glove

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A close-fitting covering for the hand with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb, worn especially as protection from the cold.
• noun A gauntlet.
• noun An oversized leather glove used for catching baseballs, especially one with more finger sheaths than the catcher's or first baseman's mitt.
• noun A glove made of leather and fabric having padding on the back and extending over the wrist, used in hockey and lacrosse.
• noun A boxing glove.
• noun A close-fitting glove used to improve the grip, as in batting or in golf.
• noun Baseball Fielding ability.
• intransitive verb To furnish with gloves.
• intransitive verb To cover with or as if with a glove.
• intransitive verb To don gloves, as before performing an operation on a patient.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cover with or as with a glove.
• noun A covering for the hand having a separate sheath for each finger, and thus distinguished from a mitten.
• noun Specifically, a boxing-glove.
• noun In hatmaking, a wooden scraper used in felting hats in the battery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cover with, or as with, a glove.
• noun 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.
• noun A boxing glove.
• noun See under Boxing.
• noun a pugilistic contest in which the fighters wear boxing gloves.
• noun (Eng. Law.) A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the sheriff of a county to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed.
• noun (Zoöl.) a fine and soft variety of commercial sponges (Spongia officinalis).
• noun to be intimately associated or on good terms with.
• noun [Colloq.] to treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with.
• noun to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.
• noun to challenge to combat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
• noun boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing
• noun handwear: covers the hand and wrist