gleamy 
Their harps are of the umber shade 
That hides the blush uf waking day, 
And every yleawy string is made 
Of silvery moonshine's lengthened ray. 
J. K. Drake, Culprit Fay, 
2535 
3. [/. c.] In bot., in gasteromycetous fungi, the 
chambered part of the fructification, upon the 
walls of whose cavities the spores are borne. 
Also glebula. 
gleed 
The next time that ye send or bring onylxxly here, let 
them be gentles allenarly, without ony frond servants, 
like that chield Lockhavd, to In alfdftng and gleeing 
alxiut, and looking to the wrang side o' ane's housekeep- 
ing to the discredit of the family. 
Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, xxvi. 
doubt upon the otherwise plausible supposition 
J.ne CliyiUlSUJ licuiic BIVIL, uvm owmv. JLVU \'***r .-.., 
to be a body fusible in the fire, congealable again by cold 
that LL. glenare stands for "gehmare or "gel- 
mare, from the Teut. noun repr. by AS. 00m, 
Hilni, a handful or bundle of reaped grain, a 
sheaf, E. dial. yclm. The early mod. E. gleam 2. In mineral., a piece of earth in which is 
1 - -- J - 1 ~> TnW- sr.il- 
into brittle glebes, or crystals, soluble In water so as I 
e&T Arbvthnot, Exp. of Chymical Terms. (Latham.) 
nus of leguminous thorny trees, with abrupt- 
ly once or 
twice pin- 
nate leaves, 
mmu.) *** y^f". ww*-^ ^~~. . y .~ ftif LLL 'wt., a jji*j\j~ ~ ~ --- - inconspicu- 
or gleme (see gleam 2 ) is a variant of j/fean, per- contained some mineral ore. 3. Turf ; soil ; greenish 
haps in conformity to yelm, q. v.] I. trans. 1. ground; farming-land. [Archaic.] 
To gather after a reaper, or on a reaped field; Tnc i ms b an dmen hereabout doe stir their gleabe at such 
bring together from a scattered condition, as time as much smoke doth arise. Sandys, Travailes, p. 210. 
grain left after the removal of the main crop. 
Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn. 
Ruth ii. 2. 
After his harvesting the men must ijlean 
What he had left. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 343. 
H ence _ 3. To collect in scattered or fragmen- 
tary parcels or portions; pick up here and 
there ; gather slowly and assiduously. 
In flood, or lene 
Clay lande, or nygh the see, gravel thou glene. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 14. 
They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand 
ous greenish 
and polyga- 
mous flow- 
ers, and flat 
pods. There 
are 5 or 6 spe- 
cies, of North 
America, tem- 
perate Asia, 
and the moun- 
tains of Africa. 
The honey-lo- 
cust, or three- 
4. Now, specifically, the cultivable land be- thorned acacia. 
Up they rose as vigorous as the sun, 
Or to the culture of the willing glebe, 
Or to the cheerful tendance of the flock. 
Thornton, Spring, 1. 247. 
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe hath broke. 
dray. Elegy. 
And, breaking the glebe round about them, 
Filled the barn with hay, and the house with food for a 
twelvemonth. Longfellow, Evangeline, i. 2. 
ionging'to r a"parisn'church or ecclesiastical G. triacantha, 
benefice. Also glebe-land. 
Many parishes have not an inch of glebe. 
Swift. 
of the United 
States, is a 
large tree, 
widely culti- 
Branch and Pod of H 
triaca 
ley-locust (Glfditschij 
ttha). 
Faith, go study, 
Judges xx. 45. glebe-hOUSe (gleb'hous), . A parsonage. [Ire- V ated for shade and as a hedge-plant. It has very long, 
land.] 
agre 
many-seeded pods, which are filled with a sweet pulp be- 
tween the seeds. The wood is hard, heavy, strong, and 
durable. The water-locust, G. monospenna, the other 
North American species, is found in swamps of the east- 
ern United States. It is a smaller tree, with more slen- 
der thorns, and a short one-seeded pod without pulp. 
from the inscriptions and '0^ v m It ^ ^ Thames> an(J the gleMand Hou8e ^ 
H. intrans. To gather stalks or ears of grain very large and fair, and not dUapidated. ^^ ^ y ^ * See gleedy. 
left by reapers ; also, to collect or gather any- (gleb'les), a. [< glebe + -less.} Hav- glu, etc., < AS. gled, contr." of "gleo-w, umlaut 
thing in a similar way. inc no elebe "" "'"'"" /; ~ ~ vl: " ! * mY 
I come after, glenyug here and there, 
And am ful glad yf I may fynde an ere. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Good Worn 
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after 
form of gliw (in oblique cases and in comp. 
