, -aighe, a., grasping, forked; fist-like; big-pawed.

, -ctha and -cuighthe, m., act of taking, receiving; an acceptance; acceptation; a grasp.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a repository.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a receiver, a catcher.

, -adh, v. tr., I take, receive, grasp, seize, take hold of, catch (disease, etc.), conceive; undertake; aithreachas do ghlacadh, to repent; comhairle do gh., to take counsel; meisneach do gh., to take courage; bíodhgadh do gh., to start with fright; g. le, I accept.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a catcher, a taker, an apprehender.

, -a, f., handling, touching, pawing, groping, feeling, catching.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a little fist; a fork's prong; a small fistful (dim. of glac, as is also glaicín).

, -aighe, a., stout-handed, valiant (O'Ra.).

, -aigh, pl. id., m., a handful, a fistful; a small bundle held in one's arms.

, p. a., caught, seized, apprehended, taken, received (also glacuighthe).

, -a, f., feeling, the sense of feeling.

, -aigh, -aighe, m., a large bright fire (Clare).

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a noisy babbler, a prater.

, -a, f., noisy babbling.

, -aigh, m., noise, din, prattle; a jargon; an glafarnach námhad sain, that jargon of the enemy, i.e. English (E. R.) (glafairne, id.).

, -aig, m., clocking, noise, clamour, prate.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a babbler, a foolish prater (also glaigín).

, -a, f., foolish or impertinent talk; garrulity, boasting.

, -áin, pl. id., m., the clapper of a mill; g. dorais, the knocker of a door.

, a foolish, nonsensical talker (Meath).

, -aighe, f., act of cackling (as a hen); a cackling noise.

, -adh, v. intr., I chatter, babble, prate.

, -e, f., dirty water, mud, puddle; a sink. See láib.

, -e, -idhe, f., a hollow place (Der.). See glac.

, g. id., pl. -nidhe, m., a small handful, a little bundle, a faggot; fetters for sheep, etc.

, m., a manual.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a glutton.

, -nighe, a., gluttonous

, -a, f., gluttony.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a silly, talkative fellow.

, g. -e, pl. -eacha and -eanna, f., censure; a pitiful complaint; a great noise, a yelling. See <<gláimh>>.

, -e, -eacha, f., a censure, a bad report; a murmur, a complaint, a satire. See gláim.

, m., a gluttonous raven or cormorant; a glutton.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a glutton; a spendthrift.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a noisy little fellow.

, -nigh, m., a chatterer. See glaimin.

, -nigh, pl. id., m., a glutton, a spendthrift; a family nickname, na Gláimhínigh.

, -a, f., uproar, clamour.

, g. id., f., purity, cleanliness, brightness; glaineacht, id.

, -aighe, a., of clear knowledge, perspicacious.

, -laicthe, pl. id., m., a pure gift or offering.

, g. id., f., greenness, viridity, an azure hue; brightness, lustre (of the eye); greyness; comp. of glas, green, etc.

, g. id., pl. -sidhe, f., a rivulet; fionn-ghlaise, a fair or bright stream.

, -sighe, -seacha, f., a quagmire (Don.).

, -léithe, a., greyish.

, -nigh, m., a large bird found in winter (Con.).

, g. glaim, pl. -aidhe, m., a piece of wood fastened to an oar or paddle; it contains a hole for the thole-pin (cnoga); sometimes glamba or clampa (West Coast).

, -a, -anna, m., a shout, a yell, a bark, a howl, a loud complaining noise; a snatch, a clutch.

, -áimh, m., a scold; a satirist; a murmurer.

, -mhadh, v. tr., I devour, eat up.

, -adh, v. tr., I bawl, roar, cry out.

, -adh, I pull about, maul (N. Con.).

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, a prattler, a complainer, a howler.

, -a, f., gluttony.

, g. id., pl. -nidhe, m., gnashing of the teeth.

, -e, f., howling, screaming; the loose howling of a pack of hounds, as opposed to geoin, a concerted howl.

, -aisc, pl. id., m., anything that makes an ugly, cackling noise.

, -áin, m., grumbling; act of grumbling (Clare); glamhas, id. Prop. clamhsán.

, gsf. glaine, gloine, a., clean, pure, clear, sincere, innocent, bright, white; ad. use, completely, as scriosta glan, completely ruined; traochta glan, quite exhausted; marbh glan, quite dead.

(clean, bright), intensive prefix: glan-fhuar, -fhuaire, clear cold, very cold; glan-luath, -luaithe, very swift.

