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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Glib a. [Compar. Glibber superl. Glibbest ]
 1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
 2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
 I want that glib and oily art,
 To speak and purpose not.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 glibber
      See glib

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 glib
      adj 1: marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib
             generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex
             question"
      2: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
         slick commercial" [syn: pat, slick]
      3: artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a
         smooth-tongued hypocrite" [syn: glib-tongued, smooth-tongued]
      [also: glibbest, glibber]