Girvan
Girvan, Police Burgh, Parish And Fishing Town, Ayrshire, Scotland, At The Mouth Of The Girvan, 21 M. S.w. Of Ayr, And 63 M. S.w. Of Glasgow By The L.m.s.r. Pop. (1931) 5,292. The Principal Industry Was Formerly Weaving, But Is Now Fishing, Cod And Oysters Forming The Most Important Catches ...
Gisborne
Gisborne, A Seaport Of New Zealand, In Cook County, Provincial District Of Hawke's Bay, On Poverty Bay Of The East Coast Of North Island. Pop. (1931) 13,880. Wool, Frozen Mutton And Agricultural Produce Are Exported From The Surrounding Dis Trict. Petroleum Has Been Discovered In The Neighbourhood. Near The Site ...
Gislebert Or Gilbert Of
Gislebert Or Gilbert Of Mons (c. 1150-'1225), Flemish Chronicler, Was Provost Of The Churches Of St. Germanus At Mons And St. Alban At Namur. In Official Documents He Is De Scribed As Chaplain, Chancellor Or Notary, Of Baldwin V., Count Of Hainaut (d. 1195), Who Employed Him On Important Business. ...
Gisors
Gisors, A Town Of France, In The Department Of Eure, In The Pleasant Valley Of The Epte, 44 M. N.w. Of Paris On The Railway To Dieppe. Pop. (1931) 5,289. In The Middle Ages Gisors Was Capital Of The Vexin. Its Position On The Frontier Of Normandy Caused Its Possession ...
Giulio Romano Or Giulio
Giulio Romano Or Giulio Pippi The Head Of The Roman School Of Painting In Succession To Raphael. This Prolific Painter, Modeller, Architect And Engineer Receives His Common Appellation From The Place Of His Birth—rome. His Name In Full Was Giulio Di Pietro Di Filippo De' Giannuzzi. Giulio Was Quite Youthful ...
Giun T A Pisano
Giun T A Pisano, Italian Painter Of The 13th Century, A Native Of Pisa. He Died Between 1255 And 1267. It Is Said That He Painted In The Upper Church Of Assisi, Notably A "crucifixion" Dated 1236, With A Figure Of Father Elias, The General Of The Fran Ciscans, Embracing ...
Giurgiu
Giurgiu, The Capital Of The Department Of Vlashca, Ru Mania ; Situated Amid Mud-flats And Marshes On The Left Bank Of The Danube. Pop. (1930) 30,348. Three Small Islands Face The Town, And A Larger One Shelters Its Port, Smarda, 22 M. East. A Railway Runs North To Bucharest And ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882), Italian Patriot, Was Born At Nice On July 4, 180 7. He Entered The Sardinian Navy, And, With A Number Of Companions On Board The Frigate "euridice," Plotted To Seize The Vessel And Occupy The Arsenal Of Genoa At The Moment When Mazzini's Savoy Expedition Should Enter ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi_2
Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1879— ), Italian General, Eldest Son Of Gen. Ricciotti Garibaldi And Grandson Of The Liber Ator, Was Born At Melbourne, July 29, 1879. He Fought Under His Father In The Greco-turkish War In 1897, And Served In The South African War, Subsequently Leading An Adventurous Life In South ...
Giuseppe Giusti
Giusti, Giuseppe (1809-185o), Tuscan Satirical Poet, Was Born At Monsummano, A Small Village Of The Valdinievole, On May 12, 1809. In 1826 He Went To Study Law At Pisa; He Spent Eight Years In The Course, Instead Of The Customary Four. He Lived Gaily, And Learned To Know The World, ...
Giustiniani
Giustiniani, The Name Of A Prominent Italian Family Which Originally Belonged To Venice, But Established Itself Sub Sequently In Genoa Also, And At Various Times Had Representatives In Naples, Corsica And Several Of The Islands Of The Archipelago. In The Venetian Line The Following Are Most Worthy Of Mention : ...
Givet
Givet, Town Of Northern France, In The Department 'of Ar Dennes, 40 M. N. By E. Of Mezieres On The Eastern Railway Between The Town And Namur. Pop. 7 ; Commune, 6,803. Givet Lies On The Meuse Near The Belgian Frontier, And Was Formerly An Important Fortress. It Is Divided ...
