gleed 
or burning coal; a fire; a flame. [Archaic or 
dialectal.] 
The cruel ire, as reed as eny glede. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1140. 
Then he will spring forth of his hand, 
As sparke doth out of gleede. 
Ballad of King Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. 243). 
The sun that shines on the world sae bricht, 
A borrowed gleid frae the fountain o' licht. 
Hogg, Kilmeny. 
Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch. 
Longfellow, Evangeline, i. 5. 
2f. Coal or cinders. 
The fir and flaumbe funeral, 
In which my body brennen shal to glede. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 305. 
gleed 1 !, v. i. [< gleed 1 , .] To burn. Nares. 
The nearer I approch, the more my flame doth gleede. 
Turberville, tr. of Ovid's Epistles, slg. Q 4. 
gleed 2 (gled), . Same as glede 1 . 
gleed 3 , p. a. See gleyed. 
gleedyt, a. [ME. gledy; < gleed 1 + -y 1 .'] Burn- 
ing; glowing. 
My besy gost . . . 
Constreynede me with so gledy desire, 
That in myn herte I feele yet the fire. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 105. 
gleeful (gle'ful), a. [< glee 1 + -ful.] Actively 
merry; gay; joyous. 
My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad. 
When everything doth make & gleeful boast? 
Shak., Tit. And., 11. 8. 
gleefully (gle'ful-i), adv. In a gleeful manner; 
merrily; gaily. 
gleek 1 ! (glek), n. [Also dial. Sc. glaik (q. v.) ; 
formerly also glick, glike; possibly from a form 
(Scand. ?) corresponding to AS. gvldc, play, 
movement, geldcan (pret. gelec), delude, trick, < 
fire-, a generalizing prefix (see i- 1 ), + lac, Icel. 
leik, play, sport. See laik, lark 2 .'] 1. A jest; a 
scoff; a trick or deception. 
Vnto whom Lucilla aunswered with this glyeke. 
Lyly, Euphues, Auat. of Wit, p. 95. 
2. An enticing or wanton glance. 
Waving fans, coy glances, glicks, cringes, and all such 
simpering humours. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, Palinode. 
But stay ; I do espy 
A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ii. 2. 
3. In music, same as glee 1 , 4 Dutch gleek. See 
Dutch. To give the gleek, to pass a jest upon; make 
appear ridiculous. 
By manly mart to purchase prayse, 
And give his foes the glceke. 
Turberville, cited by Steevens. 
Mus. What will you give us? 
Pet. No money, on my faith ; but the gleek. 
Shak.,R. and J., iv. 5. 
gleek 1 ! (glek), v. [< gleek 1 , .] I. trans. To 
ridicule ; deride ; scoff at. 
The more that I get her, the more she doth gleek me. 
Tom Tyler and his Wife (1598). 
II. intrans. 1. To make sport; gibe; sneer. 
I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman 
twice or thrice. Shak., Hen. V., v. 1. 
2. To pass time sportively or frivolously; frolic. 
No hospitality kept? Bacchanalia's good store in every 
Bishops family, and good gleeking. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
gleek 2 (glek), n. [Generally regarded as a par- 
ticular use of gleek 1 , with which it is usually 
merged ; but < OF. glic, glicq, ghelicque, chance, 
hazard, also a game of cards like gleek, lit. 
'like' or 'even,'< MD. ghelijck or MHG. gelich, 
glich, G. gleich, like, even: see alike, Me 2 .] 1. 
An old game at cards played by three per- 
sons, with forty-four cards, each person having 
twelve, and eight being left for the stock. 
Nor play with costermongers at mumchance, traytrip, 
But keep the gallant st company and the best games, 
Gleek and primero. B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 4. 
Why, when you please, sir ; I am, 
For threepenny gleek, your man. 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, v. 2. 
My aunt Wright and my wife and I to cards, she teach- 
ing us to play at gleeke, which is a pretty game. 
Peptjs, Diary, Jan. 13, 1662. 
2. Three cards of a sort in this game, as three 
aces, three kings, etc. Hence 3f. Three of 
anything. 
This day we'll celebrate 
A gleek of marriages ; Pandolpho and Flavia, 
Sulpitia and myself, and Trincalo 
With Armellino. T. Tomkisff), Albumazar, iv. 4. 
gleek 2 (glek), v. t. [< gleeW, ,] In the game 
of gleek, to gain a decided advantage over. 
Come, gentlemen, what's your game? Why, gleek; that's 
your only game. Gleek let it be, for I am persuaded I 
shall gleek some of you. J. Cook, Green's Tu Quoque. 
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glee-maiden! (gle'ma"dn), .. [Not found in 
ME.; AS. (ONorth.) gliew-meden: see glee 1 , 2, 
and maiden.'] A female minstrel. 
The glee-maiden bent her head low, . . . and then be- 
gan the song of Poor Louise. 
Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, xi. 
gleeman (gle'man), n. ; pi. gltemen (-men). [< 
ME. gleeman, gleman, gleoman, gletuman, glu- 
man, -mon, < AS. gleoman, gligman, gliman, a 
musician, minstrel, player, jester, < gled, gleow, 
etc., glee (music), + man, man.] A singer; 
specifically, in old use, a strolling minstrel or 
musician. 
Gladder than gleo-man that gold hath to gyfte. 
Piers Plowman (C), xii. 104. 
The gleemen added mimicry, and other means of pro- 
moting mirth, to their profession, as well as dancing and 
tumbling, with sleights of hand, and variety of deceptions 
to amuse the spectators. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 251. 
The visits of the gleeman and the juggler, or " tum- 
bler," were welcome breaks in the monotony of the 
thegn's life. It is hard not to look kindly at the gleeman, 
for he no doubt did much to preserve the older poetry 
which even now was ebbing away. 
J. K, Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 324. 
No rude shows of a theatrical kind ; no minstrel, with 
his harp and legendary ballad, nor gleeman, with an ape 
dancing to his music. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, p. 270. 
You see, at the court of the Great Kaan there was a great 
number of gleemen and jugglers. 
rule, tr. of Marco Polo, II. 54. 
gleent, v. i. [Not found except in quot. from 
Prior, and perhaps an error for gleam 1 . Of. 
gleam 2 for glean 1 .] To shine; glisten. 
Those who labour 
The sweaty forge, who edge the crooked scythe, 
Bend stubborn steel, and harden gleening armour, 
Acknowledge Vulcan's aid. 
Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus. 
gleesome (gle'sum), n. [< glee 1 + -some.'] Glee- 
ful; joyous. 
Gleesome hunters, pleased with their sport, 
With sacrifices due have thank'd me for 't. 
'. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 4. 
gleet (glet), . [Also dial. (Sc.) glit (q. v.); < 
ME. glet, glette, once glat (for "glete), slime, < 
OF. glete, glette, glecte, a flux, secretion, humor, 
mucus, matter.] l!. Slime; mucus. 
Holy mennys affeccions . . . casten out fro her hertb 
al vile glat [var. glet} that stoppith her breeth. 
Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), III. 31. 
He [Jonah] glidez in by the giles [gills] thurj glaymande 
glette. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 269. 
2. A thin ichor running from a sore ; in par- 
ticular, a transparent mucous discharge from 
the urethra: an effect of gonorrhea, 
gleet! (glet), v. i. [< gleet, .] 1. To flow in a 
thin limpid humor ; ooze, as pus. 
His thumb being inflamed and swelled, I made an in- 
cision into it to the bone ; this not only bled, but gleeted 
a few drops. Wiieman, Surgery. 
2. To flow slowly, as water. 
Vapours . . . are condensed, and so gleet down the cav- 
erns of these mountains, whose inner parts, being hollow, 
afford them a basin. 
G. Cheyne, Philos. Prin. of Nat. Religion. 
gleety (gle'ti), a. [< gleet + -y 1 .'} Consisting 
of or resembling gleet; ichorous; thin; limpid. 
If the flesh lose its ruddiness, and the matter change 
to be thin and gleety, you may suspect it corrupting. 
Wiseman, Surgery. 
glee-woman! (gle'wum"an), n. A female min- 
strel. 
Here is a strolling glee-woman with her viol, preparing 
to sing beneath the royal windows. 
Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, x. 
gleg 1 (gleg), a. [Also, as a noun, cleg; < Icel. 
gloggr, also spelled gleggr and gleyggr, clear- 
sighted, acute, clever; of things, clear, distinct; 
= AS. gledw, ME. gleaw, gleu, wise, sagacious, 
= OS. glau = LG. glau = OHG. glau, glou, gilau, 
gilou, MHG. glau (glaw-), wise, sagacious, G. 
glau, clear, bright, clear-sighted, = Goth, "glagg- 
wus, in adv. glaggwd and glaggwuba, glaggtcaba, 
carefully, accurately.] 1. Quick of perception 
or apprehension; acute; clever; sharp. 2. 
Nimble ; active ; lively. 
Forbye, he'll shape you aff, fu' gleg, 
The cut of Adam's philabeg. 
Burns, Captain Grose's Peregrinations. 
How are ye, miller? Ye look as gleg 
As if ye had got a prize in the lottery. 
Petticoat Tales, I. 226. 
I'm gay gleg at meal-time. Scott, Old Mortality, viii. 
3. Easily moved; slippery. 4. Keen-edged; 
sharp : applied to things, as to a knife. 
For, yet unskaithed by Death's gleg gully, 
Tain Samson's leevin' ! 
Bums, Tarn Samson's Elegy. 
[Scotch in all uses.] 
gley 
Gleg at the uptake, quick of perception or understand, 
ing. 
A gude tale's no the waur o' being twice tauld, . . . and 
a body has aye the better chance to understand it. Every- 
body's no sae gleg at the uptake as ye are yoursell. 
Scott, Old Mortality, vii. 
gleg 2 , . Same as cleg 2 . 
gleg-hawk (gleg'hak), n. The European spar- 
row-hawk, Accipiter nisus. [Scotch.] 
Gleichenaceae (gli-ke-na'se-e), n. pi. Same as 
Gleictiemece. 
Gleichenia (gli-ke'ni-a), . [NL., named after 
Friedrich W. Gleichenj'a, German botanist (1717- 
83).] A genus of ferns having naked son, com- 
posed of 2 to 10 sporangia, on the backs of veins. 
The sporangia have a broad, complete horizontal ring, and 
open vertically. The fronds are usually clichotomous, and 
often proliferous from the axils of the forks, and the pinna; 
are deeply pinnatifld. The 23 specie's belong mostly to the 
southern hemisphere, and several beautiful ones are com- 
mon in cultivation. 
Gleichenieae (gli-ke-ni'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Glei- 
chenia + -etc.] A group'of ferns, typified by the 
genus Gleichenia. Also Gleichenacea. 
gleid (gled), n. A Scotch spelling of gleed 1 . 
gleiret, n. An obsolete form of glair. Chaucer. 
glen (glen), . [Early mod. E. also glenne, 
glin ; not in ME. or AS. ; < Gael, and Ir. gleann 
= W. and Corn, glyn (see glyn), a valley, glen ; 
perhaps connected with W. glan, brink, side, 
shore, bank.] A narrow valley ; a dale; a de- 
pression or hollow between hills. 
But now from me hys madding mynd is starte, 
And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., April. 
The wilderness is theirs, with all its caves, 
Its hollow glens, its thickets, and its plains. 
Cowper, Task, vi. 402. 
= Syn. Ravine, Gorge, etc. See valley. 
glencht, v. [ME. glenchen, usually in pret. 
glente, glent, mod. inf. glent: see glent.'] Same 
as glint. 
Whan he saugh hym come he glenched for the stroke 
and girde in to the thikkest presse, and Gawein hym 
chaced that lightly wolde not hym leve. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 408. 
glene (gle'ne), n. [NL., < Gr. yMnni, the pupil, 
the eyeball, the socket of a joint.] In anat. : 
(n) The pupil; the eyeball; the eye. Dungli- 
son. (ft) A socket; any slight depression or 
cavity receiving a bone in articulation. Parr. 
glengarry (glen-gar'i), n. [Named from Glen- 
garry, a valley of Inverness-shire, Scotland.] 
A Scotch cap of wool, either woven in one 
piece or made of cloth. It has erect sides, a hollow 
or crease on the top, and diminishes in height toward the 
back, where the band is slit or parted and fitted with a 
pair of short ribbons, which are usually crossed and per- 
mitted to hang down. 
On his head was the Highland bonnet called a glengarry. 
Geo. MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, p. 23. 
Q-lenlivet, Glenlivat (glen-le'vet, -vat), n. [So 
named from Glenlivet, a valley of Banffshire, 
Scotland, where it was first made.] A superior 
Scotch whisky. 
Fhairshon had a son who married Noah's daughter, 
And nearly spoiled ta flood by trinking up ta water 
Which he would have done, I at least believe it, 
Had ta mixture peen only half Glenlimt. 
Aytoun, Massacre of the Macpherson. 
glenohumeral (gle-no-hu'me-ral), a. [< gle- 
no(id) + humeral."] Connecting the humerus 
with the glenoid cavity of the scapula : as, the 
glenohumeral ligament. 
glenoid (gle'noid), a. and . [< Gr. yhrrvoeidr/f, 
like a ball-and-socket joint, < y'f.rfvri, a socket 
(see glene), + fWof, form.] I. a. 1. Shallow or 
slightly cupped: specifically applied in anat- 
omy to two articular cavities or fossae, of the 
scapula and of the temporal bone respectively. 
2. Having a glenoid fossa: as, the glenoid 
border of the scapula Glenoid fissure, the Gla- 
serian fissure. See fissure. Glenoid fossa. See/ool. 
II. n. A glenoid fossa, as of the temporal 
bone or of the scapula ; a glene. 
glenoidal (gle-noi'dal), a. [< glenoid + -al.~] 
Same as glenoid. 
The articular glenoidal cavity for the humerus. 
Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 35. 
glenpvertebral (gle-no-ver'te-bral), a. [< gle- 
no(id) + vertebral."} Formed, as a certain angle 
of the scapula, by its glenoid and vertebral 
borders. 
glent (glent), v. and n. A variant of glint. 
glevet, n. An obsolete form of glare. 
glewM, n. and v. An obsolete spelling of glue. 
glew 2 t, v. i. A variant of gley. 
gley, glee 2 (gli, gle), r. i. [Sc. also glye and 
gledge (early mod. E. also glew) ; < ME. fflei/en, 
glyen, gligen, glygen, shine, glance, look askant, 
squint, < Icel. gljd, glitter, prob. akin to glteja, 
