Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
F. glacier, fr. glace, ice, L. glacies,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Fr.,—glace, ice—L. glacies, ice.
In literature:
It was the melting of this glacier which fed the little stream.
"The Later Cave-Men" by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Some large blocks of the glacier ice had fallen from above, and lay conveniently for examination.
"More Science From an Easy Chair" by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
To go and find new ways on virgin mountains and glaciers was not easy work.
"An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet" by A. Henry Savage Landor
At the heads of these glaciers there is little else but snow and ice.
"The Heart of Nature" by Francis Younghusband
Between the periods from volcano to glacier and from glacier to to-day, stream erosion has performed its miracles.
"The Book of the National Parks" by Robert Sterling Yard
In that way you can see the headwaters of the Fraser River, and glaciers twenty miles south of here.
"The Young Alaskans in the Rockies" by Emerson Hough
On arriving at the mouth of this last, they perceived that it was filled by a glacier.
"The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
Let's head straight for the glaciers.
"The Great Sioux Trail" by Joseph Altsheler
The Heif Goats lived close to the Heifen Glacier, one of the largest in Switzerland.
"Soap-Bubble Stories" by Fanny Barry
No one who has not seen a glacier can possibly realise what they are like.
"The Beauties of Nature" by Sir John Lubbock
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In poetry:
When spear-heads light the lakes,
When trumpets loose the snows,
When the rushing war-steed shakes
The glacier's mute repose;
"The Cavern Of The Three Tells" by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Yes, though the virgin mountain-air
Fresh through these pages blows;
Though to these leaves the glaciers spare
The soul of their mute snows;
"Stanzas In Memory Of The Author Of 'Obermann'" by Matthew Arnold
Ho, wind of March, speed over sea,
From mountains where the snows lie deep
The cruel glaciers threatening creep,
And witness this, my jubilee!
"March" by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard
Since all eternity, a turban
Snow white, thy glorious brow has veiled,
The peace sublime about thy glacier
The strife of man has ne'er assailed.
"To Kasbek" by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
Torrents! that down the mountain rush,
Glaciers! that on its shoulders shine,
Pearls! in your ocean bed that blush,
Diamonds! yet sleeping in your mine,—
"Hymns For Dedication XI" by John Pierpont
But, see! There’s a man on the glacier;
His nose is turned into an icicle.
Don’t you know him? It’s Walls the ice-cream man,
Riding round with ice-cream on his tricycle.
"Christmas Day In The Workhouse" by Weston and Lee
In news:
"Glacier Soundscapes" is a multimedia presentation of music and video about Glacier National Park in Montana.
Novel Technique Reveals How Glaciers Sculpted Their Valleys.
The study of Columbia Glacier shows the first detailed observation of a glacier undergoing a transition from grounded to floating.
Hikers walk on the Matanuska Glacier near Palmer, Alaska on August, 10 2008.
The northeast face of Mt Shasta , Calif, showing the Hotlum glacier, dominates the horizon Thursday, June 19, 2008.
Multiple Vessels Rescue Sightseeing Boat in Glacier Bay.
Three separate vessels responded to a cruise ship that was taking on water in Glacier Bay on Sunday, according to the.
The Panthers notched impressive and rare victories against the cross-canal rival Glacier Bears during non-conferenc.
Skagway , and Glacier Bay - 8th wonder of the world.
Matt Lubejko, a fisheries technician for the US Forest Service, clears debris from a seasonal fish weir at the mouth of Steep Creek at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center on Friday.
Naturalist at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center reported see a large school of returning sockeye race up the creek starting Wednesday afternoon.
Glacier Peak dominates Snohomish in first-ever meeting between the two Snohomish high schools.
Upstart Glacier Peak beats big brother Snohomish soundly .
Body Found in Glacier County.
A volcano explodes a glacier in Iceland.
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In science:
Glacier: Highly Durable, Decentralized Storage Despite Massive Correlated Failures.
CORE: Augmenting Regenerating-Coding-Based Recovery for Single and Concurrent Failures in Distributed Storage Systems
Only three percent of the water on Earth is freshwater in nature, and about two-thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.
Extraction of Freshwater and Energy from Atmosphere
The same situation is in rain, mountain rivers and glaciers. 9.
Extraction of Freshwater and Energy from Atmosphere
Mendillo et al. 2006), (d) glaciers (Furget et al. 2006, which is actually a calculation pertaining to past epochs when the obliquity of the Martian ecliptic was 45◦ or more), and (e) two sorts of X-ray emission, fluorescence and charge exchange, both to be blamed on the sun (Dennerl et al. 2006).
Astrophysics in 2006
One possible design for a detector with mass order of 100 kton, called GLACIER concept , was assumed at this workshop.
Summary of the 3rd International Workshop on a Far Detector in Korea for the J-PARC Beam
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