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Webster 1913 Edition

Glove

Glove

(glŭv)
,
Noun.
[OE.
glove
,
glofe
, AS.
glōf
; akin to Icel.
glōfi
, cf. Goth.
lōfa
palm of the hand, Icel.
lōfi
.]
1.
A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
2.
A boxing glove.
Boxing glove
.
See under
Boxing
.
–
Glove fight
,
a pugilistic contest in which the fighters wear boxing gloves.
–
Glove money
or
Glove silver
.
(a)
A tip or gratuity to servants, professedly to buy gloves with.
(b)
(Eng. Law.)
A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the sheriff of a county to the clerk of assize and judge’s officers, when there are no offenders to be executed.
–
Glove sponge
(Zool.)
,
a fine and soft variety of commercial sponges (
Spongia officinalis
).
–
To be hand and glove with
,
to be intimately associated or on good terms with.
“Hand and glove with traitors.”
J. H. Newman.
–
To handle without gloves
,
to treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with.
[Colloq.]
–
To take up the glove
,
to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.
–
To throw down the glove
,
to challenge to combat.

Glove

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gloved
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gloving
.]
To cover with, or as with, a glove.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glove

GLOVE

,
Noun.
A cover for the hand, or for the hand and arm, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter circumstance distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
To throw the glove, with our ancestors, was to challenge to single combat.

GLOVE

,
Verb.
T.
To cover with a glove.

Definition 2024

glove

glove

English

cotton gloves with grips

Noun

glove ‎(plural gloves)

  1. An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.
    I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.‎
    The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.‎
  2. A baseball mitt.
  3. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
    Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.‎
  4. (slang) A condom.

Translations

Verb

glove ‎(third-person singular simple present gloves, present participle gloving, simple past and past participle gloved)

  1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
    He gloved the line drive for the third out.
  2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
    Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
      After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
  3. (cricket) To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

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Etymology

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan ‎(“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô ‎(“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- ‎(“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô ‎(“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- ‎(“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive ‎(“glove”), Icelandic glófi ‎(“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe ‎(“palm of the hand”). More at loof.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: glŭv, IPA(key): /ɡlʌv/
  • Rhymes: -ʌv

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