glisk

present singular third person glisks · participle present glisking · participle past glisked · past glisked

1. Northern EnglandScotlandTo glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.

   […] the tinge of firelight glisking in her hair.

   2021 November 23, Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel, Dell, →ISBN

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   […] to watch the young fish go by glisking, and I thought to look a fish in the eye for the expression there and see if a wild fish were stupid or not. But no fish stopped and I thought of the pie again, in my mind seeing the brown peaks rising up where they would be[…]

   2013 October 17, Josephine Johnson, Winter Orchard and Other Stories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

2. Northern EnglandScotlandTo glance.

   As the piercing e'en o' Sir David Grame; / She glisked wi' her e'e where these e'en should be, / But the raven had been there afore she came. / There's a cloud that fa's darker than the night, / An' darkly on that lady it came; […]

   1836, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 429

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   ... like a secret. As he stood lone as a lighthouse, Sherman's eyes glisked through the toff junta he'd seen before only in the society pages of the Bombay Chronicle: the Mandalays; Eric Claude Fromm, the inventor of the world's first[…]

   2004, i, The Last Song of Dusk, Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 238