Glib — Defs

01 a. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

1.
Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.[Obs.]
2.
Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
“I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.” — Shak.

Syn. Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

02 v. t. To make glib.

03 n. A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

1.
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.[Obs.]
“The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.” — Spenser.

“Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.” — Southey.

04 v. t. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.