Givors
Givors, Manufacturing Town, South-eastern France, Depart Ment Of Rhone, On The Railway Between Lyons And St. Etienne, 14 M. S. Of Lyons. Pop. (1931) 12,54o. It Stands On The Bank Of The Rhone, Here Crossed By A Suspension Bridge, At Its Conflu Ence With The Gier And The Canal Of ...
Gjallar
Gjallar, In Scandinavian Mythology, The Horn Which, When A Stranger Approached, Had To Be Blown By Heimdal. ...
Glabrio
Glabrio. 1. Manius Acilius Glabrio, Roman Statesman And General, Member Of A Plebeian Family. When Consul In 191 B.c. He Defeated Antiochus The Great Of Syria At Thermopylae, And Compelled Him To Leave Greece. Flamininus Interceded To Save The Aetolians. In 189 Glabrio Was A Candidate For The Censorship, But ...
Glace Bay
Glace Bay, A City And Port Of Entry Of Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Canada, On The Atlantic Ocean, 14 M. E. Of Sydney, With Which It Is Connected By Railway. It Is The Centre Of A Coal-producing District. Though It Has A Fair Harbour, Most Of The Shipping Is ...
Glacial Period Or Pleistocene
Glacial Period Or Pleistocene Ice Age, In Geology, Is The Name Given To A Geological Period, Probably Within The Duration Of Man's Occupancy Of Europe, Characterized, Ac Cording To The Now Universal Interpretation, By Cold Conditions Approaching Arctic Severity, The Evidence Of Which Is Contained In Superficial Deposits Extending Over ...
Glacial Period
Glacial Period. Each Of The More Important Varieties Of Rocks And Mineral Species Is Described In Separate Articles; Since, How Ever, Geologists And Mineralogists Have Introduced An Enor Mous Number Of Unnecessary Names For Minor Varieties Of Rocks And Minerals, As Well As For The Smaller Subdivisions Of The Stratified ...
Glacier Bay National Monument
Glacier Bay National Monument, A Reserva Tion (1,820 Sq.m. In Area) In South-eastern Alaska, Extends Inland From Glacier Bay To Include Muir And Brady Glaciers And Ice Covered Peaks Of The First Rank, Among Which Are Mts. Fair Weather, Lituya, La Perouse And Several Others. Besides Con Taining Tidewater Glaciers ...
Glacier
Glacier, A Mass Of Compacted Ice Originating In A Snow Field (french, Glace, Ice, Lat. Glacies) . Glaciers Occur In Those Portions Of The Globe Where The Rate Of Precipitation Is Greater Than The Rate Of Melting Of The Snow. These Conditions Are Ful Filled In High Mountain Tracts And ...
Gladbach
Gladbach, The Name Of Two Towns In Germany Distin Guished As Bergisch-gladbach And Miinchen-gladbach. I. Bergisch-gladbach Is In Rhenish Prussia, 8 M. N.e. Of Cologne By Rail. Pop. It Possesses Four Large Paper-mills And Among Its Other Industries Are Percussion Caps, Nets, Machinery, Iron Founding, And Fire-clay. Ironstone, Peat And ...
Gladiators
Gladiators (from Lat. Gladius, Sword), Professional Com Batants Who Fought To The Death In Roman Public Shows. That This Form Of Spectacle, Which Is Almost Peculiar To Rome And The Roman Provinces, Was Originally Borrowed From Etruria Is Shown By Various Indications. On An Etruscan Tomb Discovered At Tar Quinii ...
Gladiolus
Gladiolus, A Numerous Group (genus) Of Showy Plants Belonging To The Iris Family (iridaceae). They Are Herbaceous Plants Growing From A Solid Fibrous-coated Corm, With Long Narrow Plaited Leaves And A Terminal One-sided Spike Of Generally Bright Coloured Irregular Flowers. The Segments Of The Limb Of The Peri Anth Are ...
Gladsheim
Gladsheim, In Scandinavian Mythology, The Region Of Joy, Home Of Odin And Valhalla (q.v.). ...
Gladstone
Gladstone, A City Of Delta County, Michigan, In The Upper Peninsula, At The Head Of Little Bay De Noc, An Inlet Of Green Bay (lake Michigan). It Is On Federal Highways 2 And 41, And Is Served By The Soo Line Railway. The Population Was 4,953 In 192o And Was ...
