See Also: geoid(dictionary)

glebe (iou) and geoid (iou)


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.

geoid (iou)



geoid noun. L19.
[Greek geoeides adjective, earthlike, from GEO-: see -OID.]
The earth's figure; a hypothetical solid figure the surface of which corresponds to mean sea level (and its imagined extension under land) and is perpendicular to the direction of gravity at all points.
ge'oidal adjective L19.