, -nta, m., act of cleaning, purifying, weeding, etc.; a lámha do ghlanadh as, to wash his hands of it; glanadh an choinnleora, as much as would clean a candlestick, with neg., nothing; the afterbirth of a beast; a sworn denial of a charge. See <<glanaim>>.

, -óra, -óiridhe m., a fuller, a cleanser, a purifier, a weeder.

, -adh, v. tr. and intr., I clean, purify, cleanse, clear; glan tú féin ó, clear yourself (of a charge); intr., I go away, clear out; glan as mo radharc, leave my sight; é ghlanadh, to clear off his bill, to pay him in full; glan as ar líontaibh, clear out of our way; I weed.

, -mhla, a., cleansing.

, -a, f., grace, beauty, comeliness.

, -ais, m., cleanness, brightness.

, m., a good head of hair.

, -a, f., good will, zeal.

, -ghile, a., pure, white, perfectly clean.

, -ail, pl. id., m., a clean garment, cloak.

, -naoimh, pl. id., m., a pure saint.

, -aighe, a., clearsighted.

, indec. a., mysterious.

, p. a., cleansed, purified.

, -a, f., purity, cleanliness.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a purifier, a cleanser, a weeder; in pl., -óiridhe, snuffers.

, -a, f., purging, cleansing, purifying.

-tuighthe, m., purification; act of cleansing.

, -air, pl. id., m., a refined author.

, m., pure water (Kea.), more gen. uisce glan.

, -oidh, m., a shout, a call; a cry, a roar; codladh idir dhá ghlaodh, sleep between two wakening calls.

, -dhaigh, m., act of calling, shouting, a roar, a shout, etc.; demand (in the mercantile sense); a call, a visit; blaodhach (Con.). See glaodhaim.

, vl. glaodhach, glaodh, v. intr. and tr., I call, cry, shout, cry out, crow (of cocks); ainm do ghlaodhach ar, to give a name to.

, -aighe, f., a shouting, calling, hooting.

, -e, f., glue (O'N.).

, -tighe, a., calling, inviting, attractive.

, -air, m., a noise, a babbling.

, g. glais, pl. id., -asa and -aiseanna (poet.), m., a lock, a fetter, a bolt, a hold; i nglasaibh, in bonds; an glas do chur ar an dorus, to lock the door; an glas do bhaint de'n dorus, to unlock the door; fá ghlas, locked up; glas Béarla, an injunction to speak only English (S. O'N.).

, glaise, a., green, verdant (as grass); grey (as a horse or cloth); grey, bright, lustrous (of the eye); cold, inclement: lá glas, a rough, cold day; glas-aimsear, rough weather; bluish grey, as the sky; glas caorach, of natural colour, undyed (as wool).

, -adh, v. tr., I lock (O'N.).

See lasair coille.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a lock-maker, a lock-picker, or turnkey.

See <<lasair léana>>.

, -áin, pl. id., m., the fish called whiting; a salad; watercress; a sort of edible seaweed; oyster-grass or sea-liverwort; also the dawn.

: glasán darach, a green finch; glasán linne, a grey linnet; glasán salaighe, a willow wagtail or water-wagtail (Sh.).

, -áine, a., pale green, wan.

, -nta, m., act of growing deadly pale.

, -adh, v. intr., I grow deadly pale.

, very green grass, through which water generally runs (Der.); the grass which produces the best milk; cf. an Ghlas Ghaibhninn, a celebrated cow which never could be fully milked; cf. legend of Balor Béimeann in Four Masters, Vol. I.; also Glas Ghaibhneach, cf. chodail an Ghlas Ghaibhneach ann (said of rich land) (Ker.).

, f., a pale or grey stripper (this colour betokens a large yield of milk). See <<glas-ghaibhlinn>>.

, -ghuirme, a., of an azure or pale blue; as subs., an azure or pale blue colour.

, m., a green field.

m. and f., a green, plain.

, -thighe, f., a pale green colour.

, -mhara, f., the green sea.

, -uidhre, a., pale green.

, -óige, -óga, f., a whiting; a kind of salmon.

, f., the water wag-tail; súil na glasóige, "sheep's eyes." See <<glasán>>.

, -e, f., verdure, greens, glasruighim, -ughadh, v. tr., I make green.

, f., a tight or fast indissoluble knot or binding.

, indec. a., verdure-green; as subs., the verdure-green colour; in Con., glas-uain.

, -a, f., verdure, greenness; act of colouring or dyeing green.

, -ughadh, v. intr. and tr., I become green; I colour green.

