Lexicographical Neighbors of Glibbed
Literary usage of Glibbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Also called glutin and vegetable ¡¡ciati n. glib1 (glib), r. ; prêt, and pp.
glibbed, ppr. glib- bing. [Of dial, origin, appar. from the more orig. verb ..."
2. The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music, with Some Account by Wiliam Laird Manson (1901)
"... Upon the glibbed route, And with thar weapons meete for warns, These vaunting
foes they ... The piper lyes on grounde ; And here a sort of glibbed ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"[Glouc.] GLIB. vb. To talk rapidly or glibly. [V. of Glos.] " He glibbed it over,
I'll be bound." GLIM. sb. A light. [V. of Glos.] GLIMPSE. vb. ..."
4. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"479 ; arm his profane tongue with contemptuous words : C. 781 ; the tongues ...glibbed
with lies : PRI 374 ; God... sets upon their tongues a ..."
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