gleet
Americannoun
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Pathology.
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a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
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persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
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Also called nasal gleet. Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.
noun
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inflammation of the urethra with a slight discharge of thin pus and mucus: a stage of chronic gonorrhoea
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the pus and mucus discharged
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gleet
1300–50; Middle English glete < Middle French glete, Old French glette < Latin glittus sticky
Example Sentences
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I am beneficial in cases of liver disease, impurities of the blood, flatulence, kidney disease, dyspepsia, brown phlegm, tumours, gout, rheumatism, gleet, and complications arising from these.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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 Erasmus Darwin
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
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 Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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 Carolyn Wells
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