, indec. a., clear, bright, pure, perfect; open, plain, manifest.

an intensive prefix, very, enough, truly, perfect (chiefly Sc.).

, -aighe, a., struggling, striving, combating.

, -a, f., strife, contention; also buffoonery, trickery, cuteness.

, -cadh and gleic, v. intr., I wrestle, struggle.

, -a, f., brightness, clearness.

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, m., a combatant; a wrestler; also a buffoon; a trickster, an impostor; seachain an gleacuidhe milis sleamhain 's an teanga liom leat, beware of the sweet crafty trickster and the obsequious tongue.

, -cadh, v. intr., I combat, I fight.

, -aine, a., pure, clean, gleamhaisc, -e, f., grinding noise of the teeth in anger.

, g. id., f., neatness, beauty.

, -sighe, a., beautiful.

, a., very good; go gléamhaith, very well.

, -a, -ta (g. also glinn and glinne), m., a valley, a glen; tá me ag dul síos an gleann, I am going down the hill (Meath).

, -aighe, a., full of valleys or glens.

, a., having deep-set eyes.

, -mhla, a., steep, shelving.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a small glen.

, -aighe, a., splendidly blazing; teine ghléarach, a glaring fire (P. O'C.).

, -aighe, a., making loud noise, obstreperous; pugnacious (Con.).

, m., a beating (Con., Don.); drumaidhe dá ngleáradh, drums beating (Don.).

, -éis, pl. id. and gléiseanna, m., a manner or condition; a custom, fashion, method or means; preparation, order, trim; harness; an instrument or machine; the key in music; the lock of a gun; furniture; ar ghléas eile, by other means; ar ghléas, so that, insomuch that; gléas marbhtha, a murderous weapon; gléas tórraimh, funeral preparations; pl. gléiseanna, novelties, luxuries for a feast; gléas na Nodlag, Christmas requisites; gléas ceoii, musical instruments, anything that produces musical notes; goidé 'n gléas a bhfuil tú? goidé 'n gléas atá ort? how are you? (Sligo); goidé 'n gléasa ndeárna tú é? how did you do it? (Sligo).

, -sta, m., act of harnessing, dressing, preparing. See gléasaim.

, -óra, -óiridhe m., an engineer; a harness-maker.

, -adh, v. tr., I harness, I dress, prepare, trim, set in order, put in tune; I bundle up; a bháis, ó ghléasais leat fá d'oscail é, death, since thou didst bundle him away with thee under thy arm (McC).; I design, as on canvas (E. R.); gléas dom mo ghearrán, harness my nag for me (song).

, -áin, pl. id., m., a dresser or dress-board.

, -ainne, -anna, f., a vestry or ward-room; a dress-room, a kitchen (P. O'C.).

, -aire, a., orderly, regular.

, -a, f., neatness, preparedness, order.

, -ghile, a., very bright, clear, white, beautiful (also gléigeal and glégeal).

, -a, f., pureness, whiteness.

, -e, f., a wrestling, a contending, a struggle, a contest; act of contending, struggling (gleicht, id.).

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a wrestler, a combatant.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a long, thin person (often applied to fishes, M., also to sharp-edged instruments, as gleidire speile, gleidire sceine, meaning a formidable-looking scythe, knife, etc.).

, -nighe, a., clear, plain, distinct; chím go gléineach é, I see it distinctly.

, -e, a., neat, clean, fair, clear, bright.

, -e, a., eligible, preferable.

, g. id., f., much, plenty, a great deal; also choice, selection; select troops; g. laoich, a choice or chosen hero.

, -áine, a., prepared, arranged, finished.

, g. id., f., purity, cleanness, neatness.

, -áin, m., act of fumbling about; a violent, bustling hurry (also gleatharán and greithealán).

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, a fumbler, a lounger.

, f., clear intellect.

, g. gliadh, d. gliaidh, pl. gliadha, m., strife, battle, fight, tumult, noise; tá gleo mór aca, they are making a great noise.

, f., press of battle (Fer.).

, -aighe, a., noisy, quarrelsome; mournful.

, m., a fighting man (Fer.); cf. gleo-Mhars. Mars of the battles (Id.).

, -seadh, v. intr., I chatter, babble.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a chatterer, a babbler.

, indec. a., ready for fight; spruce, tight.

, indec. a., pretty, neat, charming, delightful, handsome.

, -óige, -óga, f., a lark

, -aigh, -aighe, m., a sportsman.

, -áin, m., glue (O'N.).

, -óige, -óga, f., a fishing boat, a yawl (also gleoiteog).

, -sighe, a., of clear understanding.

