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glome

/ˈɡləʊm/US/ˈɡloʊm/

glome noun: one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.

Noun (1)

glome (plural glomes)

  1. One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  2. A globular head of flowers.
  3. 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.

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

  1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.
    • Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
      Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glomea. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

Noun (2)

glome

  1. (obsolete) gloom or gloam

Forms of glome

Noun
pluralglomes
Verb
third-person singular presentglomes
present participlegloming
past participleglomed
pastglomed

Origin of glome

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom.

Words that rhyme with glome

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Questions about glome

What does glome mean?
Glome means one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
What part of speech is glome?
Glome can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce glome?
Glome is pronounced /ˈɡləʊm/ (UK).
What is the plural of glome?
The plural of glome is glomes.

Words near glome in the dictionary

  1. glombing on
  2. glombing onto
  3. glombs
  4. glombs on
  5. glombs onto
  6. glome
  7. glomectomies
  8. glomectomy
  9. glomed
  10. glomelliferic acid
  11. glomera

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