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Glib
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak.
Synonyms: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.