I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.
puhekieltä To make glib.
1628, w:Joseph Hall (bishop)|Joseph Hall, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.
1671, (w), (w), Book 1, lines 371-6, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58/pg58-images.html
And, when to all his Angels he proposed
To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud,
That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring,
I undertook that office, and the tongues
Of all his flattering prophets glibbed with lies
To his destruction, as I had in charge:
1730, Edward Strother, w:John Radcliffe (physician)|Dr. Radcliffe’s Practical Dispensatory, London: C. Rivington, p. 342, https://books.google.ca/books?id=OIphAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
They are good internally in Fits of the Stone in the Kidneys, by glibbing the Ureters, and making even a large Stone pass with ease (..)
We were having one of our bitterest cold snaps. Wind due north, shrieking over stiff land; two feet of snow, all substances glibbed with ice and granite-hard.
puhekieltä A mass of mattedhair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.
1596, (w), The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not ….
Spenser
The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.