gleed
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gleed
before 950; Middle English gleed ( e ), Old English glēd; cognate with German Glut, Old Norse glōth; akin to glow
Example Sentences
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He saw the farms where the dogs were barking, Cold Crendon Court and Copsecote Larking; The fault with the spring as bright as gleed, Green-slash-laced with water weed.
From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John
‘O gin my hands had been loose, Willy, Sae hard as they are boun’, 75 I would have turn’d me frae the gleed, And castin out your young son.’
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank
True passion, that so burns to plead, Is timid as the dove's disguise; Tis for the murder-aiming gleed To dart at every thing that flies.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John
Now of me wotteth God 2650 That to me is much liefer that that, my lyke-body, With my giver of gold the gleed should engrip.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
Myne eyes with teares against the fire stryuing, With scorching gleed my hart to cynders turneth; But with those drops the coles againe reuyuing, Still more and more vnto my torment burneth.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril
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