gleby

gleby

English

Etymology

Compare Latin glaebosus (“cloddy”).

Adjective

gleby (comparative more gleby, superlative most gleby)

1. Relating to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
   • Matthew Prior

     Pernicious flattery! thy malignant seeds
     In an ill hour, and by fatal hand
     Sadly diffus'd o'er virtue's gleby land,
     With rising pride amidst the corn appear,
     And choke the hopes and harvest of the year.

Synonyms

• glebous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gleby in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.bɨ/

Noun

gleby

1. inflection of gleba:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative, accusative, and vocative plural