gliftt (glift)

[ME. gliften, var. of gliffen: see gliff.] Same as gliff. gliket, n. Another form of gleek1. glim (glim), v.i. [ pery. [Prov. Eng.] Two men led my mother down a steep and gliddery stair R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, iv. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I will intend, way. I'll do 't before I speak. Shak ., Lear, i. 1. He has not the glib faculty of sliding ouer a tale, but his words come squeamishly out of his mouth, and the laughter commonly before the iest. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Downe-right Scholler. glib2 (glib), n. [ glib , a lock of hair, also a slut.] 1. A bushy head of hair, formerly common among the Irish. See the IMG:content-2387.png:[blocks in formation] The Irish prince e, and with her a fifteen others moe, With hanging glybbes that hid their necks as tynsel shadow. Warner, Albion's England, v. 26. ing snoe. Their hair they wore long behind and curled on to the shoulders, and cut in front to cover the forehead with a fringe or glib . W. S. Gregg, Irish Hist. for Eng. Readers, p. 36. 2. A man wearing such a bush of hair. In Tyrconnell the haire of their head grows so long and curled that they goe bare-headed, and are called glibs , the women glibbins. Gains ford, Glory of Eng., p. 151. glib3+ (glib), v. t. [Rare, and perhaps a mere error for lib ; or due to confusion with gib2 , q. v.; there is nothing to show that grepresents the prefix ge- (see i-1), as in D. gelubt , OD. ghe lubt (Kilian), pp. of lubben , lib: see lib .] To castrate. I had rather glib myself than they Should not produce fair i ue. Shak ., W. T., ii. 1. glibber (glib'er), a . [Appar. glibberen , slide, freq. of glippen = MLG. glippen , slide, slip (cf.