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| Old English | sp | English |
| Glad | adj | Bright, shining, beautiful. 2. glad with, pleasantly kind, affable. 3. happy or joyfully delighted, happy or pleased. |
| Glad | phr | "Give the Glad Eye" - to give someone the glad eye; that is: the movement of the eyes designed to attract a person of the opposite sex. |
| Glad | phr | "Give the Glad Hand" - to greet cordiality, welcome. |
| Glad | phr | "Glad to Meet You" - greetings on the first occasion of being introduced to, or meeting, somebody. |
| Glad | phr | "Glad to See the Back Of (somebody)" - be pleased when somebody leaves. |
| Glad | phr | "Put on the Glad Rags" - evening dress, or best clothes kept for a special occasion; formal wear. |
| Gladden | vb | To make or become happy. |
| Gladden | phr | "Gladden Somebody's Heart" - to cheer and please somebody. |
| Gladdened | adj | Made happy by, gladdened, gladden. |
| Gladdening | n | The act of making, or the feeling of becoming, happy. |
| Gladdon | n | OE : glaedene; a purple iris, Iris foetidissma, with an unpleasant odor; also called stinking iris. |
| Glad Eye" | n | As to give someone the glad eye; that is: the movement of the eyes designed to attract a person of the opposite sex. |
| Gladful | adj | Full of joy. |
| Gladfullness | n | The quality of being gladful. |
| Gladfully | adv | In a gladful manner. |
| Glad-hand | n | In a cordial welcome, esp. one that is effusive or overly demonstrative. 2. a coupling device used on semi-trailer for attaching air brake lines from the vehicle to the trailer. |
| Glad-hand | vb | To be over friendly with a stranger to gain an advantage. 2. to extend a cordially welcome to someone. |
| Glad-handed | adj | Cordially welcomed. 2. overly-effusive greeted or welcomed with a gain or advantage in mind. |
| Glad-hander | n | One who gives the glad hand. |
| Glad-handing | n | The action of warmly and cordially welcoming others. |
| Glad-hearted | adj | Loving, warm and affectionate. |
| Gladhood | n | The condition or state of being the thing or the being in a role denoted by the word. |
| Gladly | adv | In a happy manner; gladily, happily. |
| Gladness | n | The condition of supreme well-being or good spirit. |
| Glad-sad | adj | Of voice: warbling between happy and less happier quality. 2. vacillating in mood between glad and sad; bi-polarish. |
| Gladship | n | The state of gladness. |
| Gladsome | adj | Causing, feeling, or expressive of joy; joyous, pleasing. 2. having a feeling of joy or pleasure, cheerful. |
| Gladsomely | adv | Gladly. |
| Gladsomeness | n | Gladness. |
| Gladstone | phr | The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "gleoda" meaning a "kite" or "glede" and "stan" a stone. (The stones and rocks of this region were frequented by these birds of prey). The surname from this source is first recorded in the latter half of the 18th Century. |
| Glad-tidings | n | Very good news. |
| Glad-too-soon | adj | Over optimistic |
| Glad wrap | n | A thin plastic film used as a wrapping for food. |
| Glass | n | A small refracting telescope. 2. a container for holding liquids while drinking. 3. glassware collectively "She collected old glass" 4. a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror. 5. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant. 6. the quantity a glass will hold |
| Glass | vb | Put in a glass container.. 2. enclose with glass. 3. furnish with glass, as a windows. |
| Glass | phr | "Glass in" - enclose with glass, as a verandah. |
| Glass | phr | "Those Who Live in Glass Houses, Shouldn't Throw Stones" - critics should be aware of criticisms. |
| Glass-bead | n | Any small, solid or hollow sphere of glass. |
| Glass blower | n | One who viscid molten glass into any form. |
| Glass-blowing | n | The process of blowing viscid molten glass into any form. |
| Glass cleaner | n | A specific formula of cleaning fluid for glass surfaces. |
