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glebe (iou) and polycarboxylate cement (medicine)


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.

polycarboxylate cement (medicine)


polycarboxylate cement
Water-soluble low-molecular-weight polymers of acrylic or methacrylic acid that form solid, insoluble products when mixed with specially prepared zno powder. The resulting cement adheres to dental enamel and is also used as a luting agent.