Glib /(glĭb)/
Glib
a.
- Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
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Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.
Glib
v. t.
- To make glib. [Obs.]
Glib
n.
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A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]
The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.
Glib
v. t.
- To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.]