单词 | gleby |
释义 | gleby, a. ? Obs.|ˈgliːbɪ| Also 6 glebie, -ye, 7 gleaby. [f. glebe n. + -y1.] Of soil: Full of clods; rich, fertile.
1566Drant Horace's Sat. i. ii. A viij b, A landed man..Whose medowes fayre, and glebye groundes Revenues ample yeeldes. c1611Chapman Iliad iii. 81 You dwelling safe in gleby Troy, the Greeks retire their force, T' Achaia. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxvi. 156 Her Banks, which all her course on both sides do abound With Heath and Finny olds, and often gleaby ground. 1718Prior Solomon i. 696 Pernicious flatt'ry! Thy malignant Seeds..Sadly diffus'd o'er Virtue's Gleby Land, With rising Pride amidst the Corn appear. 1794Gentl. Mag. II. 1132 Summer's gleby covert breaks. 1833O'Brien tr. Villanueva's Phoenic. Irel. xv. (1837) 161 In that language bolun means a glebe or gleby land. |

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