Glagolitic
Glagolitic, An Early Slavonic Alphabet In Which Is Written An Early Liturgy Still Used Among The Dalmatians And Roman Catholic Montenegrins By Special Licence Of The Pope. (see Alphabet.) ...
Glair
Glair, The White Of An Egg, Anti Hence A Term For A Prepara Tion Made Of This, Used In Bookbinding And In Gilding To Retain The Gold And As A Varnish. The Adjective "glairy" Is Used Of Sub Stances Having The Viscous And Transparent Consistency Of The White Of An ...
Glamis
Glamis, Village And Parish, Forfarshire, Scotland, 54 M. W. By S. Of Forfar By The L.m.s. Railway. Pop. (1931) 985. The Name Is Sometimes Spelled Glammis And The I Is Mute : It Is De Rived From The Gaelic, Glamhus, "a Wide Gap," "a Vale." In The Village Is A ...
Glamorganshire
Glamorganshire (welsh Morganwg), A Maritime County Occupying The South-east Corner Of Wales, And Bounded North-west By Carmarthenshire, North By Carmarthenshire And Breconshire, East By Monmouthshire And South And South-west By The Bristol Channel And Carmarthen Bay. Area 520,456 Acs. Pop. (1931) 1,225,713. Its Extreme Breadth From The Sea Inland Is ...
Glanders Or Farcy
Glanders Or Farcy (equinia), A Specific Infective And Contagious Disease Prevailing In Most Parts Of The World. Caused By Bacillus Mallei, It Affects Chiefly The Horse, Ass, And Mule But Is Communicable To Man. In Equidae It Is One Of The Most Serious Of Maladies, And Specially Affects The Lungs, ...
Glands
Glands, In Anatomy, Are Composite Masses Of Tissue Vary Ing Widely In Complexity And Size But Agreeing In The Formation Of A Secretion. Every Gland Is Formed By An Ingrowth From An Epithelial Surface. This Ingrowth May From The Beginning Possess A Tubular Structure, But In Other Instances May Start ...
Glanvill
Glanvill (or Glanvil), Joseph (1636-168o), English Philosopher, Was Born At Plymouth And Educated At Oxford. Af Ter The Restoration He Was Successively Rector Of Wimbush, Essex, Vicar Of Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, Rector Of Streat And Wal Ton. In 1666 He Was Appointed To The Abbey Church, Bath; In 1678 He ...
Glarus
Glarus, One Of The Swiss Cantons, The Name Being Taken From That Of Its Chief Town. Its Area Is 264 Square M., Of Which 173.1 Sq.m. Are Classed As "productive" (forests Covering 41 Sq.m.) . It Is Composed Of The Upper Valley Of The Linth Which Rises In The Glaciers ...
Glarus_2
Glarus (fr. Glaris), The Capital Of The Swiss Canton Of The Same Name 42 M. S.e. By Rail From Zurich, Is Connected By Rail With Elm And Linthal. It Is Built On The Left Bank Of The Linth (opposite It Is The Industrial Suburb Of Ennenda On The Right Bank), ...
Glasgow
Glasgow, City, County, Royal Burgh And Port, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Situated On Both Banks Of The Clyde, 401 4 M. N.w. Of London By The West Coast Railway Route, And 47 M. W.s.w. Of Edinburgh By The L.n.e.r. The Valley Of The Clyde Is Closely Confined By Hills, And The City ...
Glasites
Glasites, A Christian Sect, Founded In Scotland By John Glas (q.v.). It Spread Into England And America, But Is Now Practically Extinct. The Name Glasites Or Glassites Was Generally Used In Scotland; In England And America The Name Sandeman Ians Was More Common. Glas Dissented From The Westminster Confession Only ...
Glass Cloth
Glass Cloth. Following The Development In The United States, About The Year 1935, Of A Commercial Method For Producing Glass Fibres, A Variety Of Woven And Braided Glass Textiles Have Been Introduced. Up To 1939 The Use Of Glass Textiles Was Confined Almost Entirely To Industrial And Decorative Purposes. Among ...
Glass Manufacture
Glass Manufacture. The Term "glass" Has Two Meanings, One Used In Science Only, The Other Generally. To The Chemist And Physicist The Word Glass Signifies The Special State Of Matter Assumed When A Liquid Substance Is Cooled Continuously, And, Becoming More And More Viscous, Finally Hardens Without, At Any Stage, ...