gleooset (gle'bos), a. Same as glebous. Bailey, also glig-), joy, mirth, always implying and 
_l _i r .;i.,,i /! 'KrtQ / i_fi^ * IV nlvhmie fl , nl.f.~ .o/.fi/ioll-ir omiiv tr. ' mnftip. ' fsinc'infl' or lllav- 
n. [< glebous (L. gle- practically equiv. to 'music' (singing or play 
, . . 
-ity. The quality of being glebous. 
glean 1 (glen), n. [< ME. glen, glene; cf. OF. 
ing), = Icel. gly, glee, gladness (cf. glyja, be 
gleeful), = Sw. dial, gly, mockery, ridicule, 
f. (?) Gr. x^i'it a J es t> a Jke, Russ. glumu, a 
aclod: seetftefte.] Consisting of or relating to jest, a joke.] 1. Exultant or playful exhilara- 
glebe or soil ; turfy ; cloddy. Also glebose, gleby. 
glebula (gleb'u-la), n. ; pi. glebuhe (-le). [NL., 
< L. glebula, glwbula, dim. of gleba, glaiba, a 
olpd see glebe.} I. Same as gleba, 3. 2. 
the reapers. "Ruth TiVS glebOUSt (g^'bus), a/ [= "Sp. It. gteboso, < L. 
As they which gleane, the reliques use to gather, glebosm, glaibosus, full of clods, < gleba, glwoa, 
Which th' husbandman behind him chanst to scater. a clod : see </te&e.] Consisting of or relating to __.,_ _. . . 
Spenser, Ruins of Rome, xxx. ,,1^ or so il ; turfv ; cloddy. Also glebose, gleby. tion ; demonstrative joy or delight ; merriment ; 
5. . ,,'..,..!> _.,'_,_,...,_, , TXTT mirth; gaiety. 
The kyng and ek his meigne 
Therof hadden grete glee. 
King Alisaunder, 1. 5308 (Weber's Metr. Rom., I.). 
His merie men comanded he 
To make him bothe game and glee, 
For nedes moste he fyghte. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 129. 
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, 
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 201. 
His hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine 
with glee. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, I. 45. 
2f. Music ; minstrelsy. See gleeman. 
That maiden Ysonde hight, 
That gle was lef to here, 
And romance to rede aright. 
Sir Tristrem, ii. 7. 
glene, glenne, glane, ML. glena, glenna, a hand- 
ful of reaped grain, a bunch: see glean*, .] 1. ___ ^ _ r 
A handful of corn tied together by a gleaner, pi. Roundish elevations resembling scattered 
Nares. crumbs on the thalli of some lichens. 3. pi. 
A gleane or heape of corne commonly gathered and The spores of certain fungi. Treasury of Botany. 
bound by handfuls together glebulOSe (gleb'u-los), a. [< glebula + -ose.~] 
Withali, Diet. (ed. 1808), p 8,. 6 Hayi rtjo] or small roundish elevations, 
2. Anything gathered or gleaned. [Bare.] as ^ thalli of some lichens. Treasury of Bot- 
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden. any. 
3. A somewhat indefinite unit; a bunch: as, glebyt (gle'bi), a 
a glean of teazels. [Essex and Gloucester- 
shire, Eng.] A glean of herrings, by a statute 
of Edward L, is 25. 
glean 2 t (glen), n. [Perhaps a corruption of 
clean. Cf. gleam?.] The afterbirth, as of a cow 
or other domestic animal ; the cleaning. Hol- 
land. 
gleaner (gle'ner), n. 
gleanl- + -cr 1 .] 1. One who gathers after ~ te *< G^y'/.faav (Ionic), also fA& X uv (Doric), 
[< ME. glener, glenai ; < Qiecfcoma (gle-ko'ma), 
One who gathers after ^"r t n. vrt* cinni 
[< glebe + -y 1 .} Same as gle- 
bous. 
The glebie flelde, and clottrie glebe with mattocke thou 
must tame. 
Drant, tr. of Horace's Ep. to his Balie in the Countrie. 
