ˈglavering, ppl. a. Obs. exc. arch.
[f. glaver v. + -ing2.]
That ‘glavers’; deceitful, flattering.
| c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 51 Þat wicked folke..bigileþ hem of her good wiþ glauerynge wordes. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2538 Siche glauerande gomes greues me bot lyttille. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1423/1 The Chauncellor with a glauering and smiling countenance, called to the Bishop. 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. (1602) F 3 b, Giue him warning, Admonition, to forsake his sawcy glauering Grace. 1670 Stucley Gospel-Glass xxv. 242 A glavering tongue and seeming affection to our Neighbours good. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables 90 A glavering Council is as dangerous on the one hand, as a wheedling Priest..is on the other. a 1716 South Serm. (1717) VI. 121 Some slavish, glavering, flattering Parasite. 17.. Fielding Ess. Char. Men Wks. 1771 VIII. 164 A constant, settled, glavering, sneering smile in the countenance, is so far from indicating goodness, that [etc.]. 1753 Gray's Inn Jrnl. (1756) II. 10 Drawn in by false Allurements and a glavering Smile. 1866 Athenæum 7 July 23/3 The doorkeeper is a wily, elderly Italian..He..holds his face forwards, and looks down, with a steady glavering smile, or simper, in the corners of his mouth. |
b. fig. of things.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 466 b, Such as in tymes past did persequute the Gospell of Christ..being seduced by glavering conceipt of colorable error. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Namless Cath. 363 Whom this Censurer heere vouchsafeth to besmeare with his glauering balme. |