different between glew vs alew

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English glew, glu, etc.

Noun

glew (countable and uncountable, plural glews)

1. Obsolete form of glue.
   • 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1 (page 385)

     When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew […]

Etymology 2

Formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow). Probably not from Early Middle English glew (“glowed”) or its ancestor Old English gl?ow (“glowed”), due to the long gap in attestation.

Verb

glew

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of glow

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu, from Late Latin gl?s, from Latin gl?ten, from Proto-Italic *gloiten.

Alternative forms

• glu, glue, glewe, gleu, glowe, glyw, glyu, gleuwe, gluwe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?liu?/

Noun

glew (plural glewes)

2. A adhesive or adherent; something that binds:
   1. glue; a substance designed to adhere two things together.
   2. birdlime; a trap or capturing mechanism.
   3. A tar or resin; any natural adherent.

Related terms

• glewen
• glewer
• glewy
• glewysch
• gluynge

Descendants

• English: glue
• Scots: glue

References

• “gleu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-1.

Etymology 2

Noun

glew

2. Alternative form of gleu.

Etymology 3

Verb

glew

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

Etymology 4

Verb

glew

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?u?/

Adjective

glew (feminine singular glew, plural glewion, equative glewed, comparative glewach, superlative glewaf)

1. brave, bold

Synonyms

• (brave): gwrol, dewr

Mutation

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare halloo.

Noun

alew (plural alews)

1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:

     Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.

Anagrams

• e-law, lawe, wale, weal

Gothic

Romanization

alew

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