Glass Paper
Glass-paper. An Abrasive Material Much Used For Smooth Ing The Surface Of Wood Manufactures. It Consists Of Thick Cart Ridge Paper Coated With Powdered Glass. The Paper Is Coated With Liquid Glue And The Glass Particles Powdered Over The Surface Before The Glue Has Set. (see Also Sand-paper And Emery.) ...
Glass Prints
Glass Prints, Or, As The French Call Them, Clichés-verres, Were An Imitation Of Etchings In The Making Of Which The Barbizon Group Of Artists, Daubigny, Rousseau, Millet And Corot, Would Amuse Their Leisure During The Years Between 1855 And 186o. On A Blackened Piece Of Glass, Covered With A White ...
Glass Safety
Glass : Safety. The Problem Of Overcoming The Danger Of "flying" And Splintering When Glass Is Broken Has, In The Case Of Sheet Glass, Been Overcome In Two Ways. The First Consists In Embedding A Mesh Of Wire In The Glass; The Second By Preparing What May Be Described As ...
Glass
Glass, A Hard Substance, Usually Transparent Or Translucent, Which From A Fluid Condition At A High Temperature Has Passed To A Solid Condition With Sufficient Rapidity To Prevent The Formation Of Visible Crystals. Glass Consists Primarily Of A Combination Of Silicic Acid With An Alkali (potassium Or Sodium). The Combina ...
Glassport
Glassport, A Borough Of Allegheny County, Pa., U.s.a., Iom. S.e. Of Pittsburgh, On The Monongahela River And The Pitts Burgh And Lake Erie Railroad. The Population Was 6,959 In 192o (25% Foreign-born White) And Was 8,390 In 193o By The Federal Census. The Leading Industries Are Glass-making, Copper Welding And ...
Glasswork In Europe
Glasswork In Europe Venice.—although Our Earliest Knowledge Of The Venetian Glass Industry Dates From As Far Back As The Nth Century, No Sign Of Artistic Form Is Met With In Venetian Glass Until The Beginning Of The Renaissance—about The Middle Of The 15th Century—and Then There Is Not A Trace ...
Glasswort
Glasswort, Salicornia Herbacea (also Known As Marsh Samphire), A Salt-marsh Herb, Widely Distributed In The Northern Hemisphere, With Succulent, Jointed, Leafless Stems, In Reference To Its Former Use In Glass-making, When It Was Burnt For Barilla. Salsola Kali, An Allied Plant With Rigid, Fleshy, Spinous-pointed Leaves, Which Was Used For ...
Glastonbury
Glastonbury, A Market Town And Municipal Borough Of Somerset, England, 6 M. S. Of Wells, On The Main Road From Lon Don To Exeter, And On The Somerset And Dorset Railway. Pop. The Town Lies In The Midst Of Orchards And Water Meadows Reclaimed From The Fens Which Surround The ...
Glatz
Glatz (slay. Kladsko), A Town In The Prussian Province Of Silesia, On The Left Bank Of The Neisse, 58 M. S.w. From Breslau By Rail. Pop. (1933) 19,008. The Town With Its Narrow Streets Winds Up The Fortified Hill Which Is Crowned By The Old Citadel. Across The River, On ...
Glaubers Salt
Glauber's Salt, First Described By J. R. Glauber, Occurs Native As The Mineral Mirabilite In Spain, The Western States Of North America, And The Caucasus. Sodium Sulphate Is The Active Principle Of Many Mineral Waters, E.g., Friedrichshall, Carlsbad Waters. It Occurs In Sea Water And Is A Normal Constit Uent ...
Glauchau
Glauchau, A Town Of Germany, In The Land Of Saxony, On The Right Bank Of The Mulde, 7 M. N. Of Zwickau And 17 M. W. Of Chemnitz By Rail. Pop. (1933) 31,193. It Has Important Manufactures Of Woollen And Half-woollen Goods. There Are Also Dye-works, Print-works, And Manufactories Of ...
Glauconite
Glauconite, A Green Mineral, A Hydrous Silicate Of Iron With Potassium. It Especially Occurs In The Green Sands And Muds Which Are Gathering At The Present Time On The Sea Bottom At Many Different Places. The Wide Extension Of These Sands And Muds Was First Made Known By The Naturalists ...