, -aidh, m., strife, war. See <<gleo>>.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a combatant, a warrior, a dueller; an g. gan ainm, an epithet of the Pretender.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a prattler, a babbler, a prater.

, -air, m., talk, loquacity, gibberish, pertness; chattering of birds; tá gliadar is siansa na n-éan go ciuin, the chattering and melody of the birds is silenced (O'Ra.).

, -aighe, a., loquacious, lively, sprightly, mirthful; agitated, impetuous.

, -e, -eanna, f., a lock of hair; long hair; unkempt locks of hair hanging over the eyes; a person having dishevelled hair (also gliob).

, -bighe, a., full of hair; having long, unkempt, shaggy hair; careless (also gliobach).

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., long hair; a fold or loose tress of hair; a shred of cloth, etc.; an untidy person.

, -e, a., wise, prudent, cunning, ingenious, artful, versatile, capable, expert, dexterous, nimble.

, -e, f., cunning, cleverness; act of playing tricks.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a spancel for the front legs of a cow (Der.); also glaicín.

, -e, f., uproar, noise; prate, babble.

, -gir, pl. id., m., a cricket.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a little bell, any little jingler or tinkler.

, -a, f., jingling, tinkling.

, -a, f., sorcery, wizardry; rothaidhe na g., a bicycle (Con.); g. is a metathesis of geintlidheacht.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a silly person.

, -e, a., pure, clear; manifest, plain, visible; also sharp, keen, shrewd, clear-sighted; duine

, a sharp or shrewd man; glinn-bhreathnuightheach, clear or sharp-sighted.

, -e, -te, f., the firmament, the heavens; d'eiteall sé in nglinntibh an aeir, it flew into the air; the tolling of a bell (O'N.).

, -e, -idhe, f., the frame on which a fishing or measuring line is folded; nom. also glinne, and glionnda in Sligo.

, -mhna, f., act of investigating, examining closely; gazing on fixedly; manifesting; glinnim, I aim (B.).

, -tighe, a., flexible, pliable (O'N.).

, -a, f., flexibility, pliability.

, -aighe, a., hairy; having long bushy hair.

, -óige, -óga, f., a person with loose, long, untidy hair; a filly.

, -aighe, a., having loose, long hair; unkempt, untidy.

, -a, f., capability, aptitude; cunning; prudence, wisdom. See gliocas.

, -ais, m., cunning, craft, ingenuity; prudence; cleverness (also gliceas).

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a prater, a chatterer.

, -a, f., chat, prate, chatter.

, a tinkle, a jingle.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a jingler, a tinkler; a boaster, a prater.

, -a, f., tinkling, jingling, ringing; constant talking or boasting.

, -air, m., vain, empty noise; prattle, boasting; fear gliogair, a boaster; ubh gliogair, an addled egg (also glugar).

, -naighe, f., a jingling, tinkling, or ringing noise (also gliogarsnach).

, -aighe, a., of empty noise; boasting, vain.

, -ughadh, v. intr., I ring, tinkle; prate idly; gliograim, id.

, m., a quagmire (O'N.).

, -aighe, a., slovenly, awkward.

, -aigh, pl. id., m., a lobster; a person with long limbs; gliomóg, f., id.; g. spáineach, a crawfish.

, -óra, -óiridhe m., a lobster-catcher (G. J.).

, -lighe, a., lobster-eyed, pink-eyed; cf. gliomach ar ghéire a dhá shúl (Aonghas na n-Aor). See giom-shúileach.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a frame for winding a fishing line (Con.).

, -ála, f., act of winding a fishing line (Con.).

, -air, m., joy, cheer (Con. and parts of M.). See scleondar.

, -aighe, a., cheerful, joyful (Con.).

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a prattler, a babbler.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a lisper.

, -a, f., affected lisping, gliotóg, -óige, -óga, f., a fishing boat. See <<gleotóg>>.

, g. id., m., glue (A.).

, -aigh pl. id., m., a stupid dolt (this is, of course, only a derived meaning). The epithet caoch is often used in connection with gliúcach, and speakers of English often say, "you blind gliúcach" (Ker.).

, -óige, -óga, f., a thick-witted young person (Don.).

, -aighe, f., creaking (as of old stairs, etc.).

, -aighe, a., slow; gliusta, id.

, -a, f., slowness, tardiness.

(glothar)

, -air, pl. id., m., a rattle or wheezing in the throat.

, -aigh -aighe, m., a difficulty in breathing; the death-rattle in the throat; glochar, id.

See <<glóthach>>.

, asthma (N. Con.).

See <<gliogaire>>, <<gliogaireacht>>, <<gliogar>>.

See <<gliogaire>>, <<gliogaireacht>>, <<gliogar>>.

See <<gliogaire>>, <<gliogaireacht>>, <<gliogar>>.

, -ála, f., a hen's cackling.

, cleanliness. See <<glaine>>.

, g. id., pl. -nidhe, f., glass; a pane of glass; a drinking glass; a glassful; gloine dheallraightheach, shining glass.

, -nighe, a., vitreous.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a glazier.

, -mhla, a., glassy, gloinidhe, indec. a., glass-like, belonging to glass; glazy, bright, clear.

, -iughadh v. tr., I glaze, vitrify; gloinim, id.

, -e, f., glory, fame, renown; glóir dhíomhaoin, vainglory (nom. often glóire).

, -iughadh, v. tr., I glorify; an tan do glóirigheadh Íosa, when Jesus was glorified.

, p. a., filled with pride, conceited, ambitious.

, f., ambition, pride.

, -aighe, a., ambitious, vainglorious.

, -a, f., vainglory, ambition, pride.

, -e, f., a glorious career, triumphal course; pomp, pageantry.

, -mighe, a., pompous, spectacular, triumphal.

, -air, pl. id., m., a muzzle; a device to prevent young animals from sucking; a bridle.

, m., nausea.

, -óir, -órtha, m., sound, noise, voice, speech; pl. glórtha = utterances, words.

, -aighe, a., noisy, turbulent, clamorous; árd-ghlórach, loud-tongued.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a noisy penon, a bawler.

, vl. glór, v. intr., I howl, I make a coarse sound.

-ais, m., young, soft, sappy grass; glóraisín, id. (S. Cork).

, -a, f., glorification.

, -dhaighe, a., with loving voice.

, m., boasting, bragging.

, vl. -dheamh, v. intr., I boast, brag.

, -aire, a., glorious, famous, renowned, celebrated.

, -ughadh, v. tr., I glorify.

, -aighe, f., animal slime, cap. on the approach of parturition or copulation; frog spawn; glanders (somet. glodhach, pl. glóthacha also used).

, -air, m., noise in the throat; glothar im bhrághaid, the death-rattle in my throat (Scan.).

, -a, f., brightness, clearness, neatness; gluaire, id.

, -e, f., a gloss, a commentary; a device, an invention; ag cur gluaise, commenting.

, g. id., f., neatness, primness.

, -sighe, a., affecting, pathetic.

, -a, f., act of moving, travelling; walking, proceeding; movement, motion; bímís ag

, let us set out on our journey.

, -seacht, v. intr., I set out, I start, advance, march, proceed, move on, repair to; I spring from (of family descend.

, -mhíniughadh, v. tr., I comment, expound.

, p. a., moved, provoked. See <<so-ghluaiste>>.

, -aire, a., bright, effulgent, clear, pure.

, indec. a., bright, glorious, effulgent.

(gliog)

, g. gluig and gluga, m., a gurgling noise, a tinkle.

(gliogach)

, -aighe, a., stammering, making a gurgling noise.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a glutton; a boaster. See <<gliogaire>>.

, m., a garter (O'N.).

, -nighe, a., full of knees or knots.

, -nighe, f., the herb milkwort; g. mhór, spotted arsmart (O'N.); g. bheag, common knot-grass; g. dhearg, a weed which frows in dried-up ponds, very bitter to taste; g. dhubh, climbing knot-grass.

, -adh, v. intr., I genuflect.

, -neamhain, v. tr., I beget, generate (as children); also I spring from (of descend; ó'r ghlúin-ghein Domhnall, from whom Domhnall descended (O'Ra.)

, -iughadh, v. tr. and intr., I generate; I am descended from; I separate into branches.

, -ighthe, m., a separating into branches or degrees; descending from, generating.

, g. glúine, d. glúin, pl. glúine and glúna, f., a knee; a generation; a degree, a stop; the joint of a reed; portion of a boat-frame; glún taoibhe, the side-knees of a boat; glún sheasta, the upright knees of a boat; glún ar ghlúin, step by step; ritheann an bitheamhantas seacht nglún', the vice of stealing becomes hereditary to the seventh generation.

, -adh, v. intr., I genuflect; glún-lúbaim, id.

, -aighe, a., bandy-legged

, -btha, m., a genuflection, act of genuflecting.

See <<glothar>>.

, a firm hold (as by a lobster); greim an duine bháidhte, a drowning man's grip; deamhan greim gur ceart tú, upon my word you are a brick (Don.).