glair
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See also: g'laïr
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
glair (plural glairs)
- Egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
- Any viscous, slimy substance.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
- A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
Translations[edit]
Egg-white
Verb[edit]
glair (third-person singular simple present glairs, present participle glairing, simple past and past participle glaired)
- To smear with egg-white.
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