gley

[ gley ]

noun

, Geology.

1. a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.

gley

/ ɡleɪ /

noun

1. a bluish-grey compact sticky soil occurring in certain humid regions

Word History and Origins

Origin of gley¹

1925–30; < Ukrainian gleĭ clayey earth; cognate with Byelorussian, Russian dialect gleĭ, Serbo-Croatian glêj; akin to clay

Word History and Origins

Origin of gley¹

C20: from Russian glei clay

Example Sentences

The influence of these disorders in the parent may result in the bony mal-development shown to occur in animals by Charrin and Gley, and in man by Coolidge.

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The malformations of the limbs experimentally demonstrated to be due to ancestral infection by Charin and Gley, and to injury by Dupuy, noticeably occur in men.

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The experimental results of Charin and Gley, on the degeneration produced in offspring by ancestral microbic infection, tend to show that not merely are the extremities affected, but in certain cases the whole organism, along lines laid down by Moreau’s categories.

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Gley suggested that a female brain was combined with masculine glands of sex.

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Elizabeth Anderson, a girl of seventeen, a beggar, James Lindsay, of fourteen, and gley’d Thomas, his brother, not yet twelve—who for a halfpenny would turn himself widershins and stop a plough at a word—were found willing and able to confess.

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