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Definition of Glebous
1. a. Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
Definition of Glebous
1. cloddy [adj] - See also: cloddy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glebous
Literary usage of Glebous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom: Relative to the Strata of Coal by John Williams, James Millar (1810)
"The uniform sort is called dank, and the glebous sort is called blaes, or, ...
Both the uniform and the glebous soft blaes frequently con- Iain ball ..."
2. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"A closer inspection shows the coagula to consist of a glebous- like, fibro-glebous
blastema, or of a faintly striated, membranous basement,—like the inner, ..."
3. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... and the glebous kind ... Both the uniform and glebous foft blae» frequently
contain a quantity of ball ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"1. earthlike. cloddy (depreciatory), terrene (rare), glebous (rare); spec.
muddy, clayey, dusty. 2. terrestrial. ear wax, n. cerumen (tech.). ease, n. ..."
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