Middle English Dictionary Entry
gleuī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | gleuī adj. Also (error) gwewe. |
| Etymology | From gleu n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Viscous, glutinous; sticky, cohesive; (b) bituminous, pitchy; (c) fig. ensnaring.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)63a/a : In þe firste ioynynge of þe boones is a maner of glewy & gleymy [L viscosa] moisture.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)84a/a : Blereynesse of yȝen is clemy & glewy [L glutinosa] superfluyte of yȝen clevinge to þe yȝe liddes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)247b/a : Storax is..hoote and druye wiþ glewy [L glutinosam] substaunce.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)69b/b : Viscosus: gwewe.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)175b/a : Þe place oweþ to be defended..with a skyn or a cloþ cered or with white of airen or somme glewy þing persed.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.75 : To preue hit [soil] faat, a clod avisily Let take, and with good watir wel hit wete, And loke yf hit be glewy, tough to trete.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.412 : Sum [lime] sustene In thaxe, al gluy, tough & soft.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)76a/a : Slymy watir & glewy [L bituminosa] keliþ & dryeþ and stanchip rennynge of blood.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.14.10 : The wodi valei forsothe had manye pyttis of gluwy cley [vr. glewysch(e cley; WB(2): pitche; L bituminis].
c
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)183 : For withholdinge and ful of cley and arestinge and glewy [F bitumineus] is thilke of wordlich richesse.