eaverns of these mountains, whose inner parts, being hollow, afford them a bason. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles.

GLEICHEN (Frederick Von), in biography, was born in the year 1714. He was intended and educated for the profession of arms, and spent the early part of his life as an officer in the service of Bayreuth, and was distinguished by his attention to military discipline. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and obtained the favor of the margrave. In 1756 he obtained a dismission from the service with a handsome pension, to which was afterwards added the rank of privy counsellor. He now had leisure to distinguish himself as a philosopher, a naturalist, and a writer. His attention was accidentally excited to microscopical observations; and, not satisfied with the instruments already in existence, he constructed a universal microscope, with which he combined the solar microscope. He died in June 1783, leaving behind him numerous works in natural history, as Observations on the Parts of Fructification in Plants when in bloom, and on the Insects found in them; History of the Common House Fly; Treatise on seminal Animalcula and infusion Animals; Essay towards the History of the

Tree-louse of the Elm.

For wheresoever the shrieking victim hath Poured forth his blood beneath the assassin's knife, Some hand erects a cross of mouldering lath; And grove and glen with thousand such are rife, Throughout this purple land, where law secures not life. Byron's Childe Harold.

GLENDOWER (Owen), a celebrated Welsh chieftain, was born, as some writers state, May 28th, 1349; or, according to others, on the same day in 1354, at Trefgarn, in Pembrokeshire, of Ellen, a lineal descendant from Catherine, daughter and heiress to Llewellyn, last Prince of Wales. His father Gryffyd Vychan sent him to London for education, where he for a time studied for the English bar, but relinquished the legal profession on being appointed scutiger to Richard II. A contemporary bard, Jolo Goch, describes his family mansion in high terms, and his contest with Reginald lord Grey de Ruthyn respecting an estate called Croesau. On the deposition of his royal patron, by Henry IV., his antagonist prevailed; and, being charged with the delivery of a summons from the new king to Owen to attend him on an expedition, he purposely neglected to deliver it, Glendower was in consequence outlawed; when his enemy Grey seized all his lands, and the parliament utterly neglected his remonstrances. Glendower now forcibly dispossessed Grey of his lands, and,

having raised a large force, caused himself, September 20th, 1400, to be proclaimed prince of Wales, a measure to which he is said to have been incited by some traditionary prophecies of Merlin. In 1402 he made prisoner his old persecutor the lord Grey, and fixed the price of his ransom at 10,000 marks, with a stipulation of neutrality, which was cemented into amity after. wards, by that nobleman marrying Jane, Owen's third daughter. Owen now defeated the king's forces under Sir Edward Mortimer, and was joined by the Percys, as well as occasionally assisted by Charles VI. of France, with whom a treaty of his is still extant, dated 1404, in which he is styled Owenus Dei gratia Princeps Walliæ. He at last caused himself to be formally crowned, at Machynlaeth in Montgomeryshire, as sovereign of Wales. When the rashness of Henry Percy brought on the fatal battle of Shrewsbury before all his Welsh auxiliaries had come up, this prince is said to have been so near as to have reconnoitred the action from the top of a tree, and seeing all was lost, retreated to a marauding warfare. In 1415 Henry condescended to treat with him; but Owen dying on the 20th of September, the negociation was continued and ratified by his son Meredyd ap Owen, February 24th, 1416. Descendants of his are said to be yet living in the family of Monington, at the place of that name in Herefordshire.

GLEW, n. s. Lat. gluten. A viscous cement made by dissolving the skins of animals in boiling water, and drying the gelly.

GLUE.

GLIB, n. s., adj. & v. a. GLIB'LY, adv.

GLIB'NESS, n.s.

See

From Gr. λειος. Any thing smooth S and slippery; when

applied to conversation, it implies volubility:

A polished ice-like glibness doth enfold The rock.

Chapman's Odyssey. I undertook that office, and the tongues Of all his flattering prophets glibbed with lies To his destruction as I had in change. Milton's Paradise Regained. There was never so much glib nonsense put together in well sounding English.

Locke.

Liquid bodies have nothing to sustain their parts, nor any thing to cement them; the parts being glib, and continually in motion, fall off from one another, which way soever gravity inclines them.

