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Gle*noid"al (?), a. (Anat.) Glenoid.

Glent (?), n. & v. See Glint.

Gleu*com"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; must + -meter: cf. F. gleucomËtre.] An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.

Glew (?), n. See Glue. [Obs.]

Gley (?), v. i. [OE. glien, glien, gleien, to shine, to squint; cf. Icel. glj to glitter.] To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Gley (?), adv. Asquint; askance; obliquely.

Gli"a*din (?), n. [Gr. &?; glue: cf. F. gliadine.] (Chem.) Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

Glib (glb), a. [Compar. Glibber (?); superl. Glibbest (?).] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.]

1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]

2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.

Shak.

Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

Glib, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.

Spenser.

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

Southey.

Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.

Glib"ber*y (?), a. 1. Slippery; changeable. [Obs.]

My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't.

Marston.

2. Moving easily; nimble; voluble. [Obs.]

Thy lubrical and glibbery muse.

B. Jonson.

Glib"ly, adv. In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

Glib"ness, n. The quality of being glib.