Admin Post: Word of the Day .... gleed gleed noun Archaic. a glowing coal. Citations Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysies cutty-pipe, replied Caleb. -- Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor , 1819 I saw her pale lips move—a spell of warding, I suppose, for she neither winced nor withdrew her hand from the burning gleed. -- Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove , 1993
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