glew

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English glew, glu, etc.

Noun

glew (countable and uncountable, plural glews)

1. 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 […]

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

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu, from Late Latin glūs, from Latin glūten, from Proto-Italic *gloiten.

Alternative forms

• glu, glue, glewe, gleu, glowe, glyw, glyu, gleuwe, gluwe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡliu̯/

Noun

glew (plural glewes)

2. A adhesive or adherent; something that binds:
   1. glue; a substance designed to adhere two things together.
   2. birdlime; a trap or capturing mechanism.
   3. A tar or resin; any natural adherent.

Related terms

• glewen
• glewer
• glewy
• glewysch
• gluynge

Descendants

• English: glue
• Scots: glue

References

• “gleu (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

Etymology 2

From Old English glēaw.

Noun

glew

2. Alternative form of gleu.

Etymology 3

From Old English glīwian.

Verb

glew

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

Etymology 4

From Old French gluer.

Verb

glew

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛu̯/

Adjective

glew (feminine singular glew, plural glewion, equative glewed, comparative glewach, superlative glewaf)

1. brave, bold

Synonyms

• (brave): gwrol, dewr

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
glew	lew	nglew	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.