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▪ I. glib, n.1 Hist.|glɪb|
Also 6 glibe, 6, 9 glyb(be, 7 gleb, 6, 7, 9 glib(b(e.
[a. Irish glib.]
A thick mass of matted hair on the forehead and over the eyes, formerly worn by the Irish.
1537Act 28 Hen. VIII, c. 15 Stat. Irel. (1678) 92 No person..shall..use the wearing of haire upon their heads, like unto long lockes, called glibbes. 1570Perrott in O'Flanagan Munster Circuit (1880) 3, I have caused all the Irishry in this province to forego their glybbes. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. viii. 28 in Holinshed, For default of other stuffe, they paune theyr glibs, the nailes of their fingers and toes [etc.]. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 123 The lappets of their eares hidden under the curled glibbes and lockes of haire lying all over them. 1812Southey Lett. (1856) II. 304 My hair has escaped cutting..and..shall be reserved for a glib till the spring. 1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 384 A sort of covering, resembling a monk's cowl, or the glibbe of the ancient Irish.
attrib.1861Wilde Catal. Antiq. in Roy. Ir. Acad. 325 The glibb-fashion of wearing the hair.
b. A man who wears a glib.
1618T. Gainsford Glory Eng. xvii. 151 In Tyrconnell the haire of their head grows so long and curled, that they goe bareheaded, and are called Glibs, the women Glibbins.
Hence glibbed ppl. a., wearing a glib.
1581J. Derricke Image Irel. (1883) 38 With glibbed heddes like Mars hym self. 1812J. Nott Dekker's Gulls Horn-bk. 88 note, These wood-karne went with glibbed heads, or wearing long bushy hair over their eyes.
▪ II. † glib, n.2 slang. Obs.
In 8 glibb.
A ribbon.
1753Discov. of J. Poulter 39 A Lobb full of Glibbs; a Box full of Ribbons.
▪ III. glib, a. and adv.|glɪb|
Also 6–7 glibb(e.
[See glibbery a.]
A. adj.
1. Smooth and slippery in surface or consistency; moving easily; offering no resistance to motion. Of movement: Easy, unimpeded. Now rare exc. dial.
1599Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 12 White and glib worms, which the anglers call Gentils. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme v. ii. 664 Arable groundes..bring forth..more in one place then in another, according as the ground shall be moist and glib [etc.]. 1615Crooke Body of Man 144 His superficies or face is like the Liuer smooth and glib. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 13 A white mixture of Tallow, Sope and Brimstone..is the best to.. make her glib or slippery to passe the water. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus i. (1682) 158 This easiness of the sliding of bodies perfectly smooth and glib. 1683A. Snape Anat. Horse i. x. (1686) 20 Covered with a slimy or snotty substance, for the more free and glib passage of the Dung. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. vii. iii. (1734) 193 A small quantity of Oil and Flour..would..render them more glib to swallow. 1772Fletcher Logica Genev. 108 Why should those who can swallow five or six camels as a glib morsel, strain at three or four gnats. 1789Davidson Seasons 161 Wi' channel-stanes, baith glib an' strong, His army did advance. 1796E. Miller Diary in C. A. Markham Hist. Buildings of Northamptonsh. (1885) 20 The Alleys in the Gaol yard were as glib as Glass. 1818L. Hunt Nymphs i. 256 With..coral, and the glib sea flowers, They furnish their faint bowers. 1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 3 Seeking bright glib ice, to play And slide the wintry hours away. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiv. (1856) 310 A fine bare surface of fresh ice, extremely glib and durable. 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 101 The snow lies glib as glass and hard as steel. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Glib, soft, smooth.
transf. and fig.1607Shakes. Timon i. i. 53 All Mindes, As well of glib and slipp'ry Creatures, as Of Graue and austere qualitie, tender downe Their seruices to Lord Timon. 1678Marvell Growth Popery 27 That this House might appear still necessary to the People, and to make the money more glib.
2. Of an action, method, procedure: Easy, meeting no obstruction; off-hand.
1598Marston Pygmal. v. 157 He's a God that can doe villany With a good grace, and glib facility. 1643Milton Divorce Wks. 1738 I. 162 The method is so glib and easy. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. xii. (1713) 313 How glib, how easie and how natural would it have been upon this Hypothesis? 1852D. G. Mitchell Dream Life 124 The glib, easy way of one student, and his perfect sang-froid completely charm you.
3. Of a speaker or writer, of the tongue, etc.: ‘Well-oiled’, ready and fluent in utterance. Of language: Characterized by fluency and readiness. Chiefly in contemptuous use, implying lack of thought or of sincerity.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 77 Is glib rumor growne a parasite? 1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 227, I want that glib and oylie Art, To speak and purpose not. 1606― Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 58 These encounterers so glib of tongue. 1605Breton Old Man's Lesson F, Take heede of a Leering Eye and a Glibbe tongue. 1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes i. (Arb.) 12 A hye sound and glib deliuery. 1639Fuller Holy War v. xix. (1640) 261 Their glib pennes making no more reckoning of men then of pins. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 234 Familiarity..begets a current glib language. 1705Berkeley Commonpl. Bk. Wks. 1871 IV. 429 Glib, coherent, methodical discourses, which nevertheless amount to just nothing. 1792D. Lloyd Voy. Life 79 Prompt Deception glib with flatt'ring lies! 1820Coleridge Lett., Convers., etc. I. 137 A contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists. 1827Lady Granville Lett. Oct. (1894) I. 435 The..husband talks very good glib French and is intelligent. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, Thou art too glib of tongue for a subject. 1884G. Allen Philistia II. 87 The ordinary glib commonplaces of obituary notices. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains 255 His glib, random criticism took a wider range. 1893Vizetelly Glances Back II. xxix. 152 [He] was..a glib and ready speaker.
