单词 | gleet |
释义 | gleetn. 1. Slimy matter; sticky or greasy filth. Also figurative. Obsolete exc. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > slime slimea1000 gleet1340 slobber1440 ook1969 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 459 Thar [in the womb] duellid man in a myrk dungeon..Whar he had na other fode Bot wlatsom glet, and loper blode, And stynk and fylthe. a1400–50 Alexander 4516 Þus ilk cantell of ȝour cors ȝe call þam driȝtins..Of ilk gobet of þat glett ȝe a god make. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1059 Þat foysoun flode..swange þurȝ vch a strete, With-outen fylþe oþer galle oþer glet. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 269 He [Jonah] glydez in by þe giles, þurȝ glaymande [? read glaym and] glette. 1483 Cath. Angl. 158/2 Glett, viscositas. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Glitt, oily matter, which makes the stones of brooks slippery in summer. 1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 123 The stream is almost shrunk Down to the green gleet of its slippery stones. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xi. 100 The night dew had left a sticky ‘glet’ on the face and hands. 2. Phlegm collected in the stomach, esp. of a hawk. (So Old French glette.) Obsolete exc. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > phlegm collected in stomach gleeta1340 glut1611 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [noun] > in stomach gleeta1340 glut1611 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > digestive organs of gleeta1340 gorgec1450 panela1475 glut1611 quid1834 a1340 R. Rolle Cant. in Psalter 512 Haly mennys affecciouns ere as of hertis [L. quasi cervorum] þat..kastis out of þaire hert all glet [in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 32 al vile glat [v.r. glet] þat stoppiþ her breeþ]. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C v b If she [a hawk] holde not her mete bot cast it that is tokyn of the foule glet. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Pref. Verse sig. B.ijv By cunning skill to cause hir cast such glit, as breedes hir skath. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 239/1 Glyte or Glut is a slimy substance in the Pannel or Belly of the Hawk. 1808–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Glit, tough phlegm, that especially which gathers in the stomach when it is foul. 3. a. A morbid discharge of thin liquid from a wound, ulcer, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter yousterc725 screevinga1400 gotour14.. mattering?c1450 gleet1535 ichor1651 discharge1678 gleeting1684 pyorrhoea1787 lymph1800 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 444 The oftar ay that plastrit be the wound, With greedie glit far mair it dois abound. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 154 I found the applications on the Wound very wet with a serous Humor, commonly called a Gleet. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Glitt or Gleet, a thin matter issuing out of Wounds and Ulcers; especially when the nervous or sinewy Parts are bruis'd and hurt. 1714 R. Russell in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 276 But upon having a Discharge from..her Breast, of a thin Gleet, all Symptoms vanished. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 320 A discharge of a fetid gleet from the membranes or brain. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 261 Some strange..stories have been told of gleet from the nose, giddiness, and inflammation of the brain having been produced by them [bots in sheep]. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 176 When The fiery fever..Had shrivelled up their wretched limbs, again O'erflowed a liquid gleet. b. spec. A morbid discharge from the urethra. ΚΠ 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 125 Old Gleets, that proceed more from Debility than any Malignity. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 425 I imagine..that the internal surface of a fistulous ulcer is in some degree similar to the inner surface of the urethra, when it is forming the discharge commonly called a gleet. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 166 Gleet may..be the result of some stricture, or local urethral disease, such as an ulcer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gleetv.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)] > discharge putrid matter > of matter: flow wellc1330 gleet1527 matter1635 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in small quantity > slowly or through pore-like openings > out > like pus or morbid discharge gleet1527 suppurate1693 1527 [see gleeting n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 80 Very good to cure wounds in ioints, where the ioint water gleteeth out. 1691 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 471 The Water presently precipitates, gleeting down by the Crannies of the Stone. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 584 The Cavities of the Rocks are filled up with the Rills that gleet from the Hills. 1726 P. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 389 The Desquammation was very slow, the black Crust adhering several Days, nay Weeks..while abundance of purulent Matter gleeted from under them. 2. Of the body or its parts: To discharge a thin purulent matter. Also quasi-transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)] > discharge putrid matter matterc1465 screevea1500 gleet1676 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xi. 57 His Thumb being inflamed..I made Incision into it to the Bone: this not onely bled, but gleeted a few drops. 1706 W. Oliver in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2180 It made his Nose run and gleet. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery viii. 74 He [a horse] gleets often at the nose. 1785 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 510 A prodigious fungus, which..gleeted largely, and at times bled profusely. 1812 Examiner 4 May 287/1 Making the sleeper's nose run and gleet. Derivatives ˈgleeting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > discharge of putrid matter gleeting1527 running1535 mattering1547 sordid1597 sordidous1608 ichorous1651 ichorose1710 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter yousterc725 screevinga1400 gotour14.. mattering?c1450 gleet1535 ichor1651 discharge1678 gleeting1684 pyorrhoea1787 lymph1800 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Qjv The same water with cotton warme layd in the woundes stoppeth the glyttynge water betwene the joyntes. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 60 Used by Chirurgians to dry gleeting sores. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 5 This gleeting or dripping continues so long as till the hole in the coat be cured. 1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 369 Running at the Eyes, and gleeting at the Nostrils, are Signs of a Cold. 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