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glew

noun

Etymology

Either formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow) or inherited from Middle English glew, glewe (“glowed”), in turn from Old English glēow (“glowed”), past tense of Old English glōwan (“to glow”).

  1. derived from glōwan — “to glow”
  2. inherited from glēow — “glowed”
  3. inherited from glew

Definitions

  1. Obsolete form of glue.

    • When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew[…]

  2. Obsolete form of solder, used in alchemy.

  3. simple past of glow

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA