gleet

American  

[gleet] / glit /

noun

1. Pathology.

   1. a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.

   2. persistent or chronic gonorrhea.

2. Also called nasal gleet.  Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.

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gleet British  

/ ɡliːt /

noun

1. inflammation of the urethra with a slight discharge of thin pus and mucus: a stage of chronic gonorrhoea

2. the pus and mucus discharged

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• gleety
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of gleet

1300–50; Middle English glete < Middle French glete, Old French glette < Latin glittus sticky

Example Sentences

When sporgles spanned the floreate mead And cogwogs gleet upon the lea, Uffia gopped to meet her love Who smeeged upon the equat sea.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Where the gleet is thin and pellucid, it must arise from the want of absorption of the membranes of the urethra, rather than from an increased secretion from them.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

In chronic nasal catarrh or so-called gleet, the glands between the jaw bones are very slightly, if at all, enlarged; they are loose, not hard and knotty, as in glanders.

From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

In gleet the discharges from the nostrils, as in ozena, are of a very light color.

From The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put by Riley, Harvey

Internally, used for.—Second stage of dysentery, diarrhea in an infusion of milk; in bleedings, sore mouth, leucorrhea, gleet, menorrhagia and excessive mucous discharges, nose-bleed, bleeding from extracted teeth, piles, bleeding after labor, sore throat.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson