See glew in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "glew"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English variant lemmas",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Chemistry"
],
"etymology_number": "4",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"var": "1"
},
"expansion": "glew",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "to glue",
"word": "glewen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of glewen (“to glue”)"
],
"links": [
[
"glewen",
"glewen#Middle_English:_to_glue"
]
],
"senseid": [
"enm:to glue"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "glew"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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