glew
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glew¹
- /ɡluː/
- /ɡlɪʊ̯/
Sounds like glue (not in Wales)
Where it comes from
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”).
verb
- simple past of glow
glew²
- /ɡluː/
- /ɡlɪʊ̯/
Sounds like glue (not in Wales)
Where it comes from
From Middle English glew, glu, etc.
noun glews
- 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[…]
- Obsolete form of solder, used in alchemy. Now Gold is easily associated to and with Copper; and so fit a cuspe, or point made of Gold to this Cupreous Iron; and with Borax and Golden Solidature or Soder (Gold Glew, which is made of Copper Money, a little Silver and Gold melted at the Eye is better) melt it after the accustomed manner, in a
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