Meaning of glisk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.
   Northern-England, Scotland
2. To glance.
   Northern-England, Scotland

Examples

“[…] 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[…]”

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

“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; […]”

“... 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[…]”

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