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Gluer
(Glu"er) n. One who cements with glue.

Gluey
(Glu"ey) a. Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

Glueyness
(Glu"ey*ness), n. Viscidity.

Gluish
(Glu"ish), a. Somewhat gluey. Sherwood.

Glum
(Glum) n. [See Gloom.] Sullenness. [Obs.] Skelton.

Glum
(Glum), a. Moody; silent; sullen.

I frighten people by my glun face.
Thackeray.

Glum
(Glum), v. i. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.

Glumaceous
(Glu*ma"ceous) a. [Cf. F. glumancé. See Glume.] Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

Glumal
(Glu"mal) a. (Bot.) Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.

Glume
(Glume) n. [L. gluma hull, husk, fr. glubere to bark or peel: cf. F. glume or gloume.] (Bot.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelet. Gray.

Glumella
(Glu*mel"la Glu"melle) n. [F. glumelle, dim. of glume.] (Bot.) One of the palets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Glumly
(Glum"ly) adv. In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

Glummy
(Glum"my) a. [See Gloom.] Dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

Glumness
(Glum"ness), n. Moodiness; sullenness.

Glump
(Glump) v. i. [See Glum.] To manifest sullenness; to sulk. [Colloq.]

Glumpy
(Glump"y) a. Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

Glunch
(Glunch) a. [Cf. Glump.] Frowning; sulky; sullen. Sir W. Scott.n. A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Glut
(Glut) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]

1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at widest to glut him.
Shak.

2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
Dryden.
The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
C. Kingsley.

To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.