Searchable Lemmata: glof (OE), glove (ME), glove (AF), gluve (OScots), glove (MdE).
Alternate Forms: clove, glof, glofa, glofe, gloues, gloven, gloves, glovys, glow, glowe, glowes, glufe, gluve, glwfe.
1a(n.)
Accessory;
covering for the hand; usually a fitted covering for the hand and fingers; as part of a pair. Use extended from protection for a manual worker's hands to a luxury garment for the rich.
With figurative and extended uses, a glove as a symbol of challenge (in law, etc.); as a love token or promise of covenant; as a pledge of action; as a symbol of a lady's favour; as a symbol of a request made; as a symbol of feudal or financial obligation; also signifying something trivial or of little worth.(ante 1000 still in current use)
2. Glof hangode sid ond syllic, searobendum fæst; [sio] wæs orðoncum eall gegyrwed deofles cræftum ond dracan fellum.
Heroic, Poetic.
[DOE Beo (0578 (2085))]
4. Be oxanhyrde: Oxanhyrde mot læswian II oxan oððe ma mid hlafordes heorde on gemænre læse be his ealdormannes gewitnesse; earnian mid ðam scos & glofa him sylfum.
Legal.
[DOE LawRect (0036 (12)) ante 1100]
6. [562] ... Of fyn orfrays [F D'orfrois] hadde she eke A chapelet ... And faire above that chapelet A rose gerland had she sett ... [570] ... Hir heed was tressed queyntly, Hir sleues sewid fetously ... [572] ... Of gloves white she had a paire
Poetic, Romance.
[MED RRose ((Htrn 409) 562-572) ante 1425]
7. [3457] ... The riche kynge ... rawghte on his wedys, A reedde acton of rosse, the richeste of floures. ... [3460] ... One he henttis a hode of scharlette full riche, A pauys pillion hatt, þat pighte was full faire With perry of þe Oryent, and precyous stones ... [3462] ... Thane rysez the riche kynge ... His gloues gayliche gilte and grauen by þe hemmys, With graynes of rubyes
Arthurian, Heroic, Romance.
[MED Morte Arth.(1) ((Thrn) 3457-3462) circa 1440]
8. chescun champyon covient porter un glove ovy luy et en chescun fynger un dener, et l’un champyon donera a l’auter son glove et donquez un jour serra doné a eux a quell jour covient apperer
Legal.
[AND Readings (95) circa 1420/1489]
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Hand.
1b(n.)
Accessory;
glove (as previous) as used as armour; gauntlet. Appears in the phrase 'glove of plate(s)' a plated gauntlet.(circa 1390 - circa 1480)
2. [7] ... Weuerwombes [?read: Beuer-] and oter skynes, tymbar, v d. ... Cableyarn and Ropyarn c lb., ob. ... A Tymber Letowse, ij d. ... Vombras and Rerebras ... A Basenet with vyntayle .... Gloves of Plate ... [8] ... Canefas de Bretayne et ores cloth, c, ij d. ... Grenyng wed, un charge de charett, iiij d. ... [9] ... Lambsel [read: Lambfel] ye dos. yorwzout the zer, j d. and iij quart ... For j pece brod woll cloth l d.; and for j pece streyt, ob.
Legal.
[MED Oath Bk Colchester (7-9) ante 1399]
3. ITEM [10] it is ſtatut þt na ȝemā na common to landart' wer hewyt clathes ſiddar na þe kne na ȝit ragyt clathes bot allan’ly centynal ȝemen in lord' houſis at rid' wt gentill mē þar maſt’is þe quhilk' ſal haf narow ſlewis 7 litil pok' 7 ryt ſa þt þe cōmōis wif' ... wer nouþ’ lang taił na ſyde nekit hud' na pok' on þar ſlef' na coſtly curches as lawñ or rynß 7 all gēntill mēis wif' be not arayit excedand þe eſtate of þar huſband'
ITEM Be þe awyß of þe haill p[ar]liamēt it is ſtatute and ordanit þat ilk man þat may diſpende ȝerly xx liƀ or at has jc liƀ in movabil gud' þat he be wele horſit 7 haill enarmyt as a gēntill mā aucht to be And vþ’ ſympillar of x liƀ of rent or l liƀ in gud' haif hat gorgeat or peſañe with rerebraſar' vambraſar' 7 gluff' of plate breſt plat panß 7 legſplent' at þe leſt or bett’ gif him lik'
ITEM þt ilk ȝemañ þat is of xx liƀ in gud' haif a gude doublat of fence or ane habergeoñ ane yrn hat witħ bow and ſchefe ſuerde buklar 7 knyfe And all vþ’ ȝemeñ of x liƀ in gud' hif bow and ſchefe ſuerde and buklar and knyff And þe ȝemā þat is nane archer na can not deyll witħ a bow ſall haif a gude ſou’ hat for his hede 7 a doublat of fence witħ ſuerde 7 buklar 7 a gude ax or ell' a brogit ſtaff
Legal.
[LexP Acts Parl. Scot. (II: 18-19, items 10-12) 1429]
6. To arme a man. ffirste ye muste sette on Sabatones and tye hem up on the shoo with smale poyntis ... And then griffus & then quisses ... And þen rerebras, And then glovys [vr. cloovis]
He schal have ... a payr' hosyn of stamyn sengill and a peyre of shorte bulwerkis of thynne blanket to put aboute his kneys for chawfynge of his lighernes. ... A longe swerde ... Also a kerchif to hele the viser of his basinet ... His basinet pynnid up on two greet staplis before the breste, with a dowbill bokill behynde up on the bak for to make the basinet sitte juste ... Thre coordis muste be faste sowid un to the hele of the shoo and fyne [read: fyue] cordis in the mydill of the soole ... and that ther be betwene the frettis of the heele and the frettis of the myddill of the shoo the space of thre fyngris.
Legal.
[MED Arms Chivalry (Mrg M 775) (43-44) ante 1486]
Sex: Male Use: Military Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Hand.
1c(n.)
Accessory;
the fingers of a glove? [MED, 'glove, n.', c]. Used to describe the shape of leaves.(circa 1450 ?)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Definite, OE glófe (itself possibly from ge + lóf 'palm of the hand'; Stroebe, 1904, 30-1); cognate with Old Norse glófe.
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