to put a glove or gloves on something or someone, or (in sports) to catch or handle something using a glove
The catcher managed to glove the fast-moving ball.
Before touching the ancient scroll, the curator carefully gloved her hands.
✦ Verbal use from the noun, recorded since the 1600s.
a tall plant with long narrow leaves and spikes of large, bell-shaped purple, pink, white, or yellow flowers.
A cluster of tall foxgloves grew along the edge of the forest path.
The gardener planted several foxgloves in the shady border.
✦ Late Middle English: from fox + glove, perhaps suggested by the shape and velvety texture of the flower, likened to a glove for a fox.