Pernicious Flatt'ry ! thy malignant Seeds, 
In an ill Hour, and by a fatal Hand, 
Sadly diffus'd o'er Virtue's gleby Land. 
Prior, Solomon, i. 
[NL., with varied 
And gladnes in glees, & gret ioye y-maked. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 93. 
Glu or mynstralcye, musica, armonia. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 200. 
vaVTo'f Atti/W^rpenn^oyal.] A genus of 3f. A musical instrument, 
labiate plants, of a single species, now referred 
reapers. 
The gleaners spread around, and here and there, 
Spike aer spike, their -nty^rvest pick^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ 
2. One who gathers slowly and assiduously. ^^^.*SffiStorf&. 
A t" t ma y n coffee - h U8e ^^ '" the C ' ty ' 8 Tocll' Dost think see not that all that ruffling and pin 
rant statesman. <*. Qf wfng and , eathers is not for thy master , but to try what 
3. A short-handled oyster-rake used by men thou canst make of him, thou greedy gled? 
wading in the water to gather oysters from the Scott, Monastery, xxm. 
%*J$%^v$j^ t^*^:**^<*^U!!!* 
n. of git 
reapers 
ing 
Smale harpers with her glees 
Sate under hem in dyvers sees. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1209. 
4. In music, a composition for three or more 
solo voices, without accompaniment, usually in 
' two or three contrasted movements, and adapt- 
ed to any kind of metrical text, not necessari- 
ly joyful. The structure of a glee is seldom truly con- 
trapuntal, but considerable independence of the parts is 
essential ; the former characteristic distinguishes it from 
the madrigal, the latter from the part-song. The glee is 
issentially of English origin and cultivation, and iU best 
, 
period was from 1760 to 1830. =8yn. 1. Joy,Jomality, etc. 
(see hilarity); exhilaration, jollity, jocularity, sportive- 
soi, .] 1. The act of gathering after g{ ea d, So. gled, glaid; < ME. glede, < AS. glida 
. 2. That which is collected by glean- (_ i ce i. giedlta = Sw. glada), a kite, lit. ' glider,' 
< glidan (pp. gliden), glide : see glide.] The com- 
mon kite of Europe, Mllvus ictinus or M. regalis : ^ a.^ adv. See gley. 
a term sometimes expended to related hawks, | lee ^ lub (gig'klub), n. A company of singers 
as the common buzzard and the marsh-hawk. B organ i ze( f s to g i n g glees, part-songs, and the 
See kite. like, often of male voices only. 
Holje were his yjen & vnder campe hores, eleed 1 (eled), n. [< ME. qleede, glede, < AS. 
Sb,'?^^^^S^' W " 1 W=ONoV A a /owW ' oal,' flame, 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 16%. fire (= OS. *glod (in comp. glod-tvelo, gold, lit. 
The Cocke, who is not to be feared by a Serpent, but a ' fire-wealth' ; welo = E. weal) = QFries.jTJerf, 
The poor Jews had to gather the gleanings of the rich 
man's harvest. Bp. Atterbury. 
The second Mahomet . . . by the taking of Euboia dealt 
the heaviest blow to the Venetian power in the jgean, 
. . . [and] brought under his power, as a gleaning after 
the vintage, the Frank lordship of Attica and the Greek 
lordship of Peloponnesos. K. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 320 
CHeba (gle'ba), . [NL., < L. gleba, glaiba, a 
clod: see glebe.] 1. A genus of pteropods. 
Forsk&l, 1776. 2. A genus of true siphonopho- 
glead. 
es. gled, 
- OHG. 
i polyp 
male and female gonophores areclusterec 
nutritive polyp. UippopoMtu is a synoi 
160 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 473. n Jod = D. gloed = MLG. glot, LG. gloot = 
. 
MHG. gluot, G. glut, gluth =. leel. glodh (pi. 
yleedhr) = Sw. Dan. glod, a glowing coal), < AS. 
alowan E. alow : see alow. For the formative 
I/ ivl L ^ yiv,H*. *. 
. 
(/(</*'/ L 1 -"-"' ** J-"*"* "^ vy, 1* 'j -- ---- . 
ask a nce ; squint ; look cunningly and slyly at -d, cf . seed, ult. < sow 1 , tnead^ ult. < wow 1 , flood. 
an object out of the corners of one's eyes. ult. < flow, blood, ult. < blow^, etc.] 1. A live 
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