G L E 
Sleeping vegetables lie, 
’Till the glad fiiminons of a genial ray 
Unbinds the gUbe, and calls them out to day. Garth, 
The land pofleded as a part of tlie revenue of an eccle- 
fiaftical benefice.—The ordinary living or revenue of a 
parfonage is of three forts : the one in land, commonly 
called the glebe-, another in tythe ; the third, in offer¬ 
ings bellowed by the people. Spdman. —A trefpafs done 
o'n a parfon’s glebe land, which is a freehold, cannot be 
tried in a fpiritual court. Ayliffe. 
By the law of England, if any parfon, vicar, &c, 
hath caufed any of his glebe-land to be manured and 
fown at his own cofts, with any corn or grain, the in¬ 
cumbents may. devife all the profits and corn growing 
upon tlie faid glebe by will, under flat. 28 Hen. VIII. 
c. II. Ani if a parfon ftfws his glebe and dies, the 
executors fhall have the corn fown by the teflator. But 
it the glebe be in the hands of a tenant, and the parfon 
dies afterTeverance of the corn, and before his rent 
clue ; it is faid, neither the parfon’s executors, nor the 
lucceffor, can claim the rent, but the tenant may retain 
it, and alfo the crop, unlefs there be a fpccial cov'enant 
lor the payment to the parfon’s executors proportion- 
ably, &c. Woocfslnji. 163. But, query. If this cafe 
would not come within the equity of fiat, ii Geo. II. 
c. 19. w'hich gives right of adtion to the reprefentative 
of tenant tor Tile, for any portion of rent in arrear at the 
time of his death > 
Exchange of glebe land will not bind the fucceflbr. 
A^ey, 5. Prohibition was moved for to a parfon for dig¬ 
ging new coal-mines in his glebe, and alfo for felling 
trees ; tor it is wafie, and prohibited by the ftatute de 
non projiernend’ arbores, See. The court held it lay not 
for tlie mines ; for then no mines in glebe could ever 
be opened. Zen. 107. By the faid fiat. 28 Hen. VIII. 
c.ii, every fucceflbr, on a month’s warning, after in- 
dudlion, fiiall have the manfion-houfe and the glebe be¬ 
longing thereto, not fown at the time of the prede- 
ceflbr’s death. He that is inftituted may enter into the 
glebe land before induction, and has right to have it 
againft any ftranger; per Coke Ch. J. Roll. R. 192. 
There is a writ grounded on-the fiat, articuli cleri, c. 6, 
where a parfon is difirained in his glebe lands by Iheriffs, 
cr other officers ; againfi whom attachment lhall ilfue. 
New Nat. Br. 386, 7. 
GLE'BEC, a town of United America, in the fiate of 
Virginia : ten miles fouth-eafi of Tappahanoc. 
GLEBO'SE, adj. Glebous. Not muck vfed. 
GLEBOS'ITY, f. [from The fiate or qua¬ 
lity of being glebous. Scott. 
GLE'BOUS, adj. [from ] Turfy. 
GLE'BOUSNESS, J. [from glebous.'] The fiate or 
quality of being glebous. Scott. 
GLEBOW', a town of the duchy of Courland : eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth of Mittaw. 
GLEB'ULENT, adj. \_glebulentus, Lat.] Cloddy; 
abounding with clods, &c. 
GLE'BY, Turfy; perhaps in the following paf- 
fage, fat or fruitful : 
Pernicious flatt’ry ! thy malignant feeds 
In an ill hour, and by a fatal hand 
badly diffus’d o’er virtue’s land. 
With rifing pride amidft the corn appear, 
And choke the hopes and harvefi of the year. Prior. 
GLECHO'MA, f. [from the name of a 
plant in Diofeorides. ] Ground-Ivy ; in botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the clafs didynamia, order gymnofpermia, natu¬ 
ral order verticillatar, (labiatas, JuJ.) The generic 
tharablers are—Calyx : perianthium otie-leafed, tubu¬ 
lar, cylindric, ftreaked, very final!, permanent; mouth 
five-cleft, acuminate, unequal. Corolla: one-petalled, 
ringent ; tube flender, comprefled ; upper lip ere£t, 
obtufe, femibifid ; lower fpreading, larger, obtufe, tri¬ 
fid ; middle fegnient larger, emargitiate. Stamimt ; fi- 
G L E 6n 
faments four, under the upper Up,, of -which two are 
fiiorter ; each pair of anthers converging in form of a 
crofs. Pifiillum : germ four-cleft; fiyle filiform, bend¬ 
ing beneath the upper lip ; fiigma bifid, acute. Peri- 
carpium : none ; calyx cherifhing the feeds in its bofom,. 
