▪ I. † gleim, n. Obs.
In 4–5 gleyme, 6 gleme.
[Connected with gleim v.]
1. Any sticky or slimy substance, as bird-lime or glue; also, rheum or phlegm.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 198/1 Gleyme or rewme, reuma. Gleyme of knyttynge or byyndynge to-gedyrs, limus, gluten, glucium. 1516 Ortus Vocab., Viscus, gleme [edd. 1500, 1509 have glewe] or lyme. |
2. fig. a. Infection. b. Attachment, affection.
| c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 479, I trowe þat some wikked wyȝt wrouȝte þis ordres [of friars] þoruȝ [v.r. Trow ye] þat gleym of þat gest þat Golias is y-calde. c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. xv. 377 [He] lackith wijf and children, and al the gleyme, loue, and delectacions whiche violentli comen anentis his wijf and hise children. |
Hence † gleimed a., affected with phlegm.
| 14.. Med. MS. in Promp. Parv. 198 note, For a..gleymede stomak, þat may noȝt kepe mete. |
▪ II. † gleim, v. Obs.
In 4 glaym, 4–5 gleym(yn; see also gleam v.2
[Of obscure origin.]
trans. To smear with a sticky substance. Also fig. in pass.: To be infected (as with a disease); to be attached to something (cf. engleim).
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 197 [He] sente hem bisshoppes of þe Arrians, and þerfore alle the Gothes were infecte and i-gleymed [L. infecta fuit]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 198/2 Gleymyn or yngleymyn, visco, invisco. c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. xv. 376 A preest forto haue in possessioun movable godis..(so that he be not gleymed with ouer myche loue to it). |
Hence † ˈgleiming vbl. n., (a) the act of sticking; (b) infection. Also † ˈgleiming ppl. a., sticky; † ˈgleimingness, stickiness.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C 269 He glydez in by þe giles, þurȝ glaymande [? read glaym ande] glette. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 337 And þey covetise be a special vice to Lombardes, he put þat gleymynge [L. contagium] fer from his persone. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. vii. lxx. (1495) 290 Some medycynes laxen with gleymyngnesse and makyth slypper as Mercurii and Hockes and other suche. Ibid. xvi. ii. (Tollem. MS.) For unctuouse þinge is mene bitwene gleymynge [1535 gleymie] and vaporatyf þinge. Ibid. xvii. i. (1495) 592 In some trees the leues abyde in wynter tyme for plente of humour: other for gleymynge or for sadnesse and soundnesse of the tree. |