See Also: glebe(dictionary)
GLEBE, eccl(law)

glebe (iou)



glebe noun. [gli:b] LME.
[Latin gleba, glaeba clod, land, soil.]
The soil of the earth; earth, land. Now poet. LME.
T. Campbell The glebe of fifty kingdoms shall be till'd To feed his..train.
A piece of cultivated land, a field. Now poet. LME.
Tennyson Many an..upland glebe wealthy in oil and wine.
b. spec. A piece of land assigned as part of a parish clergyman's living. LME.
W. Cobbett This parish..has a glebe, and a good solid house.
A clod or mass of earth, ore, etc.; an earthy mineral. E16-M18.
T. Amory The glittering glebes of a gold colour found here.
Comb.: glebe-house (now rare or obsolete) a parsonage; glebe-land = sense 2b above.
gleby adjective (now rare or obsolete) (of soil) rich, fertile, full of clods M16.