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English
Etymology
From gleet + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gleety (comparative more gleety, superlative most gleety)
- ichorous; thin; limpid
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R Royston , and B Took, , →OCLC:the Flesh within the Ulcer was livid, and in some parts of a blackish colour , and discharged a gleety Matter
References
“gleety”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.