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▪ I. glaise1 Sc. ? Obs.
[Possibly a var. of glace n.2; cf. glaze, mod. Sc. var. of glace v.]
A touch of fire, a scorch. Also fig.
a1572Knox Reform. Scotl. Wks. 1846 I. 17 Being bound to the staik in the myddest of some coallis [etc.] a trane of powder was maid and sett a fyre, quhilk gaue to the blessed martyre of God a glaise, skrimpled his left hand, and that syd of his face. 1825Jamieson s.v., A glaise o' the ingle, the act of warming one's self hastily at a strong fire.
▪ II. † glaise2 Sc. Obs.
[Origin and sense uncertain; perh. a. OF. glais, glas, resounding noise (see glass n.2); perh. var. of glace n.2, used fig.]
1585Jas. I. Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 23 Whyles in that toung I gaue a lusty glaise For to descryue the Troian Kings of olde.
▪ III. glaise
obs. form of glaze. |