutinare to glue, fr. gluten glue.] To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together. Bailey.
Glutination
(Glu`ti*na"tion) n. [L. glutinatio: cf. F. glutination.] The act of uniting with glue; sticking
together.
Glutinative
(Glu"ti*na*tive) a. [L. glutinativus: cf. F. glutinatif.] Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
Glutinosity
(Glu`ti*nos"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. glutinosité .] The quality of being glutinous; viscousness. [R.]
Glutinous
(Glu"ti*nous) a. [L. glutinosus, fr. gluten glue: cf. F. glutineux. See Gluten.]
1. Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
2. (Bot.) Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland.
Glutinousness
(Glu"ti*nous*ness) n. The quality of being glutinous.
Glutton
(Glut"ton) n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L. gluto, glutto. See Glut.]
1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
2. Fig.: One who gluts himself.
Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.
Granville. 3. (Zoöl.) A carnivorous mammal of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly
believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern
parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
Glutton bird (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); — called also Mother Carey's goose, and
mollymawk.
Glutton
(Glut"ton) a. Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." Dryden.
A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
Fuller. Glutton
(Glut"ton), v. t. & i. To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.]
Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.
Lovelace.
Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.
Drayton. Gluttonish
(Glut"ton*ish), a. Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.
