gleek2 (glek)

t. [ Come, gentlemen, what's your game? Why, gleek; that's your only game. Gleek let it be, for I am persuaded I shall gleek some of you. J. Cook, Green's Tu Quoque. ME.; AS. (ONorth.) gliew - mēden: see glee1, 2, and maiden.) A female minstrel. The glee - maiden bent her head low, gan the song of Poor Louise. and then be gley Glegat the uptake, quick of perception or understanding. A gude tale's no the waur o' being twice tauld,.. and a body has aye the better chance to understand it. Every body's no sae gleg at the uptake as ye are your sell Scott , Old Mortality. vii. The European spar[Scotch.] Gladder than gleo - man that gold hath to gyfte. Piers Plowтап (C), xii. 104. The gleemen added mimicry, and other means of promoting mirth, to their profe ion, as well as dancing and nd tumbling, with sleights of hand, and variety of deceptions to amuse the spectators. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 251. The visits of the gleeman and the juggler, or "tumbler," were welcome breaks in the monotony of the thegn's life. It is hard not to look kindly at the gleeman , for he no doubt did much to preserve the older poetry J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 324. which even now was ebbing away. No rude shows of a theatrical kind; no minstrel, with his harp and legendary ballad, nor gleeman , with an ape dancing to his music. Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, p. 270. You see, at the court of the Great Kaan there was a great number of gleemen and jugglers. Yule , tr. of Marco Polo, II. 54. gleent, v. i. [Not found except in quot. from Prior, and perhaps an error for gleam1 . Cf. gleam2 for glean1 .] To shine; glisten. Those who labour The sweaty forge, who edge the crooked scythe, Bend stubborn steel, and harden gleening armour, Acknowledge Vulcan's aid. Prior , First Hymn of Call i mach us. Gleichenieæ.