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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Glutinator

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

GLUTINA'TOR. Literally, one who sticks things together with glue (gluten or glutinum); whence the word is used specially to designate a person who practises the art of ornamenting books, and preparing the sheets for the copyists to write upon, by glueing together strips of papyrus to make a page, and also the different pages to make a roll or volume. Cic. Att. iv. 4. Lucil. Sat. xxvi. 42. Gerlach.

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