=Glau´ce= (2 _syl._), nurse of the Princess Brit´omart. She tried by charms to “undo” her lady’s love for Sir Artegal, “but love that is in gentle heart begun, no idle charm can remove.” Finding her sorcery useless, she took the princess to consult Merlin, and Merlin told her that by marrying Artegal she would found a race of kings from which would arise “a royal virgin that shall shake the power of Spain.” The two now started in quest of the knight, but in time got separated. Glaucê became “the squire” of Sir Scu´damore, but re-appears (bk. iii. 12) after the combat between Britomart and Artegal, reconciles the combatants, and the princess consents “to be the love of Artegal, and to take him for her lord” (bk. iv. 5, 6).—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_ (1590, 1596). =Glaucus=, accomplished young Athenian, whose house in Pompeii is a marvel of beauty and taste. He loves Ione, and is beloved by Nydia, the blind flower-girl. He is rescued from a terrible fate in the ampitheatre by the eruption of Vesuvius, escapes from the city, guided by Nydia, and weds Ione.—E. L. Bulwer, _Last Days of Pompeii_ (1834). _Glaucus_, a fisherman of Boæ´tia. He observed that all the fish which he laid on the grass received fresh vigor, and immediately leaped into the sea. This grass had been planted by Kronos, and when Glaucus tasted it, he also leaped into the sea, and became a prophetic marine deity. Once a year he visited all the coasts of Greece, to utter his predictions. Glaucus is the sailors’ patron deity. [_By_] old soothsaying Glaucus’ spell. Milton, _Comus_, 874 (1634). As Glaucus, when he tasted of the herb That made him peer among the ocean gods. Dante, _Paradise_, i. (1311). _Glaucus_, son of Hippolytus. Being smothered in a tub of honey, he was restored to life by [a] dragon given him by Escula´pios (probably a medicine so called.)—Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, 23. _Glaucus_, of Chios, inventor of the art of soldering metal. Pausanias, _Itinerary of Greece._ _A second Glaucus_, one who ruins himself by horses. This refers to Glaucus, son of Sis´yphos, who was killed by his horses. Some say he was trampled to death by them, and some that he was eaten by them. _Glauci et Diomēdis permutatio_, a very foolish exchange. Homer (_Iliad_, vi.) tells us that Glaucus changed his golden armor for the iron one of Diomēdês. The French say, _C’est le troc de Glaucus et de Diomede_. This Glaucus was the grandson of Bellerophon. (In Greek, “Glaukos.”) =Glegg= (_Mrs._),one of the Dodson sisters in George Eliot’s _Mill on the Floss_, and the least amiable. When displeased or thwarted she takes to her bed, reads _Baxter’s Saints’ Rest_, and lives on water-gruel. =Glenallan= (_Joscelind, dowager countess of_), whose funeral takes place by torchlight in the Catholic chapel. _The earl of Glenallan_, son of the dowager countess.—Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.).