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3. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Gleed (gld), n. [AS. gld, fr. glwan to glow as a fire; akin to D. gloed, G. glut, Icel. gl. See Glow, v. i.] A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.

Glee"ful (?), a. Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.

Gleek (?), n. [Prob. fr. Icel. leika to play, play a trick on, with the prefix ge-; akin to AS. gelcan, Sw. leka to play, Dan. lege.]

1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.]

Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?

Shak.

2. [Cf. Glicke] An enticing look or glance. [Obs.]

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.

Beau. & Fl.

Gleek, v. i. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.

Gleek, n. [OF. glic, G. gl¸ck, fortune. See Luck.]

1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [Obs.] Pepys. Evelyn.

2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [Obs.]

Glee"man (?), n.; pl. Gleemen (#). [Glee + man; AS. gleÛman.] A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

Gleen (?), v. i. [Cf. Glance, Glint.] To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] Prior.

Glee"some (?), a. Merry; joyous; gleeful.

Gleet (?), n. [OE. glette, glet, glat, mucus, pus, filth, OF. glete.] (Med.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.

Gleet, v. i. 1. To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.

2. To flow slowly, as water. Cheyne.

Gleet"y (?), a. Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.

Gleg (?), a. [Icel. glˆggr.] Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Gleire (?), Gleyre, n. See Glair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Glen (?), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael. gleann valley, glen.] A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen.

Spenser.

{ Glen*liv"at (?), Glen*liv"et (?), } n. A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

Gle"noid (?), a. [Gr. &?;; &?; socket of a joint + &?; form; cf. F. glÈnoÔde.] (Anat.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.