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GLEN RIN'NES, a'vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Bamtf: feven miles foutli-ead: of Jnveravon. 
GLEN UR'QUHART, a vale of Scotland, in the 
county of Invernefs. 
GLEN YAL'DER, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Aberdeen, between Loch Garr and the river Dee. 
GLEN'A, or Gle'ne, /, [from yXr,\>v), Gr.] The ball 
of the eye; the moderate hollownefs of the ends of tlie 
bones in articulation. 
GLEN'COE, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Argyle, near Loch Leven, where, in the year 1691, the 
inhabitants were malTacred, contrary to the faith of a 
royal proclamation ; feverrteen miles north of Inverary. 
GLEN'CROY, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Argyle, on the north-eaft fide of Loch Lough. 
GLENDAL'OCH, or city of the Seven Churches, in Ire¬ 
land, fituated five miles north-weft of Rothdrum, in 
the county of Wicklow. The name fignifies “the vale 
of the two lakes.” In this valley, furrotinded by high 
and almoft inacceffible mountains, St. Kevin, about the 
middle of the fixth century, founded a monaftery, which 
was much rcforled to, and at length became a bilhopric 
and a city. St. Kevin died the 3d of June, 618, aged 
one hundred and twenty ; and on that day annually num¬ 
bers of perfons flocked to the Seven Churches, to cele¬ 
brate the feftival of that venerated faint; During the 
middle ages, the city of Glendaloch, called by Hoveden 
Epifeopatus Bijlagnienfis, was held in great efteem, and its 
epifcopal jurifdiclion extended to the walls of Dublin. 
About the middle of the twelfth century, cardinal Pa- 
piro united it to the fee of Dublin; in confequence of 
which the city was fuffered to decay, and had become 
nearly a defert in 1497. From the extenfive ruins it 
appears to have been a place of confequence. The ca¬ 
thedral, the walls of which are partly ftanding, was de¬ 
dicated to St. Peter and St. Paid. South of the cathe¬ 
dral ftands a fmall church roofed with ftone, almoft 
entire; and in feveral parts of the valley are a number 
of ftone erodes, fome of which are curioully carved, but 
without inferiptions. 
GLEN'EGAD HEAD, a cape of Ireland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Donegal. Lat.55.20.N. Ion. 7.4. W. Greenwich. 
GLEN'ELY, a river of Ireland, in the county of An¬ 
trim, which runs into the fea, three miles fouth of Ge- 
ron Point. 
GLE'NGAR'RIFF, an harbour of Ireland, in the 
county of Cork, on the north-eaft part of Bantry Bay. 
GLENIC'ZA, a river of Poland, which runs into the 
Obra, near Koften, in the palatinate of Pofnania. 
GLENMO'RE, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Perth : twelve miles north-eaft of Blair Athol. 
GLENOI'DES,y. [from a cavity, and Gr. 
a form.] In anatomy, the two cavities in the turning 
joint of the neck. 
GLENOR'CHY, a village and vale of Scotland, in 
the county of Argyle : thirteen miles north of Inverary. 
GLENSHEE', a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Perth : fifteen miles eaft of Blair Athol. 
GLERS, a town of Germany, in the county of Ty¬ 
rol : twenty-one miles weft of Bolzano. 
GLE'SUMjy. With old writers, amber. 
GLEUCI'NUM, y. [Latin.] The oil that runs off 
before the olives are thoroughly prelfed. 
GLEW,y. Lat.] See Glue. 
GLIB, adj. [from Aficc, Gr. Skinner.^ Smooth; (lip- 
pery ; fo formed as to be ealily moved.—Liquid bodies 
have nothing to fuftain their parts, nor any thing to 
cement them; the parts being glib and continually in 
motion, fall off from one another, which way foever 
gravity inclines them. Burnet. —Smooth; voluble: 
I want that glib and oily art 
To fpeak and purpofe not, fince what 1 well intend. 
I’ll do’t before 1 Ipeak. 'Shake/peare. 
