Dictionary entry

Glib (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser.

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.