GLACIER
\ɡlˈe͡ɪʃə], \ɡlˈeɪʃə], \ɡ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə]\
Definitions of GLACIER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
By Oddity Software
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An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
By Noah Webster.
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A vast collection of ice and snow which is formed among loftv mountains and moves slowly down the slopes and through the valleys until it melts or breaks off into icebergs.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A field or, more properly, a slowly moving river of ice, such as is found in the hollows and on the slopes of lofty mountains.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A mass of ice formed in an Alpine valley, and flowing slowly down its bed like a viscons substance, being fed with semi-melted snow at the top and forming streams at the bottom. Glacier theory, the theory of an early ice period of the globe, when vast masses of rock, &c., were transported on islands of ice to their present localities.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
