GLIB

a. v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]

2.
a.

Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak.

3.
v.

To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

4.
n.

A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.

5.
v.

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.


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