Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
glue . - A variant of
gley .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
glue .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
glue .
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Examples
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I am told on philological authority that 'glew' may stand for 'glow'.
Notes: Love Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921
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My own view is that if 'glew' be the right reading, it stands for 'glue' as in 'cherry-tree glue', 'plum-tree glue', and that Marvell thought of the dew as an exhalation:
Notes: Love Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921
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The 1681 edition reads 'glew', which I have with other editions altered to 'dew'.
Notes: Love Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921
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Reason number #26 why yew neber let goggie hab super glew.
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She now began to glew herself to his favour with the grossest adulation. —
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Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and other neccessaries belonging to the saide loft xiiij_l_. xiij_s_. ix_d_.
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His mournyng turned til ioy ful bryght, his sang in til glew.
Love is Life 1917
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Fra kare it tornes pat kyend, & lendes in myrth & glew.
Love is Life 1917
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This game, like nu-glew-tar, has no end, and the players only stop when they get hungry and adjourn to eat.
Schwatka's Search 1869
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Whan stone pottes be broken, what is better to glew them againe or make them fast, nothing like the Symunt made of Cheese; know therfore it will quickly build a stone in a drie body, which is ful of choler adust.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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