Defn: Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
"Gleby land." Prior.
GLEDE Glede, n. Etym: [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle,, Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
GLEDE
Glede, n. Etym: [See Gleed.]
Defn: A live coal. [Archaic]
The cruel ire, red as any glede. Chaucer.
GLEE
Glee, n. Etym: [OE. gle, gleo, AS. gleów, gleó, akin to Icel. gl: cf.
Gr.
1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.
3. (Mus.)
Defn: An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.