| Glass cliff | n | A term that describes the phenomenon of women in leadership roles, such as executives in the corporate world and female political election candidates, being likelier than men to achieve leadership roles during periods of crisis or downturn, when the chance of failure is highest. |
| Glass door | n | A door having glass panes of various sizes, color, etc. |
| Glassed | vb | To stab so. in the face with broken glass, usu. a beer glass |
| Glassed-in | adj | Enclosed by glass or panels of glass, usually for protection. |
| Glass eel | n | An elver at the time that it first enters brackish or fresh water, when it is translucent. |
| Glasses | n | Spectacles. |
| Glass-eye | n | Artificial eye made of glass. |
| Glassful | adj | As much as contained in a drinking glass. |
| Glass-half-empty | adj | Pessimistic. |
| Glass-half-full | adj | Optimistic. |
| Glass-hard | adj | As hard as some types of glass. |
| Glasshouse | n | A factory where glass is made. 2. a greenhouse or hothouse. 3. (slang): a military prison. |
| Glassily | adj | In a glassy manner. |
| Glassiness | n | State of being glassy. |
| Glassing | n | The act of glassing: stabbing someone with a broken glass. |
| Glassless | adj | Without glass. |
| Glass-like | adj | Resembling glass. |
| Glass-maker | n | One makes glass. |
| Glass-making | n | The process and manufacturing of glass. |
| Glassman | n | One who sells glass or glassware. |
| Glass snake | n | A slender legless lizard of southern United States having a very brittle tail. 2. a similar lizard of Europe. |
| Glass-spinning | n | The art of drawing out threads of hot glass to form spun glass. |
| Glass wall | n | A wall made from glass. |
| Glassware | n | Articles made of glass. |
| Glass window | n | A window with glass panes. |
| Glasswool | n | Fibres of spun glass of a wool-like appearance; used in fire-proofing fabric, as insulator material as a filter, and in draining wounds. |
| Glasswork | n | The manufacture of glass articles, etc. 2. articles made of glass. |
| Glassworker | n | One who works in the manufacture of glass or glassware. |
| Glassworking | n | The process of the manufacture and production of glass. |
| Glassworks | n | A glass factory; a factory where glass is made. |
| Glassworm | n | The arrow worm. |
| Glasswort | n | Any of several low saline seaside herbs (genus Salicornia) whose ashes where formerly used in glass-making. |
| Glasswright | n | Glazier; glazenwright. |
| Glassy | adj | Composed of or like glass; having a hard fixed appearance. 2. fixed, blank, and uncomprehending; as a 'glassy stare' |
| Glassy-eyed | adj | Fixed, blank, and uncomprehending; as a 'glassy stare'. 2. the look (often) of someone affected by strong drink. |
| Glaze | phr | "Glaze Over" - assume a fixed, trance-like, sightless appearance as though mere objects of glass, perhaps revealing lost interest in something. |
| Glaze | phr | "Glaze Up" - to light up., become more open, as if in expectation. |
| Glazed | adj | Of eyes: showing no liveliness |
| Glazen | adj | Made or consisting of glass. 2. resembling glass, glassy. |
| Glazer | n | One who applies glazing, as in pottery , etc. 2. one who gives a glass-like or glossy surface to anything. 3. one who is prone to endless monologue; derived from the common practice of talking at you until your eyes 'glaze' over. |
| Glazing | n | Glasswork. 2. glass set or made to be in frames. 3. the act or process of applying a glaze. |
| Glazy | adj | Having the appearance of a glaze. |
| Gleam | n | Brilliant light, brightness, hot gleam, warm rays of the Sun. 2. a bright warm interval between rain showers, also a hot wind |
| Gleam | phr | "Gleam in Somebody's Eyes" -something which is anticipated, for a time, with pleasure and desire, but has not yet come about. |
| Gleaminess | n | State of gleaming or shining brightly. |
| Gleaming | adj | Gleaming: having a high radiant sheen. |
| Gleamingly | adv | In a gleaming manner or fashion. |
| Gleamless | adj | That does not gleam; gleamless. 2. lacking brightness or gleam. |
