Meaning

(obsolete, except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
2. (obsolete, except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance.
3. (vulgar, slang) A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhea.
4. To ooze, as gleet (noun sense); to flow in a thin, limpid humour.
5. Of water: to flow slowly.

Example Sentences

There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.

The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins.

[U]pon dilating a ſmall gleeting hole about three inches above the knee, on the outside of the thigh; and introducing a jointed or ſcrew probe, I found the bone carious to ſuch a height and withal the patient ſo emaciated with the tedious diſcharge, and a hectic fever that I diſſuaded attempting the operation […]

[Water vapour bubbles] hit againſt the ſides of the more eminent and Mountainous Places, of the Globe, and by this Concuſſion are condenſed, and thus become heavier than the Air they ſvvom in, and ſo gleet dovvn the rocky Caverns of theſe Mountains, […]

Word Forms

• glit
• gleets
• gleeting
• gleeted

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