glew
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English glew, glu, etc.
Noun
glew (countable and uncountable, plural glews)
- Obsolete form of glue.
- 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1 (page 385)
- When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew […]
- 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1 (page 385)
Etymology 2
Formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow). Probably not from Early Middle English glew (“glowed”) or its ancestor Old English glēow (“glowed”), due to the long gap in attestation.
Verb
glew
- (nonstandard) simple past tense of glow
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for glew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French glu, from Late Latin glūs, from Latin glūten, from Proto-Italic *gloiten.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlɛu̯/
Noun
glew (plural glewes)
References
- “gleu (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.
Etymology 2
From Old English glēaw.
Etymology 3
From Old English glīwian.
Etymology 4
From Old French gluer.
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlɛu̯/
Adjective
glew (feminine singular glew, plural glew, equative glewed, comparative glewach, superlative glewaf)