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1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §43 There is therefore a secret glome or bottome of our days. View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Glome, a clue, or bottom of thread.
2. Botany. = glomerule n. 1.
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1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. I4v Glomus, a Glome, or roundish head of flowers.
1890 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 99 The flood Doth sometimes stain the marsh-flowers' moon-white glomes.
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3. ‘ Glome of frog: Bracey Clark's name for the two rounded, elastic eminences, separated by a cleft, which form the posterior extremity or base of the frog of the horse's foot’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1885).
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