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▪ I. † ˈglaver, n. Obs. rare.
Also glavir.
[Cf. claver.]
Chatter; loud noise.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1426 Þenne such a glauerande [? read glaver and; cf. next quot.] glam of gedered rachchez Ros. a1400–50Alexander 5504 And þar in an Ilee he heres A grete glauir & a glaam of grekin tongis.
▪ II. † ˈglaver, v. Obs.
[Of obscure origin; Ray North-country Words has an adj. ‘glave or glafe, smooth’, of which this may be a derivative; see -er5. This is plausible with regard to the sense, but the genuineness of the adj. requires confirmation, and it has no obvious etymology, unless it be an altered adoption of ON. glað-r glad. Cf. the synonymous vb. glother. The Welsh glafru to flatter is prob. from English.]
1. trans. To flatter, deceive with flattery.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 688 Þat takez not her lyfe in vayne Ne glauerez her nieȝbor wyth no gyle. 1594Barnfield Affect. Sheph. (Arb.) 23 Beare not a flattring tongue to glauer anie.
2. intr. To talk plausibly and deceitfully; to flatter. to glaver on or glaver upon: to lavish blandishments upon.
1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 330 Hou-euer antecrist glauer, he letteþ not god to do his wille. 1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. Wks. (1876) 75 They glauer and prayse it so moche that anone we synne in vaynglory. 1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf E vj, It is a very french popish woeng, to sende hyther smooth tongued Simiers to glose and glauer & hold talk of mariage. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxvii. xi. 322 He [Probus] was..smiling also after a bitter sort; yea and glavering [L. blandiens] otherwhiles upon a man to do him harme. 1643J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea xix. (1652) 468 Those who will glaver upon you, and seem as if their hearts were with you. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. Pref. 37 Partly to glaver and curry favour with the Pontifician party.
Hence † ˈglavering vbl. n. Also † ˈglaverer.
c1425St. Mary of Oignies ii. v. in Anglia VIII. 165/26 Made proude wiþ glauerynge of prosperite. Ibid. 168/36 Pryde gaf me comforte..wiþ brighte beemes of glauerynge. 1544Bale Chron. Sir J. Oldcastle in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 256 He had bene falsely informed by his hired spyes, and other glosing glauerers. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. iv. G iv b, Princes eyres corrupt with the gloriouse glavering of flatterers. 1598Marston Satyre i. 137 For shame..Leaue glauering on him in the peopled presse. 1689J. Scott Serm. Wks. 1718 II. 87 To carry ourselves at an equal distance from contempt and haughtiness on the one hand and sneaking and glavering on the other. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1707) II. xi. 7 The hypocritick Cant And pious Glav'rings of a Saint. |