Definitions for gleet

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Spelling: [gleet]
IPA: /glit/

Gleet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in gleet (eeglt).

Definitions for gleet

noun

  1. Pathology. a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound. persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
  2. Also called nasal gleet. Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.

Origin of gleet

1300-50; Middle English glete Middle French glete, Old French glette Latin glittus sticky

Examples for gleet

In gleet the discharges from the nostrils, as in ozena, are of a very light color.

Neglected gleet often causes stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and keeps up a gleet.

In gleet, &c., and in affections of the mucous membranes of the throat and fauces.

She was aware of my disease, which by that time had become a gleet and did not inconvenience me in any way.

This condition—chronic gonorrhea—is commonly known as "gleet."

gleet or obstinate milky discharge or oozing of from two to twelve years standing yielded painlessly and permanently to their use.

Word Value for gleet
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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