glencht

[ME. glenchen, usually in pret. ful; joyous. IMG:content-2383.png:[blocks in formation] = gleyggr, clear as glint. Whan he saugh hym come he glenched for the stroke and girde in to the thikkest pre e, and Gawein hyna chaced that lightly wolde not hym leve. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 408.