Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLUE, v.t. [Fr. gluer.]

1. To join with glue or a viscous substance. Cabinet-makers glue together some parts of furniture.
2. To unite; to hold together. Newton. [This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense. The phrases, to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]