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▪ I. † gleim, n. Obs.
In 4–5 gleyme, 6 gleme.
[Connected with gleim v.]
1. Any sticky or slimy substance, as bird-lime or glue; also, rheum or phlegm.
c1440Promp. Parv. 198/1 Gleyme or rewme, reuma. Gleyme of knyttynge or byyndynge to-gedyrs, limus, gluten, glucium. 1516Ortus Vocab., Viscus, gleme [edd. 1500, 1509 have glewe] or lyme.
2. fig.
a. Infection.
b. Attachment, affection.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 479, I trowe þat some wikked wyȝt wrouȝte þis ordres [of friars] þoruȝ [v.r. Trow ye] þat gleym of þat gest þat Golias is y-calde. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xv. 377 [He] lackith wijf and children, and al the gleyme, loue, and delectacions whiche violentli comen anentis his wijf and hise children.
Hence † gleimed a., affected with phlegm.
14..Med. MS. in Promp. Parv. 198 note, For a..gleymede stomak, þat may noȝt kepe mete.
▪ II. † gleim, v. Obs.
In 4 glaym, 4–5 gleym(yn; see also gleam v.2
[Of obscure origin.]
trans. To smear with a sticky substance. Also fig. in pass.: To be infected (as with a disease); to be attached to something (cf. engleim).
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 197 [He] sente hem bisshoppes of þe Arrians, and þerfore alle the Gothes were infecte and i-gleymed [L. infecta fuit]. c1440Promp. Parv. 198/2 Gleymyn or yngleymyn, visco, invisco. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xv. 376 A preest forto haue in possessioun movable godis..(so that he be not gleymed with ouer myche loue to it).
Hence † ˈgleiming vbl. n., (a) the act of sticking; (b) infection. Also † ˈgleiming ppl. a., sticky; † ˈgleimingness, stickiness.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C 269 He glydez in by þe giles, þurȝ glaymande [? read glaym ande] glette. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 337 And þey covetise be a special vice to Lombardes, he put þat gleymynge [L. contagium] fer from his persone. 1398― Barth. De P.R. vii. lxx. (1495) 290 Some medycynes laxen with gleymyngnesse and makyth slypper as Mercurii and Hockes and other suche. Ibid. xvi. ii. (Tollem. MS.) For unctuouse þinge is mene bitwene gleymynge [1535 gleymie] and vaporatyf þinge. Ibid. xvii. i. (1495) 592 In some trees the leues abyde in wynter tyme for plente of humour: other for gleymynge or for sadnesse and soundnesse of the tree. |