Definition of "glew" [glew]

• Obsolete form of glue. (noun)

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• "I am told on philological authority that 'glew' may stand for 'glow'."
• "The 1681 edition reads 'glew', which I have with other editions altered to 'dew'."
• "My own view is that if 'glew' be the right reading, it stands for 'glue' as in 'cherry-tree glue', 'plum-tree glue', and that Marvell thought of the dew as an exhalation:"