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Rh gloks,, see ,

glom [glōm (glō$ə$m)],, 1) a white stripe, down the face of cattle (cows, sheep); a white g. doon [‘down’] deface. ;  2) a faint light; dull gleam, : a) moonlight; b) a low fire, the light from a fire half burnt out or from red-hot embers, “hit [‘it’] is just a g.”. 3) de g.: the fishermen’s tabu-name, sea-term, for the moon; ; also “de [glōmər].” More rarely ( and ) as a tabu-name for a lamp (an open train-oil lamp, ). — glámr,,  a dull gleam or light, in poetry: the moon (Eg.);  gláma, , whiteness. — -er in  is  an  -r (the suffixed r of the gender), 1 is most an  *gláma, ;    glaama,, a bluish spot on the skin. —  with a short o [glom], the evening twilight, “de g. o’ de eenin’ [‘evening’]”, recorded in , may just as well be  gloom,

glom$1$ [glōm, glō$ə$m],, 1) to grasp; to gather (in a heap), to g. togedder, to g. op; to g. op taatis [‘potatoes’], to take up potatoes, soiling oneself in so doing. 2) to scrape off (lightly), of slightly washed face and hands; du’s only aff o’ de face, you have not washed your face properly. 3) to smear all over with dirt; mostly in, besmeared, soiled; his face was  wi’ dirt . 4) in the  “to g. a fremd”, a) to take a coalfish off the hook, tabu-term, sea-term, used by fishermen; b) to pick the head ofoff [sic] a coalfish (tabu-). — the same word as $1$,, to grasp; grip; rake, with a similar change of gr to gl as  >. however glaum,, to grasp feebly; to fumble. Meaning 3 has been confounded with the root *gróm-; grómr, , and gróm,, dirt; filth; see $2$,

glom$2$,, see ,

Gloma [glōma],, reported as the name for a hen. . the same word as glaama,, a woman with staring eyes, and bony, drawn, hollow-cheeked face.

glomek$1$ [glōmək],, a white or light stripe down the face of an animal, of cows and sheep (of horses usually:  and, $2$). the same word as, 1.

glomek$2$ [glōmək, glō$ə$mək],, 1) a paw; large hand; de , the hands, in joke or derision. 2) a dirty hand.,  of $1$,   the relation between grabb,, grab, , a coarse hand, and grabba, grabbe,, to grasp roughly with the whole hand.

glomer [glōmər (glō$ə$mər)],, = , 3.

glomet$1$ [glōmət, glō$ə$mət], , 1) having a white, vertical stripe or spot on the face, of cows and sheep: a g. coo, a g. sheep; also of horses ( in ),  = and, . 2) of sheep: white and grey, mixed in various shades, a g. sheep; in in which the prevailing colour is denoted by a prefixed adjective: light-g., grey-g., dark-g., black-g.. 3) a) pale, sickly-looking, g.-faced ; having a pale, thin face; b) having a long, sad face, g.-lookin’ . — *glámóttr, of *glám-, white colour; a dull light or gleam; see,  glámóttur, , = glámblesóttur, white-blazed, of a horse;  glaamen (and glaamutt),, pale; sickly-looking, with staring eyes, and drawn, hollow-cheeked face; glåmug, glåmut, , also sad-looking, pale and gaunt.

glomet$2$ [glōmət],, dirty,