Glib

Definition of Glib

Pronunciation: glĭb
a.1.
1.Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
2.Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not.
- Shak.
v. t.1.To make glib.
n.1.A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
- Spenser.
Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.
- Southey.
v. t.1.To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

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