Gleow

Old English Dictionary Entry

Gleow

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: gleó, gliw, glig, es; Related words: Grm. D. M, 854. [

Definitions

1 gleow

n. GLEE, joy, music, musical accompaniment of a song, mirth, jesting, sport; gaudium, musica, facetiæ, mimus, ludibrium :-- Ðǽr wæs gidd and gleó there was song and glee [music], Beo. Th. 4216; B. 2105. And gegaderade, gleowe sungon, on ðæra manna midle geongra, on tympanis, togenum strengum conjuncti psallentibus, in medio juvenum tympanistriarum, Ps. Th. 67, 24: Cot. 84. O. Nrs. glý; n. lætitia, gaudium.]

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