10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLIB ICE»
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Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English
[From northern Irish and Scottish and northern English] SND 1725-1924; OED;
EDD; Wy EDSL. glib Adjective, usually in phrase glib ice. Also glebe, glibby.
Common generally, but occasional under thirty. Compare black ice. Of a surface
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Or seeking bright glib ice, to play, And slide the wintry hours away, CLARE Slit-[1.
Calendar (1827. 3; thJ, Hnt. t_T.P.F.) Suf.An oak floor, so nicely glib (C.G.B.).
Hence (1) Glibbed, [if]. adj. smooth, polished, slippery; (2) Glibber, aufj. worn ...
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Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases, with ...
Or seeking bright glib ice, to play, And slide the wintry hours away. Clare's Shep.
Cal. p. 3. And smooth as glass the glibbed pool is froze. Clare's Village Minstrel,
vol. ii. p. 22. M.s. C.C. t.G. H.A.D. H.P. GLIDE. A slide. Probably from A.-Sax. glid,
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Anne Elizabeth Baker,
1854
4
The
Ice Bridge: A Novel
Hillswould steepen, he wouldn'tsee thehanging branch, thefloodedrut, the glib
ice. You had tolook into the mirror now and then, see whatwas rough there. Ifyou
hada womanwho cared. He hadbeendifficult at times, he knew that,but hehad ...
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The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes
Anyone who crossed the Mere might skate for half a mile or so over a hard
smooth surface, known in the country as 'glib' ice ; he might next traverse ice
frozen where a stiff breeze had ruffled the water, and he would have to struggle
as he best ...
Anyone who crossed the Mere might skate for half a mile or so over a hard
smooth surface, known in the country as ' glib ' ice ; he might next traverse ice
frozen where a stiff breeze had ruffled the water, and he would have to struggle
as he ...
J.M. Heathcote & C.G. Tebbutt,
1892
Anyone who crossed the Mere might skate for half a mile or so over a hard
smooth surface, known in the country as ' glib ' ice ; he might next traverse ice
frozen where a stiff breeze had ruffled the water, and he would have to struggle
as he ...
John Moyer Heathcote, C. G. Tebbutt, T. Maxwell Witham,
1892
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A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English
That is slippery, or glib, ice. Выдан. Yea, aye. Нута yd da, here is goodcnm; ai е
вы iait ю'а е? `I'aineth, n. as. (il) cinese, the state of being icy. шт, с. (ih) 0f an icy
nature, like ice. Iiiain, a. (il) Abonndin with ice, like ice. lach, #JZ-pl. t. au (ac ) A ...
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Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
m. r. That is slippery, or glib, ice. Ia, adv. Yes, aye. Dymayd da, here is good corn;
ai e tat is it so aye? Iäaetb, s. m. (iâ) Iciness, the state of being icy. läaidd, a. (iâ)
Of an icy nature, like ice. Iiiain, a. (iâ) Abounding with ice, like ice. lach, s. f. — pl.
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A literal translation of the twenty-first book of Livy [with ...
Here then the struggle to get forward was dreadful, as well on account of the glib
ice not admitting the footstep, as from the foot itself slipping more easily on
shelving ground, and although they in getting up again assisted themselves with
their ...
Titus Livius, Arnold Drakenborch,
1824