▪ I. † gleyd Sc. Obs.
Also 6, 8 glyde, gloyd.
An old worn-out horse.
| a 1568 Bannatyne MS., Wowing of Jok & Jenny 45 Ane crukit gloyd fell our ane huch. a 1586 Satire 56 in Maitland P. (1786) 183 In it may be sene Tuelf gait glydis deir of a priene. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 182 Ane auld gawd gloyd fell owre a heugh [cf. quot. a 1568]. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 42 Seldom hae I felt the loss O' Gloyd or Cow, Ouse, Goat or Yowe. 1787 Burns Let. to W. Nicol 1 June, My auld, ga'd gleyde o' a meere. |
▪ II. gleyd
obs. form of glede.
▪ III. gleyd, gleyed
vars. gleed ppl. a.