glaum

English

Etymology

Unknown

Verb

glaum (third-person singular simple present glaums, present participle glauming, simple past and past participle glaumed)

1. (Scotland) To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
2. (Scotland) To grasp or snatch (at).
   • Burns

     Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• algum, almug, mulga