glib

a. [ Compar. Glibber superl. Glibbest ] [ Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not. Shak.

Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make glib. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair. ] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben. ] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Slippery; changeable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moving easily; nimble; voluble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy lubrical and glibbery muse. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly. [ 1913 Webster ]