glewとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

glew (countable and uncountable, plural glews)

1. Obsolete form of glue.
   • 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1, page 385:

     When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew […]

2. Obsolete form of solder, used in alchemy.
   • 1677, Otto Tachenius, Hippocrates Chymicus, pages 113-114:

     Now Gold is easily associated to and with Copper; and so fit a cuspe, or point made of Gold to this Cupreous Iron; and with Borax and Golden Solidature or Soder (Gold Glew, which is made of Copper Money, a little Silver and Gold melted at the Eye is better) melt it after the accustomed manner, in a fitting Coal-fire, and then you shall have the Golden Nail so much spoken of.

語源 2

Either formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow) or inherited from 中期英語 glew, glewe (“glowed”), in turn from 古期英語 glēow (“glowed”), past tense of 古期英語 glōwan (“to glow”).

動詞

glew

1. (dialectal) simple past of glow

参照

別の表記

• glu, glue, glewe, gleu, glowe, glyw, glyu, gleuwe, gluwe

発音

• IPA: /ɡliu̯/

名詞

glew (plural glewes)

1. A adhesive or adherent; something that binds:
   1. glue; a substance designed to adhere two things together.
   2. birdlime; a trap or capturing mechanism.
      • a. 1384, John Wyclif, “On Dai of Many Martris [On the Day of Many Martyrs]”, in Thomas Arnold, editor, Select English Works of John Wyclif, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1869, page 223:

        Cunne we wel Goddis lawe, and loke wher Fariseis grounden hem in it; and if þei done not, flee we her sentence as heresie or fendis glewe.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   3. A tar or resin; any natural adherent.

関連する語

• glewen
• glewer
• glewy
• glewysch
• gluynge

派生した語

• English: glue
• Scots: glue

参照

• “gleu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

語源 2

名詞

glew

1. alternative form of gleu

語源 3

動詞

glew

1. alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”)

語源 4

動詞

glew

1. alternative form of glewen (“to glue”)