Word Meanings - GLEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A live coal. See Gleed.

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• GLENOIDAL
  Glenoid.
• GLENOID
  Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
• GLEEK
  An enticing look or glance. A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl. (more info) 1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks Shak. 2. Etym:
• GLEDE
  The common European kite . This name is also
• GLEEN
  To glisten; to gleam. Prior.
• GLEBOUS; GLEBY
  Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Prior.
• GLEUCOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• GLENGARRY; GLENGARRY BONNET
  A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings. The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet. L. Hutton.
• GLEEFUL
  Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.
• GLEAM
  To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
• GLEAD
  A live coal. See Gleed.
• GLEBA
  The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.
• GLEG
  Quick of perception; alert; sharp. Jamieson.
• GLEBELESS
  Having no glebe.
• GLEAMY
  Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.
• GLEANER
  1. One who gathers after reapers. 2. One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.
• GLENLIVAT; GLENLIVET
  A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.
• GLEN
  A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.
• GLEW
  See GLUE
• JINGLE
  1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. 2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.
• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• REGLET
  A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. of Column.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• SONGLESS
  Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
• BUGLE HORN
  1. A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. 2. A drinking vessel made of horn. And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• CINGLE
  A girth. See Surcingle.
• BRANGLE
  A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• HAGGLE
  To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay
• BUGLER
  One who plays on a bugle.
• OGLER
  One who ogles. Addison.