Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or resembling gleet; ichorous; thin; limpid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ichorous; thin; limpid.
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- adjective
ichorous ;thin ;limpid
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Examples
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A gleety discharge from the urethra may also be frequently discovered, especially if the patient examine when at stool or after urinating.
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A gleety discharge from the urethra may also be frequently discovered, especially if the patient examine when at stool or after urinating.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Such a contraction is usually sufficient to maintain a gleety discharge, and a chronic irritability which is likely to result in early loss of sexual vigor, or some other form of sexual disorder.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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It is not less so with reference to nervous debility, involuntary vital losses, with which so many young and middle-aged men are afflicted; and we may also include in this list epilepsy or fits, paralysis or palsy, obstinate gleety discharges, and many other chronic and delicate ailments of which our staff of physicians and surgeons cure annually many thousands of cases, but _for which we do not recommend_ any of our put-up, ready-made, or proprietary medicines.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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