GLIB,y. —The Irifli have from the Scythians mantles 
and-long glibs-^ which is a thick curled bulh of hair 
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hanging do'vn over their eyes, and monftroufly difguif- 
ing them. Spenfer on Ireland, 
To GLIB, V. a. [from the adj.'\ To caftrate : 
I’ll geld them all: fourteen they fhall not fee. 
To bring falfe generations; they are coheirs. 
And I had rather g/fi myfelf, than they 
Should not produce fair iffue. Shahefp'eare, 
GLIB'BERY, adj. Smooth-faced.—Milk, milk, ye. 
glibbery urchin, is food for infants. Marjlon. 
Have each meal an orphan 
Served to your table, or ■ty glibbery heir 
Witli all his lands melted into a mortgage. Randolph. 
GLIB'LY, ado. [fromg/f^.] Smoothly; volubly.—^ 
Many who would ftartle at an oath, whofe ftomachs as 
well as confcience recoil at an obfeenity, do yet Aide 
glibly into a detradtion. Government of the Tongue. 
GLIB'NESS, y. pVom ] Smoothnefs; fiipperi- 
nefs.—The tongue is the moft ready for motion of any 
member, and by accefs of humours^acquires a glihnsfs 
too, the more to facilitate its moving. Government of the 
Tongue. 
Tb GI.IDE, V. n. [jliban. Sax. glijdcn, Dut.] To 
flow gently and fileiitiy.—In double ftream the briny 
w'Atcrs glide. Diyden. 
Where ftray the Mufes, in what lawmor-grove ? 
In thofe fair fields where facred \I\i, glides. 
Or elfe vdiere Cam his winding vales divides.. Pope. 
To pafs on without change of ftep : 
Ye gliding ghofts, permit me to relate 
The myftic wonders of your filent ftate. Dryden. 
To move fwiftly and fmoothly along.—All things are 
beheld as in a hafty motion, where the objects only glide 
before the eye, and difappear. Dryden. 
Shoals of fifli, with fins and ftiining fcales. 
Glide under the green wave. Milton. 
GLIDE,y. Lapfe ; aCl or manner of palling fmoothly r 
The fnake unlink’d itfelf. 
And with indented did flip away. Shake/pcara 
GLI'DER, y. One that glides : 
The glaunce into the heart did ^lide ; 
Hey ho t\\e glider'. 
Therewith my foul was ftiarply gride,. 
Such wounds foon waxen-wider. Spenfer. 
GLIKE,,y. [ghg. Sax. See Gleek.] A fneer; a 
feoff; a fl’out. Not in ufe: —Where’s the baftard’s braves,, 
ancl Charles his glikes. Shakefpeare. 
GLIK'EON, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Epire: twenty-fix miles weft ot Atla. 
GLIMC^NY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lemberg : twenty miles eaft-north-eaft ot Lemberg. 
To GLIM'MER, v.n. \_glimmtr, Dan. to Ihine ; glim- 
men, Dut. to glow.] To Ihine faintly.—The weft yeu, 
glimmers with fome Itreaks of day. Shakefpeare.. 
The truth appears fo naked on my fide,. 
That any purblind eye may find it out. 
—And on my fide it is fo well apparel’d,. 
So clear, fo Ihining, and fo evident,. 
That it would glimmer through a blind man s eye.. 
Shakefpeare. 
To be perceived imperfeCHy ; to appear faintly.—Tiis 
Pa^an priefthood was always in the druids; anu there 
was a perceivable glimmering of the Jewilh lites m-it,, 
though much corrupted. Swift. , , a 
GLIM'MKR,y. Faint fplendour; weak light.. A 
Ipecies of micaceous earth.—The leller inafl'es that ate 
lodged in fparry and ftony bodies, difperledly, troin their 
Ihining and glimmering, were an inducement to the wri¬ 
ters of follils to give thofe bodies the name ot mica and 
slimmer. Woodward. 
^ GLIM'MERING,/ A glimmer; ^ 
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