MDMD(8) Questions

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     Isn't "glaur" how Woolf spells "gloire" in "Orlando?" Meaning, glory, 
     empire, glorious French colonialism, what have you.
     
     Back to hibernation now.
     
     Jean


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Subject: Re: MDMD(8) Questions
Author:  Sojourner <sojourner at vt.edu> at Internet_tco
Date:    9/12/97 9:25 AM


At 08:47 AM 9/12/97 EDT, Christine Karatnytsky wrote:
     
>229.3 `glaur' as mentioned in MDMD(7)  Meaning ???  (AD) 
>
     
>From the Oh Eee Dee:
     
glaur, glave, vars. glar, glaive
     
glaive gleiv, sb. Also 3-6 gleyve, (6 gleive, glieve), 4-6, 9 dial. gleve, 
6-7, 9 dial. gleave, 9 dial. gleeve; 4
gla(y)fe, 4-6 glayve, (6 Sc. glaif), 5-7 glave. [a. OFr. glaive, gleive 
lance (mod.Fr. glaive poet. = sword).
Hatz-Darm. regard OFr. glaive as an adapted form of L. gladius (through the 
stages gladie, glaie, glavie). Ascoli
supposes it to represent a Celtic *cladivo- (OIr. claideb sword, Gael. 
claidheamh). Neither view, however,
accounts for the earliest meaning of the word in OFr. , which is also that 
of MHG. glavîe, glævîn, MDutch glavie,
glaye, Sw. glaven. ] A name given at different periods to three distinct 
kinds of weapons, viz. lance, bill, and sword.
The second of these senses seems to be peculiar to English, the others are 
derived from French; in a large number of
passages it is impossible to determine from the context which weapon is 
intended, esp. in the case of later writers.
     
or
     
glar, glaur glar, glor, , sb. Sc. and north. dial. Also glair, gloar. [Of 
unknown origin; cf. next vb. and ONor.
leir mud.] Slime, mud.