† ˈglose-worm Obs. rare.
Also glouse-.
[? app. an alteration of glow-worm. Cf. gloze v.3, gloss n.2; also glass-worm, glaze-worm.]
= glow-worm.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 108 A flye or a worme called a glouberde, or a glouse worme. 1589 R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 21 Changeable coloured vrchins, which can glisten like a glose worme neare gold. |