englue

See also: englué

English

Etymology

en- +‎ glue: compare French engluer to smear with birdlime.

Verb

englue (third-person singular simple present englues, present participle engluing, simple past and past participle englued)

1. To join or close fast together, as if with glue.

   a coffer well englued

   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Forthy my ſone , hold up thin hede
     And let no ſlepe thin eye englue

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “englue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• lungee

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡly/

Verb

englue

1. inflection of engluer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative