gleed

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A minuit more in this gleed, an' some o' us may niver leave it alive Jupiter and Harkness have brought up the horses, and are holding them in readiness.

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  1. noun Archaic A glowing coal; an ember.

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  • A minuit more in this gleed, an' some o' us may niver leave it alive Jupiter and Harkness have brought up the horses, and are holding them in readiness. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • After speculating till thought was weary, he lay down beside Harry, whom he was thankful to find in a still repose, and fell fast asleep Margaret lay on a couch in Lady Emily's room, and slept likewise; but she started wide awake at every moan of the invalid, who often moaned in her sleep CHAPTER XX THE BAD MAN She kent he was nae gentle knight That she had letten in; For neither when he gaed nor cam Kissed he her cheek or chin He neither kissed her when he cam Nor clappit her when he gaed; And in and out at her bower window The moon shone like the gleed Glenkindie. —  David Elginbrod
  • Into the burning gleed; —  A Collection of Ballads
  • "Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb. —  The Bride of Lammermoor
  • He cocked to the effort with eyes bright as gleed, —  Right Royal
 

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  1. Middle English glede, from Old English glēd; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English gleede, glede, from Anglo-Saxon glēd = Old Northumbrian gloed, a glowing coal, flame, fire (= Old Saxon *glōd (in comp. glōd-welo, gold, literally ‘fire-wealth’ welo = English weal) = OFries. glēd, glōd = Dutch gloed = Middle Low German glōt, Low German gloot= Old High German Middle High German glout, G. glut, gluth = Icelandic glōdh (plural glædhr) = Swedish Danish glöd, a glowing coal), from Anglo-Saxon glōwan, English glow: see glow. For the formative -d, cf. seed, ult. from sow, mead, ult. from mow, flood, ult. from flow; blood, ult. from blow, etc.
  2. from gleed, n.
 

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