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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'

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"Glove" Quotes from Famous Books

... a princess, took off her glove before giving me her hand to kiss, mentioned my name before five or six strangers who were present, and whose names she gave me, and invited me to take a seat near her. As she was a native of Venice, I thought it was absurd for her to speak French ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... needed, and the work had to go on. Russ had one of his hands slightly frost-bitten using it without a glove to make some adjustments to his camera, and the tips of Mr. Sneed's ears were nipped with ...

— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope

... had been on the continual worry about her ever since they left Yorkbury, afraid she would catch cold in the draft, lose her glove out of the window, go out on the platform, or fall in stepping from car to car, Gypsy did not pay the immediate heed to his warning that she ought to have done. Before he had time to speak again, puff! came a sharp gust of wind ...

— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... and deigned to drink my health when I presented her with the last glass, and to thank me for all my attentions.[1] Indeed my memory de la vieille cour was but once in default. As I had been assured that her Majesty would be attended by her Chamberlain, yet was not, I had no glove ready when I received her at the step of her coach: yet she honoured me with her hand to lead her up stairs; nor did I recollect my omission when I led her down again. Still, though gloveless, I did ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... Duane felt that he would have enjoyed such a beautiful spot. Euchre's shack sat against the first rise of the slope of the wall, and Duane, by climbing a few rods, got a view of the whole valley. Assuredly it was an outlaw settle meet. He saw a good many Mexicans, who, of course, were hand and glove with Bland. Also he saw enormous flat-boats, crude of structure, moored along the banks of the river. The Rio Grande rolled away between high bluffs. A cable, sagging deep in the middle, was stretched over the wide yellow stream, and an old scow, ...

— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey

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