Four cards all alike, as four aces, four kings, etc., in a game of cards called Gleek. Gleek is three cards alike.
“A mournival of aces, gleek of knaves;
Just nine a-piece.”
Albumazar, iii. 5.
Poole in his English Parnassus called the four elements Nature’s first mournival.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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