▪ I. glore, n. dial.
(glɔə(r))
Also 7 glorre, 9 glur, glor.
[Of obscure origin.]
Loose fat; excessive quantity of fat. Commonly attrib. or quasi-adj. in glore-fat.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Hantsh. ii. (1662) 2 Their flesh..though not all Glorre (where no bancks of lean can be seen for the Deluge of fat) is no less delicious to the taste. 1684 Yorksh. Dial. 165 (E.D.S. No. 76) Here's fine Backon, Sister, its glore Fat. 1796 W. Marshall Yorksh. (ed. 2) Gloss. (E.D.S.), Glor-fat, very fat. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Glor fat, loose fat. ‘All of a glor and a jelly’, tremulous with adiposity. 1876 Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. s.v., Of a very fat person whose flesh shakes upon her, it will be said, ‘She's fair glor fat’, quite loose fat. 1887 S. Chesh. Gloss. s.v. Glur, Hey's brought this Christmas beif wom; an' it's aw of a glur. |
▪ II. glore, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 8–9 gloar, glooar, 9 gloor.
[ME. glōren = Du. gloren, LG. glôren to glow (of embers), WFris. gloarje, Sw. and Norw. dial. glora to glow, stare, Icel. glóra to gleam, glare (as the eyes of a cat); app. f. the root glō-: see glow v.1 A form gluren of like meaning is found in Du. and LG., but may be of different origin.
Sense 2 is identical with that of glower v., but the words cannot be immediately related to each other. Recent dialect glossaries show that gloar or gloor (glooar) is still in common use in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Lincolnshire; for the variation in the vowel compare floor (:—OE. flór) and moor (:—OE. mór).]
† 1. intr. To shine, glitter, glisten. (= glare v. 1.) Obs.
| 13.. St. Bernard 356 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 47 Ne hit nas parseyued no more Till þat his lippes þerof deede glore. c 1350 Barlaam & Josaphat 347 Feyr it gloriþ w{supt} oute, wit inne it is nouȝt. 1540 Palsgr. Acolastus Prol. B iv, Why glore thyn eyes..in thy heade [quid ardent lumina?]? |
2. To look fixedly, gaze intently; to stare open-eyed. (= glare v. 2, glower v.) Obs. exc. dial.
Explained in Bailey 1728 ‘To look a-skew’.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1074 Thane glopnede þe glotone and glorede un-faire. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4859 With blody eyne he gloryd. 1570 Levins Manip. 174 To Glore, gase, patulis oculis spectare. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Glore, to look staringly. 1708 T. Ward Eng. Ref. ii. (1716) 222 Sometimes..a greedy Gull Would get his Gullet cram'd so full Ast' make him glore, and gasp for Wind. c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 38 He glooart at't a good while. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstr. I. 159 Under the wenches' bonnets he'd glower [rimes with sore]. 1833 York Minster Screen 152 (E.D.S. 76) Oa'd Jamie..Glooaring at t' fire. a 1861 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady (1863) 135 Like a foe, whose settled leering eye In silence gloared with hope to mark his fall. |
3. Comb. † glore-eye (cf. glare-eye, glare v. 5), a staring eye.
| 1640 J. Gower Ovid's Fest. vi. 127 Great heads; glore eyes; hook-beaks upon their jaws. |
Hence ˈgloring vbl. n., gleaming, glittering.
| 1632 Brome Novella ii. i. (1653) I. 5 b, A man may spie An old whore-master in the darkest night Like an old Cat, by th' gloring of his eyes. |