[glawr-ee, glohr-ee] 
noun, plural -ries, adjective, verb, -ried, -ry⋅ing, interjection | 1. | very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle. |
| 2. | something that is a source of honor, fame, or admiration; a distinguished ornament or an object of pride: a sonnet that is one of the glories of English poetry. |
| 3. | adoring praise or worshipful thanksgiving: Give glory to God. |
| 4. | resplendent beauty or magnificence: the glory of autumn. |
| 5. | a state of great splendor, magnificence, or prosperity. |
| 6. | a state of absolute happiness, gratification, contentment, etc.: She was in her glory when her horse won the Derby. |
| 7. | the splendor and bliss of heaven; heaven. |
| 8. | a ring, circle, or surrounding radiance of light represented about the head or the whole figure of a sacred person, as Christ or a saint; a halo, nimbus, or aureole. |
| 9. | anticorona. |
| 10. | to exult with triumph; rejoice proudly (usually fol. by in): Their father gloried in their success. |
| 11. | Obsolete. to boast. |
| 12. | Also, glory be. Glory be to God (used to express surprise, elation, wonder, etc.). |
| 13. | glory days or years, the time of greatest achievement, popularity, success, or the like: the glory days of radio. |
| 14. | go to glory, to die. Also, go to one's glory. |
[an-tee-kuh-roh-nuh] | a luminous edging around the shadow of an observer or the point where his or her shadow would fall, as thrown by the sun upon a cloud or fog bank. |
| glo·ry (glôr'ē, glōr'ē) n. pl. glo·ries
To rejoice triumphantly; exult: a sports team that gloried in its hard-won victory. [Middle English glorie, from Old French, from Latin glōria.] |
Glory
(Heb. kabhod; Gr. doxa). (1.) Abundance, wealth, treasure, and hence honour (Ps. 49:12); glory (Gen. 31:1; Matt. 4:8; Rev. 21:24, 26). (2.) Honour, dignity (1 Kings 3:13; Heb. 2:7 1 Pet. 1:24); of God (Ps. 19:1; 29:1); of the mind or heart (Gen. 49:6; Ps. 7:5; Acts 2:46). (3.) Splendour, brightness, majesty (Gen. 45:13; Isa. 4:5; Acts 22:11; 2 Cor. 3:7); of Jehovah (Isa. 59:19; 60:1; 2 Thess. 1:9). (4.) The glorious moral attributes, the infinite perfections of God (Isa. 40:5; Acts 7:2; Rom. 1:23; 9:23; Eph. 1:12). Jesus is the "brightness of the Father's glory" (Heb. 1:3; John 1:14; 2:11). (5.) The bliss of heaven (Rom. 2:7, 10; 5:2; 8:18; Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 5:1, 10). (6.) The phrase "Give glory to God" (Josh. 7:19; Jer. 13:16) is a Hebrew idiom meaning, "Confess your sins." The words of the Jews to the blind man, "Give God the praise" (John 9:24), are an adjuration to confess. They are equivalent to, "Confess that you are an impostor," "Give God the glory by speaking the truth;" for they denied that a miracle had been wrought.
glory
the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer cast, when the Sun is low, upon the upper surfaces of clouds that are below the mountain upon which he stands. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds. The phenomenon is often observed on mountain peaks but is recorded in literature with special reference to the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany where the Brocken bow sometimes produces spectacular effects. The observer's shadow is often surrounded by coloured bands or rings that are the result of the diffraction of sunlight by water droplets in the cloud. The phenomenon of rainbowlike bands around a shadow on a cloud is also commonly observed from airplanes flying in sunlight above a cloud layer
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