Burnet's Theory. Many who would startle at an oath, whose stomachs as well as consciences recoil at an obscenity, do yet slide glibly into a detraction.

Government of the Tongue. The tongue is the most ready for motion of any member, needs not so much as the flexure of a joint, and by access of humours acquires a glibness too, the more to facilitate its moving.

Id.

Oft by the winds, extinct the signal lies; Or smothered in the glimm'ring socket dies.

Gay's Trivia. When rosy morning glimmered o'er the dales, He drove to pasture all the lusty males.

Pope. Long while the silent passion, wanting vent, Made flowing tears her words, and eyes her tongue; Till faith, experience, hope, assistance lent To shut both flood-gates up with patience strong; The streams well ebbed, new hopes some comforts borrow

sorrow.

From firmest truth; then glimpsed the hopeful morrow; So spring some dawns of joy, so sets the night of Fletcher. Purple Island. And the pale smiles of beauties in the grave, The charms of other days in star-light gleams, Glimmer on high.

Byron. GLINUS, in botany, a genus of the pentagynia order, and decandria class of plants; natural class twenty-second, Caryophyllei: CAL. pentaphyllous: COR. none; the nectarium is composed of bifid bristles: CAP. quinqueangular, quinquelocular, quinquevalved, and polyspermous. Species twelve of the most common is the G. vulgaris, the blue daisy, which is common to the south of Europe, and to the Levant.

GLISSON (Francis), a learned English physician of the seventeenth century, who was educated at Cambridge, and made regius professor of the University. In 1634 he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians in London. During the civil wars he practised physic at Colchester, and afterwards settled in London. He greatly improved physic by his anatomical dissections. He wrote, 1. De Rachitide, &c. 2. De Lymphæductis nuper Repertis ; with the Anatomical Prolegomena, et Anatomia Hepatis. 3. De Naturæ Substantia Energetica; seu de Via Vitæ Naturæ, ejusque Tribus Primis Facultatibus, &c. quarto. 4. Tractatus de Ventriculo et Intestinis, &c. He discovered the capsula communis, or vagina portæ. GLIS'TEN, v. n. GLISTER, v. . GLITTER, v. n. & n. s. GLITTERAND, part. GLITTERINGLY, adv.

teren.

Sax. litinan; Ger. gleissen; Dut. glisTo shine brightly; to exhibit lustre. They are words of similar meaning; glitterand, is an old participle, used especially by Chaucer and the old poets; still retained in Scotland: showy or spurious.

His crispe here like ringes was yronne, And that was yelwe, and glitered as the sonne. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale. His glitterand armour shined far away, Like glauncing light of Phoebus' brightest ray; From top to toe no place appeared bare, That deadly dint of steele endanger may.

Spenser. Faerie Queene. Is not from hence the way that leadeth right To that most glorious house that glistereth bright With burning starres. The wars flame most in Summer, and the helmets glister brightest in the fairest sunshine.

'Tis better to be lowly born,

Id.

Spenser.

And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

Shakspeare. Id.

All that glisters is not gold. Steel glosses are more resplendent than the like plates of brass, and so is the glittering of a blade. Bacon's Physical Remains.

When the sword glitters o'er the judge's head, And fear has coward churchmen silenced, And single fights forsaken virtue's cause. Then is the poet's time, 'tis then he draws,

Marvell.

It consisted not of rubies, yet the small pieces of it were of a pleasant reddish colour, and glistered prettily. Boyle.

Before the battle joins, from afar
The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
Dryden's Virgil.

A fresher green the smiling leaves display,
And glittering, as they tremble, cheer the day.
Parnell.
Flourish not too much upon the glitter of fortune,
for fear there should be too much alloy in it.

Collier on Pride. Scarce had'st thou time to unsheath thy conquering blade;

It did but glitter, and the rebels fled. Granville. On the one hand set the most glittering temptations to discord, and on the other the dismal effects of it. Decay of Piety.

and all is turned into such paint and glitter, and Take away this measure from our dress and habits, ridiculous ornaments, as are a real shame to the The ladies' eyes glistened with pleasure.

wearer.

