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noun

Glove n.

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.

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."

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.

verb

Glove v. t. (past & past part. gloved; pres. part. gloving) To cover with, or as with, a glove.

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"Glove" Quotes from Famous Books

... years ago; A little glove; a tasselled cap; A half-done "long division" sum; Some school-books fastened with a strap. She touched them all with trembling lips— "How much," she said, "the heart can bear! Ah, Jean! I thought that I should die The day that first ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... wait for the Gazette, gentlemen. The queen and the country will do us justice if his grace denies it us." There were tears of rage in the brave warrior's eyes as he spoke; and he dashed them off his face on to his glove. He shook his fist in the air. "Oh, by the Lord!" says he, "I know what I had rather ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... himself was distinctly at sea with the despised trundling, and succumbed to his second ball, about which he obviously had no idea whatever. At this he breaks down utterly, and, if emotional, will sob into his batting glove. He is assisted down the Pavilion steps, and reaches the wickets in a state of collapse. Here, very probably, a reaction will set in. The sight of the crease often comes as a positive relief after the vague ...

— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse

... Lessing and me, I whispered to somebody who stood there, that I would not touch him unless he touched me; and then I would give it to him in the ribs. I received ten blows on my arm, which is covered wiz a long glove; the eleven, he cut my waistcoat — I had one blow left, and I gave it to him in the ribs so ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... have; everybody knows or has heard of Montijo, the richest man in Cuba—or who was until very recently; but I am afraid that his riches will never be of much use to him again. Why? Simply because the old scoundrel turns out to be hand in glove with the insurgents! He has been helping them most lavishly with money, and it is more than suspected that it is he who is responsible for the importations of arms and supplies of all sorts that have entered the island and reached the hands of the insurgents within the last six months. ...

— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood

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