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Webster'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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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