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gleam
  • n  an appearance of reflected light
  • n  a flash of light (especially reflected light)
  • v  be shiny, as if wet
  • v  shine brightly, like a star or a light
  • v  appear briefly
    A terrible thought gleamed in her mind
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gleaner
  • n  someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
  • n  someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
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gleba
  • n  fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
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glebe
  • n  plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
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glebe house
  • n  a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice)
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glechoma hederaceae
  • n  trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
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gleditsia aquatica
  • n  honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
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gleditsia triacanthos
  • n  tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
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glee
  • n  great merriment
  • n  malicious satisfaction
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