Glib (?), a. [Compar. Glibber (?); superl. Glibbest (?).] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.]
1.
Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
[Obs.]
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.
Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
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Glib, v. t.
To make glib.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
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Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
[Obs.]
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.
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Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.]
To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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