| Gleamly | adv | In a shiny, gleaming, flashing or radiant manner. |
| Gleamy | adj | Darting in beams of light; flashing, gleamy. |
| Glede | n | Locally applied to birds of prey, as the buzzard, kite, osprey and peregrine, falcon. |
| Glee | n | Musical entertainment, music, melody. 2. mirth, joy, feeling of delight, exaltation, prosperity. |
| Glee | phr | "Him No Glee" - nothing gives him delight. |
| Glee | phr | Not with Gold and Glee will She Abide with You. See Glew and Glewing. not for money or music, or a feeling of delight will she be your wife. |
| Glee-beam | n | The harp or gleebeam (poetically.) |
| Glee-craft | n | Gleecraft, music; the music of a minstrel. |
| Gleed | n | Live coal, gleed or ember, cinders, coal used as fuel, a lighting. 2. simile: spark of glede or glede spark. |
| Gleed | vb | To light up, burn; to gleed. |
| Gleed | phr | "Red Hot as Gleed" - very hot. |
| Glee-dream | n | Delight, joy of minstrel-dom. |
| Gleeful | adj | Characterized by joyful exuberance. |
| Gleefully | adj | In a gleeful, gleefully, joyous manner. |
| Gleefulness | n | The state of being gleeful or joyous; gleefulness. |
| Gleeishly | adv | Somewhat gleeish; in a gleeful manner. |
| Gleeman | n | A professional entertainer, musician, singer, minstrel. 2. glee-woman. |
| Glee-singing | n | A vocal composition for three or more unaccompanied solo male voices, including a counter-tenor. |
| Gleesome | adj | Gleeful, joyous. |
| Gleesomely | adv | In a gleeful, joyous manner |
| Gleesomeness | n | The state or quality of being gleesome. |
| Glew | adj | Wise, prudent, clever, (only in OE) |
| Glew | vb | To make merry, to glee, to make happy, to jest, to entertain, to please to play a musical instrument. 2. call loudly. |
| Glewing | n | The playing of music. |
| Glidder | n | A loose stone on a hillside. |
| 'Glidder | vb | To glaze over, cover with ice |
| Glidderly: | adj | With a smooth unimpeded motion; smooth, slippery. 2. treacherous. |
| Glide | n | A gliding movement or motion. 2. a flight in an unpowered aircraft. |
| Glide | vb | To move along by smooth and continuous movement, quietly without effort or difficulty. 2. to fly , or make a flight without motor or engine power. 3. of birds using very little movement of the wings.to go unperceived, quietly and stealthily. |
| Glide | phr | "Glide Along" - move very smoothly across along, or away from. |
| Glideless | adj | Passing from one position of the organs of speech to another without producing a glide (transition sound), as in the case of 'nd' in and. |
| Glidepath | n | An aircraft line of descent to landing, esp. as indicated by ground control. |
| Glider | n | A light without-engine aircraft made to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult. 2. a device that aids gliding. 3. any of several marsupials that glide through the air by extending large folds of skin on the sides of the body between the forelegs, and the hind legs. 4. a pilot of a glider. |
| Glide time | n | A system in which employees work a set number of hours of flexible starting and finishing time. |
| Glidewort | n | An old name for species of Sideritis: ironwort; later for Galeopsis tetrachi. This herb most likely used as a remedy for gout: "Glide" element in the word may be OT for limb. |
| Glim | n. | The eye, a passing look. 2. a scrap. 3. brightness, shine, gleam, glitter. 4. a light, candlestick, lantern. |
| Glimble | n | Glimmer, glimpse |
| Glimmer | vb | To glitter, flash, to give a fake or intermittent light, to shine faintly. 2. to look or glance with half-closed eyes. |
| Glimmer | n | A feeble or wavering light, a sheen, shimmer. 2. a faint glean of knowledge, hope. 3. Slang: a fire; the eye |
| Glimmer-gowk | n | The owl, see Gowk |
| Glimpse | n | Momentarily view; passing flash or appearance; a gleam. |
| The Glimstick | n | A candlestick. |
| Glise | vb | To shine, sparkle, glitter. 2. a glance over |
| Glisk | n | (OE: glisian: to glance): a gleam of light; a glimpse. |
| Glist | n. | A gleam, a glistening |
