n
ā, f.
I Abstract
(a)
satire, a lampoon, a censure :
glām ... ab eo quod est clamor .i. escaine,
Corm. Y 695
.
indsa glām de doiduine,
450
.
glam gér .i. ainmedh i t' agaid
┐ ecnairc,
O'Dav. 1430
. Aer ocus Aithis ... Glam ocus
Griss ocus Goirturiathar (fictitious names),
Anecd. ii 63.1
.
Cf.
RC xxiv 280.19
. trí gáire dimbuaid do ḟlaith: gāir glám
dia guin ... `the shout of satires to wound him,'
Ériu ix
46 § 10
.
da saoradh ar ghuth na glaimhe sin,
BNnÉ 163
§ 30
.
glāime gonadh,
ACL iii 297 § 50
. fa ma roluinne
fria ngrōmadh | gusnaib glāmaibh ?
294 § 3
.
dreach
Mhogha fá ghrís ghlámha,
ML 144.19
.
trí drude denma
glam ngér,
LU 10547
.
rosnesart co nglamaib ainmhechaibh,
BB 368a27
. Glám dícenn (dígenn) an extempore satire, a
kind of metrical malediction, which was believed to produce a
blemish or blister on the face of the person satirised, see
RC xx 421.
For the manner of its composition see
IT iii
96
-
7
;
Manners and Customs ii 216 seq
. Each class of poets had
its proper glám dícenn, see
RC xii 120
-
1
;
IT iii loc. cit.
It
was composed in the metre of the `laíd':
laid ... no leódh .i.
gerradh ... ar is fuirre dogníther in glamh digind,
O'D. 1202
(
H 2.15A, p. 81b
).
IT iii 96 § 155
.
dognī Nēide glām
ṅdicend dō, co toralæ teoræ bulgæ for a grūaidibh
,
Corm. Y
698
.
ar con derntáis téor(a) ǽra ... ┐ teora glamma dícend,
go tócbaitís teora bolga bar a agid,
TBC-LL¹ 3019
.
in glaim
dicend .i. in tuba n-ainme no in lesanmad,
Laws i 240.20
Comm.
tri ruighlis ollamhan filidh .i. glám diginn ┐ glas
gabháil ┐ tobach do tuathaib,
O'D. 1196
(
H 2.15A, p. 79b
).
glamfa iman nglaim ndigend,
Laws iii 92.12
.
┐ in glam
diccind,
v 234.8 Comm.
g
s.
ro fhoslaic D. a bél do denamh
gláimhe díginn d'Aedh,
BNnÉ 37 § 66
.
na glaime dicinde,
RC xii 307
-
8
;
xx 421.16
.
filidh dia n-āir ┐ glāim n-dícind,
MacCongl. 45.z
. See further
RC xii 90 § 115
;
xxiv 278
.
LL
187b10
.
LB 238(c)b21
.
O'Curry 2134
-
6
.
Compds.
¤aithisach
reviling:
goirt-bhriathra gera glám-aithisecha geoin,
MR 124.2
.
¤gabáilche:
fallscadh glam-gabailchi Aibartaich,
BB 259a4
=
YBL 178b48
.
(b)
outcry, clamour:
(1) of persons:
atá sunn cen nach
ngláim ṅglé | eter da láim th'inginé,
SR 5995
. bae in ri,
fo glámaib gne | do dálaib a aisliṅgthe (of Pharaoh's dream),
3277
.
cen gláma gné,
263
.
fri glamma gné,
6383
.
(2) of
animals and things: ba samalta ri gláim con allmaraig
barking, yelping
,
LL 266b18
(
MU² 611
). Gláimh (name of
a dog),
Oss. iv 210.6
. As vn.: ag gláimh goláin gac[h]
neóin (of dogs),
Oss. iv 174.6
. cluig ag gláimh 's ag beícidh
dinning,
iii 260.2
.
Compd. ag glamghoil gach maidin (of a dog),
iv 174.19
.
See also gloimm.
II Of persons, usu. pl., a satirist:
fáitte Medb na drúith
┐ na glámma ┐ na crúadgressa,
TBC-LL¹ 3017
. Cf.
1737
.
glámma
┐ cliara,
RC xiv 412 § 25
.
glamha gruaide,
SG 28.8
;
27.37
.
a foirghneamha forslaicthe ar chinn cliar ocus coinneamh,
greas ocus glamh,
MR 102.z
. a scold:
glámh garbh-ghothach greadhnach grod-fhoclach,
TSh. 6626
. In late
texts used like `dám' of a company or group of people in
general: ris an ngláim nglifidhigh, nglonnmair `by that
howling, furious crew,'
Cog. 114.24
.
dream nach diultadh
gláimh uim aisce,
Ó Bruad. ii 52.7
. With defining gen. :
glāim gilla ūasail a satirical youngster,
MacCongl. 87.4
.