glove

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A fitted covering for the hand with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb.
2. n. A gauntlet.
3. n. Sports Any of various coverings for the hand designed to provide protection or improve the grip, as:
4. n. Sports An oversized leather glove used for catching baseballs, especially one with more finger sheaths than the catcher's or first baseman's mitt.
5. n. Sports A glove made of leather and fabric having padding on the back and extending over the wrist, used in hockey and lacrosse.
6. n. Sports A boxing glove.
7. n. Sports A close-fitting leather glove used to improve the grip, as in batting or in golf.
8. n. Baseball Fielding ability: a shortstop with a good glove.
9. v. To furnish with gloves.
10. v. To cover with or as if with a glove.
11. v. To don gloves, as before performing an operation on a patient.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A covering for the hand having a separate sheath for each finger, and thus distinguished from a mitten. Gloves are made of a great variety of textile materials, of flexible leather, fur, etc. The form or make of gloves has sometimes constituted an indication of the rank of the wearer. Particular significance was formerly attached to certain uses of gloves, as to the wearing in the helmet or cap of a glove given by a lady as a favor or cognizance, or of one wrested from an enemy as a challenge; also to the throwing down of a glove as a defiance. See gauntlet.
2. n. Specifically, a boxing-glove.
3. n. In hatmaking, a wooden scraper used in felting hats in the battery. It is tied to the hand.
4. To cover with or as with a glove.

Wiktionary

1. n. An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.
2. n. baseball, figuratively The ability to catch a hit ball.
3. n. idiomatic A condom.
4. v. baseball, transitive To catch the ball in a baseball mitt
5. v. transitive To put on a glove.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
2. n. A boxing glove.
3. v. To cover with, or as with, a glove.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
2. n. boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing
3. n. handwear: covers the hand and wrist