Glaucous
Glaucous, A Word Meaning Of A Sea-green Colour, In Botany Covered With Bloom, Like A Plum Or A Cabbage-leaf. ...
Glaucus
Glaucus, A Word Meaning "bright," And The Name Of Sev Eral Figures In Greek Mythology, The Most Important Of Which Are The Following : I. Glaucus, Surnamed Pontius, A Sea Divinity. Originally A Fisherman And Diver Of Anthedon In Boeotia, Having Eaten A Cer Tain Magical Herb, He Leaped Into ...
Glazing
Glazing. The Business Of The Glazier Is Confined To The Mere Fitting And Setting Of Glass, Even The Cutting Up Of The Plates Into Squares Being Generally An Independent Art, Requiring A Degree Of Skill And Judgment Not Necessarily Possessed By The Building Artificer. The Tools Generally Used By The ...
Glebe
Glebe, In Ecclesiastical Law The Land Devoted To The Main Tenance Of The Incumbent Of A Church. Burn (ecclesiastical Law, S.v. "glebe Lands") Says: "every Church Of Common Right Is Entitled To House And Glebe, And The Assigning Of Them At The First Was Of Such Absolute Necessity That Without ...
Gleditsia
Gleditsia, A Genus Of Thorny Shrubs And Trees Of The Pea Family (leguminosae), Containing Ii Species, Found Chiefly In Subtropical America And Asia. Some Are Used For Hedges And Some Supply Useful Timber, As The Honey Locust (g. Triacanthos) And The Water Locust (g. Aquatica), Of The Eastern And Southern ...
Glee
Glee, A Musical Term Signifying, Broadly Speaking, A Piece Of Concerted Vocal Music, Generally Unaccompanied, And For Male Voices, Though Exceptions Are Found To The Last Two Restrictions. The Number Of Voices Ought Not To Be Less Than Three. As Regards Musical Form, The Glee Is Little Distinguished From The ...
Gleichen
Gleichen, Two Groups Of Castles In Germany, Thus Named From Their Resemblance To Each Other (ger. Gleich =like) . The First Is A Group Of Three, Each Situated On A Hill In Thuringia Be Tween Gotha And Erfurt. One Of These Called Gleichen, The Wanderslebener Gleiche (1,221 Ft. Above The ...
Gleiwitz
Gleiwitz, A Town In The Prussian Province Of Silesia, On The Klodnitz, And The Railway Between Oppeln And Cracow, 4o M. S.e. Of The Former Town. Pop. (187 5) 14,156; (1933) 111 ,081. Gleiwitz Is The Centre Of The Mining Industry Of Upper Silesia. There Are Also Foundries With Which ...
Glen Cove
Glen Cove, A City Of Nassau County, New York, On The North Shore Of Long Island, 22 M. N.e. Of The Brooklyn Borough Hall. It Is Served By The Long Island Railroad. The Population In 1930 Was 11,430. Glen Cove Was Settled In 1668; Chartered As A City In 1918; ...
Glen Grey
Glen Grey, A Division Of The Cape Province South Of The Stormberg, Adjoining On The East The Transkeian Territories. Pop. (1926), C. 65,800. Chief Town, Lady Frere, 32 M. N.e. Of Queens Town. The District Is Well Watered And Fertile, And Large Quantities Of Cereals Are Grown. Over 96% Of ...
Glen Ridge
Glen Ridge, A Residential Borough Of Essex County, New Jersey, U.s.a., 6 M. N. Of Newark; Served By The Erie And The Lackawanna Railways. The Population In 1930 Was 7,365. ...
Glenalmond
Glenalmond, A Glen Of Perthshire, Scotland, South-east Of Loch Tay. It Comprises The Upper Two-thirds Of The Course Of The Almond, Or A Distance Of 20 M. For The Greater Part It Follows A Direction East By South, But At Newton Bridge It Inclines Sharply To The South-east For 3 ...
Glencoe
Glencoe, A Glen In Scotland, Situated In The North Of Ar Gyllshire. Beginning At The North-eastern Base Of Buchaille Etive, It Takes A Gentle North-westerly Trend For Io M. To Its Mouth On Loch Leven, A Salt-water Arm Of Loch Linnhe. On Both Sides It Is Shut In By Wild ...
