glove

Sport any of various large protective hand covers worn in sports, such as a boxing glove

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glove

i. The fixed leading portion of a wing root of a variable swept wing. If there is a provision for carrying external stores at this location, it is known as a glove station.
ii. A covering for the hand made of leather or fire-resistant material.

data glove

A glove used to report the position of a user's hand and fingers to a computer. See virtual reality.

The Data Glove

This CyberGlove from Virtual Technologies is an example of a data glove. The wearer is playing a simulated ballgame. As he views the monitor, his hand movements are translated onto the screen via the data gloves. Each of the gloves in the picture contain 18 movement sensors. (Image courtesy of Virtual Technologies, Inc.)

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Then, when she's all matched, she knits for me, and that's how she made my mittens. But it took a good many days hard knitting, and I had to put Grandmother together a good many times, because every time I came near, she'd scatter herself."

Dorothy told her how the kangaroo had lost her mittens, and Grandmother Gnit promised to set to work at once and make the poor animal another pair.

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"I am not running away," he replied with child-like defiance, at the same time pulling on his mittens. "I'm only going to get some water."

When the sled was lashed and the complaining dogs harnessed, he returned into the cabin for his mittens.

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No set displays for Mitten wines--they want a dedicated Michigan wine section or endcap.

Michigan for Michiganders: unusual new distributor spurs in-state sales

If you're facing brutal cold, get the extreme cold weather mitten set.

Your hands versus the cold

Mitten (a writing educator, education consultant, and Head of Training for Maupin House Publishing) and the songwriting team of Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (multiple Grammy Award winners in the children's music field), this compilation of twenty standards-based mini-lessons reinforced by ten original songs on an accompanying CD, will prove invaluable in creating a classroom curriculum for teaching listening skills, visualization, letter and sound identification, movement, and specific writing-craft skills.

20-in-10

Michiganders really scored big in the state-look-alike game, as they have the distinct pleasure of using their right hand (palm facing toward you) or left hand (palm facing away) to point out their home-town on the mitten created by their hand's silhouette.

NTCA travel team explores the Great Lake State

The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen and Elaine Greenstein is a story about an elderly woman whose children were grown.

A season to ... celebrate: holiday vignettes from our readers

"Not one of us could find a single mitten," said Jennifer.

Three little kittens

dataINtact from Mitten Software, Minneapolis, Minn., improves FTP by adding a low overhead messaging system.

MITTEN SOFTWARE ENHANCES FTP TRANSFERS