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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‘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
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
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 Laetitia Jane Gardiner
"Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
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
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