| Glisten. | n | A sparkle, a glitter. |
| Glisten | phr | "All that Glistens is not Gold" - things are not always what they seem. |
| Glisten | phr | "Glisten With" - be covered, or filled, or specked drops of particles that reflect light. |
| Gloam | n | Twilight, dusk, evening gloom. |
| Gloam | n | The gloaming, the gloom, twilight, dusk, shade, dusky light, gloaming fall, hour or sky. |
| Gloaming | phr | "The Gloaming Shot: the beginning of twilight, a shot in the twilight- |
| Gloom | n | Probably not an Anglish word, as not considered to be related to Old English glom "twilight," but perhaps to Middle Low German glum "turbid," Dutch gluren "to leer." As a verb, from c. 1300 "to look sullen or displeased," perhaps from Scandinavian (cf. Norwegian dialectal glome "to stare somberly"). The noun is 1590s in Scottish, "sullen look," from the verb. Sense of "darkness, obscurity" is first recorded 1629; that of "melancholy" is 1744 (gloomy in this sense is attested from 1580s).a sullen look, frown, scowl. Indefinite degree of darkness or obscurity. A painful or depressing darkness. a deeply shaded or darkened place. a state of, or fits of melancholy or depression. NB: some OE word-books have "aefen-glom" even-gloom: twilight, dusk. |
| Glove | n | Covering for the hand, usu one with a separate sheath for each finger. |
| Glove | phr | "He Bit His Glove" - to resolve on mortal revenge. |
| Glove | phr | "The Gloves" - the sport of boxing |
| Glove | phr | "The Gloves are Off" - the challenge has been accepted |
| Glove | phr | "With the Gloves Off" - mercilessly; unfairly; with no compunction. |
| Glove | phr | "Work Hand In Glove With" - an inseparable association with. |
| Gloved | adj | Wearing glover. |
| Glover | n | One who makes gloves |
| Glove-fight | n | A boxing match with gloves, as opposed to a bare knuckles match. |
| Gloveful | adj | As much as a glove can hold. |
| Glovelike | adj | Resembling a glove or some aspect of. |
| Gloveless | adj | Without gloves. |
| Glove-maker | n | A maker of gloves. |
| Gloveman | n | A gloveman; a maker of gloves. |
| Glover | n | A maker of gloves. |
| Glovesman | n | A maker of gloves; glover. |
| Glovework | n | Ability in sports such as baseball or cricket where gloves are used. |
| Glovewort | n | Hounds tung, lily of the valley, " Convallaria majallis. |
| Glow | vb | Give out light and heat without flames; shine; be or look, very hot, burn with emotion |
| Glow | n | Shining heat; feeling of bodily heat, warmth of colour, ardor |
| Glow | phr | "Glow With" - show, throw out, reflect or be filled with. |
| Glow | phr | "In a Glow" - hot or flushed; sweating. |
| Glow | phr | "With a Warm Inner Glow" - satisfaction at some achievement. |
| Glow-fly | n | Fire-fly |
| Glowing | adj | The action of the verb 'glow' |
| Glowingly | adv | In the manner of something that is glowing. 2. in a glowing. |
| Glow-lamp | n | A light bulb. |
| Glow-stick | n | A self-contained , short-term light source. |
| Glow worm | n | Small luminous worm |
| Glowy | adj | Glowing. |
| Gloze | vb | To interpret; to make glosses; to discourse, to interpose or explain; to comment. |
| Gloze | phr | "Gloze On" - to veil with specious comments; to palliate, to explain away. |
| Glozer | n | A commentator, one who writes glosses. |
| Glozing | n | Flattery, cajoling, coaxing |
| Glum | n | A sullen look, sullenness, glumness. |
| Glum | adj | Of a person: sullen, frowning, having an air of dejecting, esp. to look glum or displeased. 2. of things: gloomy, dark, dismal (now only fig.) |
| Glum-like | adj | Gloomy, sullen, displeased, frowning etc. |
| Glum | vb | To look sullen, to frown, scowl. |
| Glumly | adv | In a glum manner. |
| Glumminess | n | The state or quality of being gloomy, glummy, dismal etc. |
| Glumming | adj | The action of the verb 'to glum' - frowning, scowling, dejection. |
| Glummish | adj | Somewhat glum, dismal, frownish, dejected. |
| Glummy | adj | Gloomly, dismally, frownish, dejected. |