ted by a minute application of black-lead; reputed to be
very slightly weaker than the original, and somewhat less liable to
deterioration.

GLEN. An Anglo-Saxon term denoting a dale or deep valley; still in use
for a ravine.

GLENT, TO. To turn aside or quit the original direction, as a shot does
from accidentally impinging on a hard substance.

GLIB-GABBET. Smooth and ready speech.

GLIM. A light; familiarly used for the eyes.--_Dowse the glim_, put out
the light.

GLOAMING. The twilight. Also, a gloomy dull state of sky.

GLOBE RANGERS. A soubriquet for the royal marines.

GLOBULAR SAILING. A general designation for all the methods on which the
rules of computation are founded, on the hypothesis that the earth is a
sphere; including great circle sailing.

GLOG. The Manx or Erse term which denotes the swell or rolling of the
sea after a storm.

GLOOM-STOVE. Formerly for drying powder, at a temperature of about
140 deg.; being an iron vessel in a room heated from outside, but
steam-pipes are now substituted.

GLOOT. _See_ GALOOT.

GLOWER, TO. To stare or look intently.

GLUE. _See_ MARINE GLUE.

GLUM. As applied to the weather, overcast and gloomy. Socially, it is a
grievous look.

GLUT. A piece of wood applied as a fulcrum to a lever power. Also, a bit
of canvas sewed into the centre of a sail near the head, with an
eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through.
Glut used to prevent slipping, as sand and nippers glut the messenger;
the fall of a tackle drawn across the sheaves, by which it is choked or
glutted; junks of rope interposed between the messenger and the whelps
of the capstan.

GLYN. A deep valley with convex sides. (_See_ CWM.)

GNARLED. Knotty; said of timber.

GNARRE. An old term for a hard knot in a tree; hence Shakspeare's
"unwedgeable and gnarled oak."

GNOLL. A round hillock. (_See_ KNOLL.)

GNOMON. The hand; style of a dial.

GO! A word sometimes given when all is ready for the launch of a vessel
from the stocks.

GO AHEAD! OR GO ON! The order to the engineer in a steamer.

GO ASHORE, TO. To land on leave.

GO ASHORES. The seamen's best dress.

GOBARTO. A large and ravenous fish of our early voyagers, probably a
shark.

GOBBAG. A Gaelic name for the dog-fish.

GOB-DOO. A Manx term for a mussel.

GOBISSON. _Gambesson_; quilted dress worn under the habergeon.

GOBLACHAN. A Gaelic name for the parr or samlet.

GOB-LINE. _See_ GAUB-LINE.