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. glebe, land, ground; probably from collecting, as in globe, 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. glada.]

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; a 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.i. [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 flux of a thin humor from the urethra; a thin ichor running 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. γληνη.]

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, n. [or v. See GLUE.]

GLI'A-DINE, n. [Gr. γλια, 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. [D. glibberen, glippen, to slide; glibberig, glib, slippery; W. llipyr; L. glaber, smooth; labor, to slide. This word contains the elements of slip. Qu. L. glubo, Gr. γλυφω. Class Lb, No. 27, 37.]

1. Smooth; slippery; admitting a body to slide easily on the surface; as, ice is glib.
2. 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.