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▪ I. glen1|glɛn|
Forms: α. 6, 8 glenne, 8 glenn, 6– glen. β. 6 glan. γ. 6–7 pl. glynnes; 7 glin, 7–8 glyn, 8 glynn.
[a. Gael. gleann, earlier glenn, mountain-valley = Welsh glyn. The α-forms are of Scottish origin, having been adopted from Gael. before the vowel of glenn was broken into ea. The form glan represents the Irish pronunciation of gleann, while glin is derived from the pl. glinn, and was at first employed only in the pl. glins; some examples of glyn, glin in 17–18th c. represent the Welsh or the Cornish form.
Until the middle of the 18th c. the form glen occurs in English writers only as an echo of Spenser; the ‘Glosse’ to the Shepherd's Calendar by E. K. wrongly explains the word as ‘a country hamlet or borough’.]
a. A mountain-valley, usually narrow and forming the course of a stream.
At first applied to the narrow valleys of the mountainous districts in Scotland and Ireland, but now extended to similar places in other countries.
α1489Barbour's Bruce iv. 372 (Edinb. MS.) In A glen [Camb. MS. vnder ane bra]. 1508Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 153 In till ane glen thow hes..Ane laithly luge. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 185 Thir Veanis laid ane strang garnisoun of armit men in secrete glennis to recountir the Fabis. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Apr. 26 But now from me hys madding mynd is starte, And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 102 Be thir places of wildernes, bygates, kraigs and glenis. 1748Philips Pastorals i. 79 Now left heiress of the glen she'll deem Me, landless lad, unworthy her esteem. a1756Collins Superstit. Highlands 213, I, perhaps, may tread Your lowly glens o'erhung with spreading broom. 1773Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 21 Sept., About noon we came to a small glen, so they call a valley. 1784Cowper Task vi. 403 The wilderness is theirs with all its caves, Its hollow glenns. 1796Jane Austen Pride & Prej. x. (1813) 219 The valley, here contracted into a glen. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. xvi. 337 The Oeroe..flows through a narrow glen at the western foot of Cithaeron. 1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 362 The Spaniards..suffering the wily enemy to draw them into a narrow glen or defile, intersected by a little stream of water.
β1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. II. vi. 180 They came to the side of a mounteine, where there was a glan, and in it a little groue of wood.
γ1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 615/1 He did shutt them up within those narrow corners and glinnes under the mountaynes foote. 1600Holland Livy vii. xiv. 258 All these hee chargeth..to get..into the hils, and among the glins and woods, to bestow themselves close. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. 316 In the midst of Winter hee entred the Glinnes, that is, the Vallies of Leinster, a secure receptacle of the Rebels. 1685Boyle Salub. Air 10 Another great scope of land, which was divided from it but by a glin. 17..C. Littleton in C. A. Johns Week at Lizard (1848) 81 Another rotten moor brings you to a Glyn or narrow Valley. 1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 1 This stream of wind..arose from a glin called Allgolan. 1756Home Douglas iii. i, We found him lurking in the hollow glynn. 1767Bush Hibernia Cur. (1769) 72 The glyns, or dark vallies..of this country, are many of them remarkably beautiful.
b. Comb., as glen-boy, glen-full, glen-head, glen-man.
1841S. C. Hall Ireland I. 186 We reached the pleasant and improving inn at Kenmare, and dismissed the *glen-boy.
1859M. Napier Mem. Visc. Dundee I. i. 45 That *glen-full [Glencoe] of murdered Scotchmen!
1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 423 Sheep..ought to be allowed as much of the *glenheads, breas, and foot of the hills, as will support them during the severity of the winter and spring months.
1880Brewer Reader's Hand-bk., s.v. Glencoe, The massacre of M'Ian and thirty-eight of his *glenmen.
c. Also attrib., designating check fabrics, esp. Glenurquhart check.
1923Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 (Advt.), Smartly tailor made Glen Check Tweed. Ibid., The new glen and plumage checks. 1967‘T. Wells’ What should you know of Dying? x. 115 A double-breasted glen plaid suit was his uniform of the day. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 218 Glen check. ‘Glen’ describes many check fabrics originally Scottish in design. It is similar to Shepherd's check but can be in any combination of colours and has a large overcheck.
Hence ˈglenikin, ˈglenlet, a little glen. nonce-wds.
1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 120 Every glen and glenikin had its river, or its stream, or its burn, or its rill. 1892Gd. Words Apr. 239/1 A prettily wooded glenlet.
▪ II. glen2 Sc.
‘A daffodil’ (Jam.).
1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 297 The wild lilies, or glens, of Craufurdland Castle. 1880Jubilee W. O. Fenwick 3 The children..were..supplied each one with a large bouquet of glens. |