Seeds: four, ovate.— EJj'ential CharaEicr. Calyx, five- 
clcft; each pair of anthers converging in form of a crofs. 
There is but one fpecies of ground-ivy at prefent 
known ; it is called Glechoma hederacea. The root is 
perennial, fending-out trailing four-cornere'd fiioots, pro¬ 
ducing roots at the joints, and fpreading wide )i the 
flowering fialks fpring from the joints, which are woolly ; 
thefe are upright but weak, fquare, hirfute with hairs 
turning dov/nward, from four to fix inches high ; leaves 
oppofite, wrinkled, fome-iA-hat hairy, on grooved pe¬ 
tioles, as long as the leaves; they are befet underneath, 
with hollow dots, in which are glands fecreting an effen- 
tial oil, and above with little eminences, but which do 
not fecrete any odoriferous oil, fo that this furface being 
rubbed gives out no peculiar feent, whereas the under 
furface affords a pleafant reviving fmell; peduncles 
axillary, oppofite, fhort, branched, fupporting from 
three to five flowers ; there is a pair of floral leaves at 
the branching of the peduncle, and another pair under 
each of the lateral flow-ers ; they are fubulate, or leta- 
ceous, and very frnall ; the middle flower has none ; 
calyx hairy, fireaked, vrith the teeth nearly equal ; co¬ 
rolla blue, (fbmetimes varying to white ;) the large mid¬ 
dle fegmenr of the lower lip marked with purple Ipots 
of a deeper colour, and hairy at the bafe ; ftamens fome- 
times in tlie fpring imperfedt, with filaments only half 
the iifual length, terminated by a rcddifli blunt point,, 
or foir.etimes by effete anthers : when perfedt, the an¬ 
thers, after burfiing, form a crofs, or the fliape of the 
letter X, It is-very firange th.at Scopoli flihuld deny 
this charadter, no lefs evident than beautiful and fingu- 
lar. We can account for it only by fuppofing that he- 
mufi have examined the flowers when they were in an 
imperfect fiate, which they frequently are early in the 
ipring. The leaves are often deformed with red hairy 
tumours, which are the galls of the Cynips glechoma:. 
It gradually e.xpels plants which grow near it, and thus 
impoveriflies pafiures. The leaves were formerly ihrowir 
into the vat with ale to clarify it, and to give it a flavour. 
This was called gill-ale-, ground-ivy being named gilG^ 
or gill-creep-by-ground, in fome places. From'this ufe of 
the plant, and the form of its leaves, it has alfo the 
names of alc-hoof and tun-hoof, &c. but it has gradually 
grown into difufe fince the introdudlion of hops. Cattle 
I'eem rarely to touch it; according to Linnteus, fiieepv 
eat it, horfes are not fond of it, and it is refufed by 
cows, goats, and fwine. It is laid to be injurious to 
horfes, if they cat much of it. d'he exprelled juice, 
mixed with a little wine, and applied morning andv 
evening, defiroys the white fpecks upon horles eyes. 
Ground-ivy has a peculiar firong fmell, and a bitlcrilh 
tafte, fomewhat aromatic. It was formerly in conlide- 
rable credit for pebtoral, detergent, aperient, diuretic, 
corroborant, and other, qualities; and ■v\'as recommended 
particularly in pulmonary and nephritic complaints.. 
In obftinate coughs, it is fiill a favourite remedy with, 
the common people; but it is little prelcribed by me-- 
dical pradtitioners, and is wholly dilcarded from the 
materia medica of the London college. Mr..Ray-gives.- 
a remarkable infiance of its eflicacy in removing a vio¬ 
lent and inveterate head-achc by drawing the juice of 
the plant up the nofirils : but Dr., Cullen will not allow 
it to a£t; any ofherwife than as an errhine. He alld. 
thinks the ufe of it in ale to be frivolous; and afnrms,. 
that in many cafes wliere he had leen it employed, there 
was no evidence either of its diuretic or pectoral etiedts.. 
It is mofi ufually taken in form ot an intufion or tea; 
the exprefi'ed juice is alfo ufed with honey in couglis : 
a conlerve or fyrup is alfo made with it. Tlte difiiUed 
Witter taunoi be of any avail. Some foreign phyficiaiis 
feeni. 
