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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.
Noun
glome (plural glomes)
- (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
- (botany) A globular head of flowers.
- (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.
Etymology 2
An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom.
Verb
glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)
- (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate:Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome
Noun
glome
- (obsolete) gloom
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