†b. Of words: Easy to pronounce. Also of a statement: Easily ‘swallowed’, plausible. Obs.
1603H. Crosse Vertues Commonw. (1878) 103 O how will they diue into the bottome of their braine! for fluant termes..to varnish theyr lyes and fables to make them glib. 1608Middleton Mad World v. i. 74 The Slip! by my troth a pretty name, and a glib one.
4. Comb., as glib-tongued adj.; † glib-board (see quot. 1894); glib-gabbet a. Sc., voluble, loquacious.
1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 29 Men walking on them [Brine Pans] with Boards tyed to their Feet called *Glib-Boards. 1894Harris Techn. Fire Insur. Comment., Glib boards, in salt-works, the boards tied to the men's feet to enable them to walk in the salt-pans.
1786Burns Earnest Cry xiii, That *glib-gabbet Highland Baron The Laird o' Graham.
1605Laugh & lie downe in Collier Bibl. Acc. (1865) I. 452 The next was a nimble witted and *glib-toung'd fellow. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. ii, Fauchet approves himself a glib-tongued, strong-lunged, whole-hearted human individual. 1895Educat. Rev. 223, I have not said that a liberal education includes of necessity the prolonged scholastic study of many languages, much less the glib-tongued use of many languages.
B. adv.
1. Smoothly; easily. Now rare.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 5 After I had moistned my lippes, to make my lie run glibbe. 1600Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (Grosart) 19/2 An idle Mate, Whose tongue goes all too glibbe vpon the seare. 1627Drayton Agincourt, etc. 189 Let your numbers run Glib as the former, so shall it liue long. 1696W. Mountague Delights Holland 223 Having a little Tub of Water upon the Sledge, which they often spill on the Ground, to make it go the glibber. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. iii, A noose that slipt as glib as a bird-catcher's gin. a1734North Exam. i. iii. §39 (1740) 145 The Bill did not pass glib. 1775Fletcher Script. Scales ii. xx. Wks. 1795 V. 303 note, To make it go down glib with all the rigid bound-willers in Christendom. 1830Scott Doom Devorgoil iii. ii, Father's razor slips as glib As from courtly tongue a fib. 1867J. M. Sewall Laughing in Bk. Humor. Poet. 103 It makes the wheels of nature glibber play.
2. Volubly; fluently.
1628W. Pemble Rec. Lord's Supper 62 If the tongue goe glibbe. 1682Dryden Dk. of Guise iv. iii, Love has oiled your tongue to run so glib. 1778Foote Trip Calais i. Wks. 1799 II. 339 Mere infants..sputter French, more freer and glibber than your daughter. 1813E. S. Barrett Heroine (1815) III. 27 You talked so glib of your great estates. 1887Besant The World went i. 7 The words drop out glib, and seem to mean nothing.
3. Comb., as glib-gliding adj.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 90 How th' Airs glib-gliding firmness body bears Such store of Fowls, Hail-storms, and Floods of tears.
▪ IV. glib, v.1|glɪb|
Also 6 glibe.
[f. the adj.]
†1. trans. To render glib, smooth, or slippery. Also fig. Obs.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. iv. 188 Retayling others wit, long barrelled, To glib some great mans eares, till panch be fed. 1602― Antonio's Rev. ii. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 93 The clapper of my mouth's not glibd With court oyle. 1678Lively Orac. 223 Each commission [of villany] smoothing and glibbing the way to the next.
2. To render glib or fluent.
1628Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 20 There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue, which being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor runs wilde. 1671Milton P.R. i. 371, I undertook that office, and the tongues Of all his flattering prophets glibbed with lies. 1683–4Whole Duty Man xiii. §17. 101 Men have so glibbed their tongues to lying, that they do it familiarly upon any or no occasion. 1863Robson Bards Tyne 310 They glibb'd their jaws at Lunnin. 1890Daily News 15 Oct. 5/4 Those false prophets whom Mr. Bright once denounced, the prophets whose mouths were glibbed with lies.
3. intr. To talk volubly. Obs. exc. dial.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xi. lxv. (1612) 279 Least perhaps he should haue glib'd. 1890Gloucestersh. Gloss., Glib, to talk rapidly or glibly. ‘He glibbed it over, I'll be bound.’
†4. (See quot.) Obs.
1598Florio, Guizzare..to slide, or glide, or slip, glibe away sodainely as an eele doth out of ones hand.
Hence glibbed ppl. a., ˈglibbing vbl. n.
1598Florio, Guizzo, a sliding, a gliding, a slipping, a glibbing away sodainely. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ix. 234 Their moistned braines gave leave for their glibb'd tongues to chat liberally. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 22 Smooth as glass the glibbed pool is froze.
▪ V. † glib, v.2 Obs. rare.
[app. a corruption of lib v.]
trans. To castrate; to geld.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. ii. i. 149, I had rather glib my selfe, then they Should not produce faire issue. 1640Shirley St. Patrick for Irel. v, If I come back, let me be glib'd. |