See Also: Finn, Huckleberry(dictionary)
Huckleberry Finn(dictionary)
huckleberry(dictionary)
Huckleberry(medicine)
huckleberry(encyclopedia)
huckleberry(dictionary)
Finn(dictionary)
Finn MacCumhaill(encyclopedia)
Mickey Finn(dictionary)
Finn McCool's(tourism)

glair (iou) and Finn, Huckleberry (oh)


glair (iou)



glair noun & verb. As noun also (earlier) glaire. ME.
[Old & mod. French glaire from medieval Latin glarea from var. of medieval Latin use as noun of Latin clarus clear.]
A. noun.
The white of an egg, esp. as used in various preparations; spec. in Bookbinding, an adhesive made from this applied before blocking or tooling in gold leaf. ME.
Any slimy viscous substance resembling egg-white. E16.
b. verb trans. Orig., paint, daub. Later, smear with glair. M16.
glaireous adjective of the Nature of glair; slimy, viscous: M17.
glairy adjective (freq. in Medicine) = glaireous M17.

Finn, Huckleberry (oh)



also Huck Finn
a character in the books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by the 19th century US writer Mark Twain . Huckleberry Finn is a very independent young boy who runs away from his father with his friend Jim, who is a black slave who has also run away.
-see also Sawyer, Tom