GLOVE

glove

(noun) handwear: covers the hand and wrist

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

glove (plural gloves)

An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

A baseball mitt.

(baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.

(slang) A condom.

(with definite article) A challenge from one to another.

Verb

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

(baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

(transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.

(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.

Anagrams

• Vogel, vogle, volge

Source: Wiktionary

Glove, n. Etym: [OE. glove, glofe, AS. gl; akin to Icel. gl, cf. Goth. l palm of the hand, Icel. l.]

1. A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finder. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.

2. A boxing glove. Boxing glove. See under Boxing.

– Glove fight, a pugilistic contest in wich the fighters wear boxing gloves.

– Glove money or 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 country to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed.

– Glove sponge (Zoöl.), 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gloved; p. pr. & vb. n. Gloving.]

Definition: To cover with, or as with, a glove.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition