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[ obliq'uely.] It. To shine; glance. 2. To En^.j 
look obliquely or askance ; squint. [Now only glibWyt (glib'er-i) k? . [< D. ghbberig, shp- 
Scotch.] 
Cassandra the clere was a Clene Maydon, 
Semely of a Sise, as the silke white, 
Womouly wroght, waike of hir colour, 
Godely of gouernaunce, and gleyit a little. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 3995. 
Glif or look askue, overthwart. 
Baret, Alvearie, G. 274J (1570). 
There's a time to gley, and a time to look even. [There's 
a time to overlook things, and a time to notice them.] 
Scotch proverb. 
gley, glee 2 (gli, gle), . [< gley, glee 2 , .] A 
squint or sidelong glance. [Scotch.] 
gley, glee 2 (gli, gle), ado. [<gley gke*, n. Cf. 
ngleij.1 Awry; asquint. [Scotch.] 
gleyed, gleed 3 (glid, gled), p. a. [< gley, glee*, 
+ -ed 2 .] Squint-eyed; squinting; oblique. 
[Scotch and old Eng.] 
I think such speech becomes a king no more than glide 
eyes cloth his face, when I think he looks on me he sees 
me not. The Prince's Cabbala, p. 2 (1715). 
pery "see Jlibber, gifa.] 1. Slippery; fickle. 
His love Isglibbery; there's no hold on 't. 
Manton, Antonio and Mellida, I., 1. 1. 
Let who will climbe ambition's glibbery rounds, 
And leane upon the vulgar's rotten love, 
I'll not corrival him. 
Marston, Jack Drum's Entertainment, sig. B. 
glimmer 
The ruffian, who, with ghostly glide, 
Dagger in hand, steals close to your bedside. 
Coivper, Charity, 1. 186. 
2. In music and pronunciation, the joining of 
two successive sounds without a break ; a trans- 
ition-sound involuntarily produced between 
two principal sounds; a slur. 3. In dam-iitij, 
a peculiar waltz-step performed in a smooth 
and sliding manner. 
glident An obsolete past participle of glide. 
glider 1 (gli'der), n. [< ME. 'glidere, glydare ; < 
glide + -er 1 .] One who or that which glides. 
Per. The glaunce into my heart did glide ; 
Wil. Hey,l\o,theglyderl 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., August. 
A Middle English variant of glit- 
To gang gleyed, to go awry or wrong. 
Did you ever hear of the umquhile Lady Huntinglen 
//angina a wee bit gleed in her walk through the world? 
Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, xxxii. 
gleyret, An obsolete form of glair. Chaucer. 
gleyvet, An obsolete form of glave. 
gliadin (gli'a-din), n. [< Gr. jA/o, glue, + -ad 
+ -i 2 .] The separable viscid constituent of 
wheat-gluten, a slightly transparent brittle sub- 
stance of a straw-yellow color, soluble in alco- 
hol and acids. Also called glutin and vegetable 
gelatin. 
( S. ( 1q f ' ft'^&CH &; tA&fS^S^ftas^ 
2. Voluble; glib; fluent. 
What, shall thy lubricall and glibberie Muse 
Live aa shce were defunct? 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 3. glj(j.er-t, V. i. 
elibbint (glib'in). . [Ir. glib, a glib, a slut, ter. 
glibin, a shred of cloth, a jag: seefirHfc 2 .] A wo- gliding (gli'ding), p. a. In her., represented 
man wearing a glib or thick bush of hair hang- as moving that is, as undulating, as if in mo- 
ing over her eyes. See extract under glib' 2 , 2. tion, and fessewise : said of a serpent used as a 
glib-gabbet (glib ' gab * et), a. Having a glib bearing. Also glissant. 
mouth or tongue; having the gift of the gab; glidingly (gli'dmg-li), adv. In a smooth, glid- 
ing, or flowing manner. 
gliding-plane (gli' ding-plan), , In crystal., 
that direction in a crystal in which the mole- 
cules glide or slip over one another under pres- 
sure. Also called slipping-plane. 
[Scotch.] 
glib; voluble. 
An' that glib-gabbet Highland Baron, 
The Laird o' Graham. 
Burns, Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. 
glibly (glib'li), adv. [< glib 1 + -fy 2 .] In a 
glib manner; smoothly; volubly: as, to slide gliff (glif), v. 
glibly ; to speak glibly. 
You shall have some will swallow 
A melting heir as glibly as your Dutch 
Will pills of butter. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. 
Now by tough oars impell'd and prosp'rous tides, 
The vessel glibly down the river glides. 
Fawkes, tr. of Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautics, iv. 
Anything, anything to let the wheels 
Of argument run glibly to their goal ! 
Brovming, Ring and Book, II. 133. 
[So. also gluff, glaff; < ME. glif- 
orig. verb glibber, q. v.] I. intrans. 
smoothly ; move freely, as the tongue. 
or obsolete.] 
I undertook that office, and the tongues 
Of all his nattering prophets glibb'd with lies. 
Milton, P. R., i. 375. 
fen, glyffen, be terrified, gaze in terror, in comp. 
agli/en, terrify; also glif ten; origin unknown: 
see glift.'] I. intrant. 1 . To be seized with sud- 
den fear ; be terrified. 2. To gaze with terror ; 
gaze ; look back. 
II. trans. To frighten ; alarm. 
[Now only Scotch.] 
gliff (glif), n. [< gliff, t'.] 1. A sudden fright 
or shock. 
I ha'e gi'en some o' them & gliff in my day, when they 
were coming rather ower near me. Scott, Antiquary, xxi. 
Mony's the glif I got mysel' in the great deep. 
R. L. Stecenson, Merry Men. 
2. A glimpse ; a sudden or chance view. 
II. trans. To make smooth; cause to run 
smoothly, as the tongue ; make glib. [Rare or 
obsolete.] 
My lord, the clapper of my mouth's not glibd 
With court oyle, twill not strike on both sides yet. 
Marston, Antonio and Mellida, II., ii. 2. 
There is a drunken liberty of the tongue, which, being 
once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through 
heaven and earth. Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 20. 
glib 1 (glib), a. [See glibi,v.,znd glibber, a.] 1. 
Smooth ; slippery : as, ice is glib. 
Or colour, like their own, 
The parted lips of shells that are upthrown, 
With which, and coral, and the glib sea flowers, 
They furnish their faint bowers. 
Leigh Hunt, Foliage, p. 20. 
2. Running smoothly or sleekly; plausibly gliddery (glid'&r-i), a 
voluble : as, a glib tongue. pery. [Prov. Eng.] 
I want that glib and oily art, 
To speak and purpose not; since what 1^ will intend, 
An unce of meliou, of gliciride 
Thre unce, and take as moche of narde Celtike. 
Palladia, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 200. 
The mirk came in gli/s. 
Edin 
PRare or speech. 
gliciridet, n. [ME., ult. < L. glycyrrhiza, hco- 
- see aiyoyrrhiza and licorice] Licorice. fa***k Mag., May, 1820, P . 423. 
3. A moment. 
I have placed the fire-wood so as to screen you. Bide 
behind it for a gliff. Scott, Guy Mannering, liii. 
f glide. [Now only Scotch.] 
glidder (glid'er), a. [Cf . AS. glid (once), slip- gliftt (glift), v. 
pery, "glidder (not authenticated), slippery. 
liff.'] 
'6ry, 
gliddrian (once/in a gloss), totter (L. nuiare); gliket, 
[ME. glif ten, var. of gliffen : see 
Same as gliff. 
Another form of gleetf-. 
[< ME. *gttmmen (found only as 
[Prov. Eng.] 
gliddert (glid'er), t'. t. 
[< glidder, .] To ren- 
der smooth and sleek, as by glazing or smear- 
ing. 
Make the decoction, strain it ; then distil it, 
And keep it in your gallipot well gliddered. 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, iv. 1. 
[< glidder + -yi.~\ Slip- 
I'll do 't before I speak. 
Shak., Lear, i. 1. 
He has not the glib faculty of sliding oner a tale, but 
' h " m Uth ' d *" 
Two men led my mother down asleep and gliddery stair- 
way. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, iv. 
glide (glid), v.j. ; pret. and pp. glided, ppr. 
[< ME. gliden (pret. glode, glod, pi. 
j. gliden), glide, slide, flow, fly, fall, 
> BH"ri"Micro-cosmographie, A Downe-right Scholler. move,' <T AS. glidan (pret. glad, pi. glidon. pp. " Also glime. 
gliden), glide, slide, = OS. glidan = OFries. glim (glim), n. [< ME. glim (dat. glymme), < 
glide, 
, 
, < 
G. gUmmen = Sw. glimma = ODan. gttmme, 
shine, glow, glimmer; a secondary form of an 
orig. strong verb (MHG. glimmen, pret. glamm, 
also glimen, pret. gleim), shine, Teut. V 'glim, 
whence also ult. glim, n., glimmer, glimpse, 
gleam' 1 -, etc. (see these words) ; connected with 
glint, glitter, gliss, glint, glisten, glister^, etc., as 
extensions of a Teut. ygli = Gr. x^'v, become 
warm (cf. *><apdf, warm). More remotely akin 
are glare 1 , glass, gloss 1 , glow, and perhaps glad, 
the ult. root being represented by Skt. vJwBj 
shine, glow.] 1. To shine; glimmer. [Bare.] 
2 To glance slyly ; look askance. Halliwell. 
[Pr ov. E L.] 
glib 2 (glib), . [< Ir. and Gael, glib, a lock of 
hair, also a slut.] 1. A bushy head of hair, 
formerly common among the Irish. See the 
extracts. 
They have another custome from the Scythians, that is 
the wearing of Mantells and long glibbes, which is a thick 
curled bush of heare, hanging downe over theyr eyes. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
The Irish princesse, and with her a fifteen others moe, 
With hanging glybbes that hid their necks as tynsel shadow- 
ing snoe. ' Warner, Albion's England, v. 26. 
Their hair they wore long behind and curled on to the 
shoulders, and cut in front to cover the forehead with a 
"WTS. Gregg, Irish Hist, for Eng. Readers, p. 36. 
2. A man wearing such a bush of hair. 
In Tyrconnell the haire of their head grows so long and 
curled that they goe bare-headed, and are called glibs, 
the women glibbins. Gainsford, Glory of Eng., p. 151. 
glib s t (glib), v. t. [Rare, and perhaps a mere 
error for lib ; or due to confusion with gib'*, q. v. ; 
there is nothing to show that g- represents 
the prefix ge- (see i- 1 ), as in D. gelubt, OD. ghe- 
lubt (Kilian), pp. of lubben, lib: see lib.'] To 
castrate. 
I had rather glib myself than they 
Should not produce fair issue. 
Shah., W. T., ii. 1. 
glibber (glib'er), a. [Appar. < D. glibberen,slide, 
freq. of glippen = MLG. glippen, slide, slip (cf . 
'glida = D. glijden = MLG. LG. gliden, glien = AS. gleomu (orig. 'glimu), brightness, =MHG. 
OHG. glitan, MHG. gliten, G. gleiten = Sw. glida g n m> Q. glimm, a spark, == Sw. dial, glim, a 
= Dan. glide, glide,"slide. Perhaps connected 
remotely with glad, in its lit. sense of ' smooth.' 
Hence glidder, glede 1 .'] 1. To move smoothly 
glance; cf. OS. glimo, brightness, = OHG. 
glimo,'M.IlG.gleime, a glow-worm, MHG. glamme, 
a glow, AS. glcem, E. gleam*, etc. (OF. glimpe, 
a a --- _, H, glUW, .ilkj. I/IW//II, OJ. ytvv r, t , ~./~. v ~~ . y"~-j 7 
and without discontinuity or jar; pass or slip a rush-light, < G.), from the orig. strong form 
along without apparent effort; sweep along of glim, v.] If. Brightness; sheen, 
with a smooth, easy, rapid motion, as a stream 
in its channel, a bird through the air, or a ship 
through the water. 
Where-euer the gomen teame] bygan, or glod to an ende. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 661. 
Somtyme it seemeth as it were 
A starre, which that glideth there. 
Gower, Oonf. Amant., vii. 
His goode steA al he bistrood, 
And forth upon his wey he glood. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 193. 
For rolling Years like stealing Waters glide. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know 
our place again. Emerson, Experience. 
Specifically 2. In music, to pass from tone to 
tone without break; slur. = Syn. Slip, etc. See slide. 
glide (gild), n. [< glide, .] 1 . A gliding move- 
ment; the act of moving smoothly and evenly. 
It unlinkM itself, 
And with indented glides did slip away 
Into a bush. Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 
So watz I ranyste wyth glymme pure. 
Mliteratiee Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1087. 
2. A light, as of a lamp or candle. [Colloq.] 
"Let's have A glim," said Sikes, " or we shall go break- 
ing our necks." Dickens, Oliver Twist, xvi. 
It is not a farthing glim in a bedroom, or we should 
have seen it lighted. 
C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, xlvlii. 
3. An eye. [Slang.] 
Harold escaped with the loss of a glim. 
Barium, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 339. 
4. Glimpse; glance. [Rare.] 
If the way might be found to draue your eie, set on high 
materes of state, to take aylim of a thing of so mean con- 
templation. 
A. Hmne, Orthographic (E. E. T. 8.), Ded., p. 2. 
To douse the glim, to put out the light. [Slang.] 
glime (glim), v. i. ; pret. and pp. glimed, ppr. 
f/liming. Same as glim. 
glimmer (glim'er), v. i. [< ME. alimeren, gle- 
meren = LG. glimmern = MHG. G. glimmern = 
