englue

From en- +‎ glue: compare French engluer to smear with birdlime.

englue (third-person singular simple present englues, present participle engluing, simple past and past participle englued)

1. To join or close fast together, as if with glue.

   a coffer well englued

• lungee

englue

1. join together, as if with glue
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Forthy my ſone , hold up thin hede
     And let no ſlepe thin eye englue

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡly/

englue

1. inflection of engluer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative