The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . ation of Greek cursive writing; perhaps it isconnected with .Armenian and Albanian alpha-bets. Its use is confined to the liturgical booksof Dalmatian Slavs. Cyril, a monk of Constan-tinople invented the Cyrillac alphabet, of whichthis has sometimes been considered a of these differ from the current Russianalphabet. Glagolitsa. See Glagolitic Glair (Lat. clarus, clear, Fr. clair), thewhite of eggs prepared and used as
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . ation of Greek cursive writing; perhaps it isconnected with .Armenian and Albanian alpha-bets. Its use is confined to the liturgical booksof Dalmatian Slavs. Cyril, a monk of Constan-tinople invented the Cyrillac alphabet, of whichthis has sometimes been considered a of these differ from the current Russianalphabet. Glagolitsa. See Glagolitic Glair (Lat. clarus, clear, Fr. clair), thewhite of eggs prepared and used as a varnishfor preserving paintings. For this purpose it isbeaten to an even consistence, and commonlymixed with alcohol to make it work more freely,and with a little fine sugar to give it body andprevent it cracking, and then spread over thepicture with a soft brush. Bookbinders alsouse it for finishing the leathern backs of books. Glaisher, glasher, James Whitbread, Eng-lish meteorologist: b. Lewisham, Kent, 7 April1809; d. Croydon, Surrey, 7 Feb. 1903. In 1840he became superintendent of the magnetical andmeteorological department of the Royal Ob-. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. GLANCE — GLASGOW servatory, a post which he held for 34 1862 and 1866 he made 28 balloonascents for the purpose of studying the higherstrata of the atmosphere, on one occasion reach-ing a height of over seven miles. He was thefounder of the Royal Meteorological Society,became a Fellow of the Ro>al Society in 1849,and wrote numerous papers on subjects relatingto astronomy and meteorology. Glance, English equivalent of the Germanglaiic, a term applied to opaque minerals ofwhich the high lustre and color indicate theirmetalliferous character. The following are someof them: Antimoiiial copper-glance, or wolchite,sulphide or antimony, copper, and lead, witha little iron; aniimony-glance, or stibnite, sul-phide of antimony; bismuth-glance, or bismuth-inite, sulphide of bismuth; cobalt-glance, orc
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