I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.

Shak.

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

Glib, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] 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.

Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live,

LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.

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