Glendale
Glendale, A Rapidly Growing City Of Los Angeles County, Calif., U.s.a., 6 M. From The Heart Of Los Angeles, At The Southern Extremity Of The San Fernando Valley. It Is Served By The Pacific Electric, The Southern Pacific And The Union Pacific Railways. The Population Was 2,746 In 1910; In ...
Glenelg
Glenelg, A Municipal Town And Watering Place Of Adelaide County, South Australia, 62 M. By Rail S.s.w. Of The City Of Ade Laide. It Is Connected With Adelaide By Two Lines Of Railway. In The Vicinity Is The "old Gum Tree" Under Which South Australia Was Proclaimed British Territory By ...
Glengarriff Or Glengariff
Glengarriff Or Glengariff, A Tourist Resort In Co. Cork, Ireland, On An Inlet Of Bantry Bay, 11 M. From Bantry. A Mountain Road From Macroom, And A Branch Line From The North, Facilitate Tourist Traffic. The Harbour Has Been Described By Thackeray. ...
Glens Falls
Glens Falls, A City Of Warren County, New York, U.s.a., On The Hudson River, 6o M. Above Albany. It Is On Federal High Ways 4 And 9; Has An Airport ; And Is Served By The Delaware And Hudson Railway. The Population Was 16,638 In 192o (89% Native White) And ...
Glentilt
Glentilt, A Glen In The Extreme North Of Perthshire, Scot Land, Following A South-westerly Direction Excepting For The Last 4 M., When It Runs Due South To Blair Atholl. It Is Watered By The Tilt. Carn Nan Gabhar (3,671 Ft.) Is The Highest Hill In The Beinn A-ghlo Range Which ...
Gliding
Gliding Is A Generic Term For The Art Of Flying A Heavier Than Air Craft Similar To An Aeroplane But Not Provided With An Engine. In Includes In Its Scope Both Gliding Proper And Soaring. In A Gliding Flight, The Apparatus Loses Altitude Continually Through Out Its Course, Never Rising ...
Globe Fish Or Sea Hedgehog
Globe-fish Or Sea-hedgehog, The Name Of Some Sea-fishes Of The Families Diodontidae And Tetrodontidae, Which Have The Faculty Of Inflating Their Stomachs With Air Or Water. Their Jaws Resemble The Beak Of A Parrot, The Bones And Teeth Be Ing Coalesced Into One Sharp-edged Mass. By Means Of These They ...
Globe
Globe, A City Of Arizona, U.s.a., 75m. E. By S. Of Phoenix, On Federal Highway 18o And The Southern Pacific Railway; The County Seat Of Gila County. The Population Was 7,044 In 1920, And Was 7,157 In 1930 Federal Census. It Is The Centre Of A Cattle Raising And Copper-mining ...
Globeflower
Globeflower, A Genus Of Ranunculaceae (q.v.), Which Takes It Name From The Special Shape And Formation Of The Flower. There Are Several Species Including The Spreading Globeflower (trollies Laxus), Native To Certain Parts Of America, Especially The Rocky Mountains, And The Common Globeflower (t. Europeus) Which Is Extensively Cultivated In ...
Globigerina
Globigerina, A Genus Of Perforate Foraminifera (q.v.) Of Pelagic Habit, And Formed Of A Conical Spiral Aggregate Of Spheroidal Chambers With A Crescentic Mouth. The Shells Accumu Late At The Bottom Of Moderately Deep Seas To Form "globigerina Ooze" And Are Preserved Thus In The Chalk. Hastigerina Only Differs In ...
Gloria
Gloria, In General A Doxology Or Ascription Of Praise, Spe Cifically Two Ancient Latin Hymns Gloria In Excelsis And Gloria Patri, Referred To Sometimes As The Greater And The Lesser Dox Ology Respectively, And Employed In The Services Of The Catholic Church. The Former, Known As The Angelic Hymn, On ...
Gloriosa
Gloriosa, In Botany, A Small Genus Of Plants Of The Family Liliaceae, Natives Of Tropical Asia And Africa. They Are Bulbous Plants, The Slender Stems Of Which Support Themselves By Tendril Like Prolongations Of The Tips Of Some Of The Narrow Generally Lanceolate Leaves. The Flowers, Which Are Borne In ...
Gloss And Glossary
Gloss And Glossary. The Greek Word Yxwaaa (glossa), Meaning Originally A Tongue, Then A Language Or Dialect, Gradually Came To Denote Any Obsolete, Foreign, Provincial, Tech Nical Or Otherwise Peculiar Word Or Use Of A Word (see Arist. Rhet. Iii. 3, 2) . The Making Of Collections And Explanations Of ...
