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Webster 1913 Edition


Gleet

Gleet

,
Noun.
[OE.
glette
,
glet
,
glat
, mucus, pus, filth, OF.
glete
.]
(Med.)
A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
Hoblyn.

Gleet

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.
Wiseman.
2.
To flow slowly, as water.
Cheyne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gleet

GLEET

,
Noun.
The flux of a thin humor from the urethra; a thin ichor running from a sore.

GLEET

,
Verb.
I.
To flow in a thin limpid humor; to ooze.
1.
To flow slowly, as water.

Definition 2024


gleet

gleet

English

Noun

gleet (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
  2. (obsolete, except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance.
  3. (vulgar, slang) A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea.
    • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
      There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.

Verb

gleet (third-person singular simple present gleets, present participle gleeting, simple past and past participle gleeted)

  1. To flow in a thin, limpid humour; to ooze, as gleet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wiseman to this entry?)
  2. To flow slowly, as water.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cheyne to this entry?)


Scots

Noun

gleet (uncountable)

  1. Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
  2. Any slimy, viscous substance.