Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLEAN-ED, pp.

1. Gathered after reapers; collected from small detached parcels; as, grain gleaned from the field.
2. Cleared of what is left; as, the Field is gleaned.
3. Having suffered a gleaning; The public prints have been gleaned.

GLEAN-ER, n.

1. One who gathers after reapers. Thomson;
2. One who collects detached parts or numbers, or who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.

GLEAN-ING, n.

1. The act of gathering after reapers.
2. That which is collected by gleaning.

GLEAN-ING, ppr.

Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.

GLEBE, n. [L. gleba, a clod or lump of earth; Fr. gleb, land, ground; probably from collecting, as in globs, club.]

1. Turf; soil; ground. Till the glad summons of a genial ray. Unbinds the glebe. Garth.
2. The land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice. Spelman. Encyc.
3. A crystal., [Obs.] Arbuthnot.
4. Among miners, a piece of earth in which is contained some mineral ore. Encyc.

GLEB-OUS, a.

Gleby; turfy. Dict.

GLEB-Y, a.

Turfy; cloddy.

GLEDE, n. [Sax. glida; from glidan, to glide; Sw. lada.]

A fowl of the rapacious kind, the kite, a species of Falco. The word is used in Deut. xiv; 13, but the same Hebrew word, Lev. xi; 14, is rendered a vultur.

GLEE, n. [Sax. glie, from glig, gligg, sport, music.]

1. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.
2. A sort of catch or song sung in parts. Mason; Busby.

GLEED, n. [Sax. gled.]

A glowing coal; [Obs.] Chaucer.

GLEE'FUL, a.

merry; gay; joyous. Shak.

GLEEK, n. [See Glee.]

1. Music, or a musician; [Obs.] Shak.
2. A scoff; u game at cards. [Obs.]

GLEEK, v.i.

To make sport of; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.

GLEE'MAN, n.

A musician; [Obs.]

GLEEN, v. [W. glan, clean, pure, holy, bright; gleiniaw, to purify, to brighten; Ir; glan.]

To shine; to glisten; [Not used] Prior.

GLEE'SOME, a.

Merry; joyous. [Obs.]

GLEET, n. [from Sax. glidan, to glide, or hlyttrian, to melt; Ice. glat.]

The Aux of a thin humor from the urethra; a thin ichor run-nine from a sore. Encyc. Wiseman.

GLEET, v.i.

1. To flow in a thin limpid humor; to ooze. Wiseman.
2. To flow slowly, as water. Cheyne.

GLEET-Y, a.

Ichorous; thin; limpid.

GLEN, n. [W. glyn, a valley in which a river flows, as if from llyn, liquor, water; Sax, glen; Ir. glean.]

A valley; a dale; a depression or space between hills.

GLENE, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

In anatomy, the cavity or socket of the eye, and the pupil; any slight depression or cavity receiving a bone in articulation. Parr. Cyc.

GLEW,

See GLUE.

GLI'A-DINE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, glue.]

One of the constituents of gluten, a slightly transparent, brittle substance, of a straw-yellow color, having a slight smell, similar to that of honeycomb. Ure. Berzelius has decided that gliadine is nothing but pure gluten.

GLIB, a.

1. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide. glibberig, glib, slippery; W. Ilipyr; L. gluber, smooth; labor, to slide. Thu word contains the elements of slip. Qu. L. glubo, Gr, {foreign}. Class Lb, No. 27, 37.]
2. Smooth; slippery; admitting a body to elide easily on the surface; as, ice is glib.
3. Smooth; voluble; easily moving; as, a glib tongue.

GLIB, n.

A thick curled bush of hair hanging down over the eyes. [Not in use.] Spenser.