Glossop
Glossop, Market Town, Municipal Borough, High Peak Par Liamentary Division, Derbyshire, England, 13 M. E. Of Manchester By The L.n.e. Railway. Pop. (1931) 19,51o. It Is The Chief Seat Of The Cotton Manufacture In Derbyshire, And Has Also Woollen And Paper Mills, Dye, Print And Bleaching Works. The Town Consists ...
Gloucester City
Gloucester City, A City Of Camden County, New Jer Sey, On The Delaware River, Opposite Philadelphia, Adjoining Camden On The South. It Is Served By The Pennsylvania And The Reacting Railways. The Population Was 12,162 In 1920; 193o It Was 13,796. Its Manufactures Include Paper, Cotton And Silk Fabrics, Rugs, ...
Gloucester
Gloucester (abbreviated As Pronounced Glo'ster), City, Port And County Town, Gloucestershire, England, On The River Severn, 114 M. W. Of London. Pop. (1931) 52•937. It Is Served By The G. W. And L.m.s. Railways, While The Berkeley Ship Canal Runs South-west To Sharpness Docks In The Severn Estuary (161 M.). ...
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire, A County Of The West Midlands Of England, Bounded By Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Monmouth And Herefordshire. Its Area Is 1,255 Square Miles. Physical Features.—the Outline Is Very Irregular, But Three Physical Divisions Are Well Marked—the Hills, The Vale And The Forest. (1) The First (the Eastern ...
Gloucester_2
Gloucester, A City Of Essex County, Massachusetts, 28 M. N.e. Of Boston, Occupying 31 Sq.m. On Cape Ann ; A Port Of Entry, A Summer Resort, And The Greatest Salt-fishing Port Of The Country. It Is Served By The Boston And Maine Railroad And By Steamers To Boston. The Resident ...
Glove Manufacture
Glove Manufacture. Modern Gloves Fall Naturally Into Two Main Groups: (i) Leather Gloves; (2) Fabric And Knitted Gloves. The Character Of A Leather Glove Depends Partly Upon The Type Of Skin Used, But More Particularly Upon The Processes By Which The Leather Is Produced. ...
Glove
Glove, A Covering For The Hand, Commonly With A Separate Sheath For Each Finger. The Use Of Gloves Is Of High Antiquity, And Apparently Was Known Even To The Pre-historic Cave Dwellers. In Homer Laertes Is Described As Wearing Gloves In His Garden. Herodotus Tells How Leotychides Filled A Glove ...
Gloversville
Gloversville, A City Of Fulton County, New York, In The Foot-hills Of The Adirondacks, 45m. N.w. Of Albany. It Is Served By The Fonda, Johnstown And Gloversville Railroad, Con Necting At Fonda, 7m. S., With The New York Central. The Popu Lation Was 22,075 In 192o (82% Native White) And ...
Gloxinia
Gloxinia, A Charming Decorative Plant, Sinningia Speciosa A Member Of The Family Gesneraceae And A Native Of Brazil. The Species Has Given Rise Under Cultivation To Numerous Forms Show Ing A Wonderful Variety Of Colour, And Hybrid Forms Have Also Been Obtained Between These And Other Species Of Sinningia. A ...
Glozel
Glozel. The Hamlet Of Glozel Is 20 Km. South-east Of Vichy, Department Of Allier. On March 1, 1924, The Son Of A Local Farmer Named Fradin Discovered The Remains Of A Glass Furnace Of Some Antiquity Of A Type Not Uncommon In That Region. In April 1925 Dr. Morlet, In ...
Glucinum
Glucinum, An Alternative Name For The Metal Beryllium (q.v.). When L. N. Vauquelin In 1798 Published In The Annales De Chimie An Account Of A New Earth Obtained By Him From Beryl He Refrained From Giving The Substance A Name, But In A Note To His Paper The Editors Suggested ...
Glucksburg
Glucksburg, A Town Of Germany, In The Prussian Prov Ince Of Schleswig-holstein, On The Flensburg Fjord, 6 M. N.e. From Flensburg By Rail. Pop. (1933) 1,792. It Is A Sea-bathing Resort. The Castle Occupies The Site Of A Former Cistercian Monastery. ...
