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
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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 George MacDonald
Jest at that minnit, who shed come right into the gleed but Marian herself!
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
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
‘And last they’ll turn me in your arms Into the burning gleed; Then throw me into well water, O throw me in wi’ speed.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
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 Cyril Brett
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