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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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Etymology of 'Glove'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glove" Quotes from Famous Books

... door I took off my glove. It was done unconsciously, but she saw it—she took off one of hers. Then she laughed and put her hand ...

— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child

... the utmost gratitude," said Miss Rose Fletcher, extending a little hand in a wonderful loose gray travelling glove. Mrs. Whitman took the offered hand and let it drop. She was rigid and prim. She smiled, but the smile was merely a widening of her thin, pale, compressed lips. She looked at the girl with gray eyes, which had a curious blank sharpness in them. Rose Fletcher was so ...

— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... had bought a large bill of Christmas fancy-goods—celluloid toilette sets, leather collar boxes, velvet glove cases. Among the lot was a photograph album in the shape of a huge acorn done in lightning-struck plush. It was a hideous thing, and expensive. It stood on a brass stand, and its leaves were edged in gilt, and its color was a nauseous green and blue, and it was altogether the sort of thing to ...

— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... look'd dark and lowering. At last, the work, (black stuff or Silk) was taken away, I got my Chair in place, had some Converse, but very Cold and indifferent to what 'twas before. Ask'd her to acquit me of Rudeness if I drew off her Glove. Enquiring the reason, I told her twas great odds between handling a dead Goat, and a living Lady. Got it off. I told her I had one Petition to ask of her, that was, that she would take off the Negative she laid on me the third of October; She readily answer'd ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... he had been able to pick up the glove she had thrown down with such a flourish elated him strangely. To kiss My Lady Disdain upon the mouth—that was an answer. That would teach her to draw upon an unarmed man. For she had thought him weaponless. What footman carries a sword? And then, in the nick ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

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