▪ I. glar, glaur, n. Sc. and north. dial.
(glɑːr, glɔːr)
Also glair, gloar.
[Of unknown origin; cf. next vb. and ON. leir mud.]
Slime, mud.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 108 He..in a myre, vp to the ene, Amang the glar did glyd. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scotl. I. 45 Five myles of this loch of Spynie..is now maid glare and myre. 1715 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. iii, Then took his bonnet to the bent And daddit aff the glar Fou clean that day. 1843 Carlyle Let. Jan. in Froude Life in Lond. (1884) I. xi. 285 Like building a dry brick house out of a quagmire of clay and glar! 1867 Sir W. Elliott in Proc. Berw. Nat. Field Club 310 Holes full of black glaur. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Glair, glaur, gloar, glar, liquid mud of the filthiest sort. |
Hence glaury a., muddy. rare.
| 1788 Picken Poems 38 Through glaury holes an' dybes nae mair Ye'll ward my pettles frae the lair. 1879 R. Adamson Lays Leisure Hours 85 Frae gilded throne to glaury sheuch. |
▪ II. glar, glaur, v. Sc.
(glɑːr, glɔːr)
Also 9 glawr.
[cf. prec. n. and glory v.2]
trans. To make muddy.
| c 1450 Henryson Wolf & Lamb iii. Poems (1865) 211 That suld presume, with thy foull lippis vyle, To glar my drink, and this fair watter fyle. 1809 Skinner Misc. Poet. 132 Just whare their feet the dubs had glawr'd, And barken'd them like bryne. |