What's the difference between gleet and leet?

Gleet


Definition:

  • (n.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
  • (v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.
  • (v. i.) To flow slowly, as water.

Example Sentences:

Leet


Definition:

  • (obs. imp.) of Let, to allow.
  • (n.) A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office.
  • (n.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.
  • (n.) The European pollock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps if people don't understand trolling, or have never heard of 4chan, or don't know their leet from their noob, they should be safely ignored.
  • (2) Photos of portreeves wearing the gold chain of office recall the status of this former parliamentary borough and of earlier manorial days when a leader was elected at the court leet each October.
  • (3) Some favourite nature words: aftermath the first growth of grass in a field after it has been cut (English, regional) coire high, scooped hollow on a mountainside, usually cliff-girt (Gaelic) didder of a patch of bog or marsh; to quiver as a walker approaches it (East Anglia) eawl-leet dusk, lit.

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