Gluckstadt
Gluckstadt, A Town Of Germany, In The Prussian Prov Ince Of Schleswig-holstein, On The Right Bank Of The Elbe, 28 M. N.w. Of Altona, By Rail. Pop. It Was Founded By Christian Iv. Of Denmark In 1617, Fortified In 1620, And Soon Became An Important Trading Centre. In 1627-28 It ...
Glucose
Glucose Occurs Abundantly In Animals And Plants, Either Alone Or In Combination, Combined With Fructose (fruit-sugar Or Laevulose) As Sucrose (cane-sugar), With Galactose As Lactose (milk Sugar), With Itself As Maltose (malt-sugar), And So On. It Is An Aldose (aldehyde-alcohol) Of The Hexose Class, Having The Formula And Is Also ...
Glue
Glue, A Valuable Agglutinant, Consisting Of Impure Gelatin And Widely Used As An Adhesive Medium For Wood, Leather, Paper And Similar Substances. Glues And Gelatins Merge Into One Another By Imperceptible Degrees. The Difference Is Conditioned By The Degree Of Purity; The More Impure Form Is Termed Glue And Is ...
Glutaric Acid
Glutaric Acid Is Found In The Wash Water From Sheep's Wool And In The Unripe Sap Of Sugar Beet. It Crystallizes In Large Monoclinic Prisms Which Melt At 97.5° C, And Distils Between 302° And 304° C, Practically Without Decomposition. It Is Soluble In Water, Alcohol And Ether. Its Chemical ...
Gluten
Gluten, A Tough, Tenacious, Ductile, Somewhat Elastic, Nearly Tasteless, And Greyish-yellow Albuminous Substance, Ob Tained From The Flour Of Wheat By Washing In Water, In Which It Is Insoluble. Gluten, When Dried, Loses About Two-thirds Of Its Weight, Becoming Brittle And Semi-transparent ; When Strongly Heated It Crackles And Swells, ...
Glutton Or Wolverine
Glutton Or Wolverine (gulo Luscus), A Carnivor Ous Mammal Of The Weasel Family, Mustelidae (see The Legs Are Short, The Feet Large, The Claws Sharp And Curved, And The Tail Thick And Bushy. The Fur, Blackish-brown, With A Broad Band Of Chestnut On The Sides Of The Body, Consists Of ...
Glycerides
Glycerides Are One Of Nature's Usual Modes Of Storing Up Reserves, In The Vegetable Or Animal Realms, In The Form Of Stable Compounds Containing Carbon, Hydrogen, And Oxygen. They Constitute, In Fact, Over 90% Of The Substances Present In Vege Table And Animal Oils, Fats, And Waxes (qq.v.), And The ...
Glycerine Glycerol
Glycerine (glycerol), In Pharmacy Glycerinum, Was Discovered By Scheele In Olive Oil In 1779 And Named Olsiiss. Chevreul Studied It More Fully In Connection With His Work On The Fats About 1813 And Gave It Its Present Name (gr. 'yavxin, Sweet) ; Whilst Pelouze (1836), Berthelot And Others Established Its ...
Glycogen In Relation To
Glycogen (in Relation To Muscular Contraction) : See Muscle And Muscular Exercise. ...
Glycols
Glycols, The Generic Name Applied To Dihydric Alcohols On Account Of Their Sweet Taste (see Chemistry: Organic). The Simplest Member Of The Series, Ethylene Glycol, Is A Colourless, Fragrant, Oily Liquid Boiling At 197.4° C, Melting At —17.4° C And Having A Specific Gravity Of 1.125 At O° C. It ...
Glyconic
Glyconic, A Form Of Aeolic Verse, Which May Be De Scribed As A Combination Of One Or More Dactyls (or Perhaps Cho Riambi) With Shorter Feet. But The Commonest Is .. , , _ 1/4, Y., Often Called Simply A Gly Conic ; This Is A Great Favourite Of Catullus ...
Glyoxalines
Glyoxalines Owe Their Interest To The Fact That They Are Degradation Products Of Certain Alkaloids (q.v.), And That A Member Of The Group Arises From The Decomposition Of Sugars Such As Glucose With Ammonia. They Are Organic Compounds Of Carbon, Hydrogen And Nitrogen, And Contain The Ring System Shown In ...