Law.

Richardson's Pamela. In glittering scenes, o'er her own heart severe; In crowds collected; and in courts sincere. Young. Her sky-like arms glittered in golden beams, And brightly seemed to flame with burning hearts; The scorching ray with his reflected streams Fire to their flames, but heavenly fire imparts ; Upon his shield a pair of turtles shone; A lovely pair still coupled, ne'er alone; Her word, 'though one when two, yet either two or Fletcher's Purple Island. What tho' we quit all glittering pomp and greatness, The busy, noisy, flattery of courts, We shall enjoy content; in that alone Is greatness, power, wealth, honour, all summed up. Powel's King of Naples.

none.

And who, in all profound affairs,

Is held as needful as his glister.

Id.

Swift.

glocren). To cast side glances as a timorous lover.

Teach every grace to smile in your behalf, And her deluding eyes to gloat for you.

GLOBE, n. s.

Rowe.

Lat. globus, globosus, GLOBA'TED, adj. globulus; Fr. globe, gloGLOBOSE', adj. bule; Gr. ynλopos. It is GLOBOS'ITY, n. s. properly an irregular GLO'BOUS, adj. round body, and thus GLOB'ULAR, adj. differing from a ball which GLOB'ULE, n. s. is entirely circular. A GLOB'ULOUS, adj. term applied to our earth; GLOBULARIA, n. s. J to the mechanical body which represents it: the various adjectives are applied to matter which assumes this form, as the red particles of blood; spheres of quicksilver; &c.: and to different kinds of plants and flowers, as globe amaranth; globe daisy; globe ranunculus; globe thistle: globularia, a flosculous flower: also to a fish called globe fish. A body of soldiers drawn into a circle.

The astrologer who spells the stars, Mistakes his globe, and in her brighter eye Interprets heaven's physiognomy.

These are the stars,

Cleaveland.

Where is the world of eight years past? 'Twas there I look for it 'tis gone, a globe of glass. Byron.

GLOBE, in geometry. See SPHERE. GLOBE, in geography and astronomy, is particularly used for an artificial sphere of metal, plaster, paper, or other matter; on whose convex surface is drawn a map, or representation either of the earth or heavens, with the several circles conceived thereon. See GEOGRAPHY.

Globes are of two kinds, terrestrial and celestial; each of very considerable use, the one in astronomy, and the other in geography, for performing many of the operations in these sciences, in an easy obvious manner, so as to render them intelligible without any knowledge of the mathematical grounds of them. The fundamental parts, common to both globes, are an axis, representing that of the world; and a spherical shell, or cover, which makes the body of the globe, on the external surface of which the representation is drawn.

OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF GLOBES. The globes most commonly used are made of plaster and paper. A wooden axis is provided somewhat less than the intended diameter of the globe; into the extremes of which two iron wires are driven for poles: this axis is to be the beam, or basis of the whole structure. On the axis are applied two spherical or rather hemispherical caps, formed on a kind of wooden mould or block. These caps consist of pasteboard, or paper, laid in layers, on the mould, to the thickness of a crown-piece; after which, having stood to dry and embody, making an incision along the middle, the two caps thus parted are slipped off the mould. They are next applied on the poles of the axis, as before they were on those of the mould; and, to fix them, the two edges are sewed together with pack-thread, &c. The rudiments of the globe thus laid, it must be strengthened and made smooth and regular. In order to this, the two poles are hasped in a metalline semicircle of the size intended; and a kind of plaster, made of whitening, water, and glue, heated, melted, and incorporated together, portion as the plaster is applied, the ball is is daubed all over the paper surface. In proturned round in the semicircle, the edge whereof pares off whatever is superfluous and beyond the due dimension, leaving the rest adhering in places that are short of it. After such application of the plaster, the ball stands to dry; which done, it is put again in the semicircle, and fresh matter applied: thus they continue alternately to apply the composition, and dry it, till the ball every where accurately touches the semicircle, in which state it is perfectly smooth, regular and firm. The ball thus finished, it remains to paste the map or description thereon: in order to this, the map is projected in several gores, or gussets,