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Webster 1913 Edition


Glew

Glew

,
Noun.
See
Glue
.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Glew

GLEW.

[See Glue.]

Definition 2024


glew

glew

English

Noun

glew (countable and uncountable, plural glews)

  1. Obsolete form of glue.
    • 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1 (page 385)
      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 []


Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlɛu̯/

Adjective

glew (feminine singular glew, plural glew, equative glewed, comparative glewach, superlative glewaf)

  1. brave, bold

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
glew lew nglew unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.