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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Their love grows and increases continually; but the one feels shame before the other; and each conceals and hides this love so that neither flame nor smoke is seen from the gleed beneath the ashes.
From Cliges; a romance by Gardiner, Laetitia Jane
He neither kist her whan he cam, Nor clappit her when he gaed; And in and at her bower window,75 The moon shone like the gleed.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
A minuit more in this gleed, an’ some o’ us may niver leave it alive.”
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
He neither kissed her when he cam' Nor clappit her when he gaed; And in and out at her bower window, The moon shone like the gleed.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
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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