GLEED

PRONUNCIATION: (gleed)

MEANING: noun: A glowing coal.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English gled. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which also gave us yellow, gold, glimmer, gloaming, gloze, glimpse, and glass. Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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FLEED - incorrect past tense of flee, often used instead of FLEW

GLEND - nickname of the Good Witch of the South

GLEYED - spoiled, the way some of the the best-laid plans o' mice and men gang aft