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▪ I. glisk, n. Sc.|glɪsk|
[f. the vb.]
1. A slight look; a glimpse.
c1692A. Pitcairne Assembly (1722) 18 The Malignants, whom they knew by the first Glisk of their Face. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 164, I was much pleased with the glisk I took of it [a book]. 1814Scott Wav. lxiv, They just got a glisk o' his Honour as he gaed into the wood. 1922J. Buchan Huntingtower vii. 138, I took a walk and got a glisk of the House and I liked the look of it.
2. A glance (of the eye); a gleam, glimmer, flash (of light).
1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xviii, I wauld na gi'e a glisk of thae bonny een of yours for aw the eyes o' the world put thegither. 1870A. Wanless in Crockett Minstr. Merse (1893) 231 The glisks o' heaven will never fade. 1898Blackw. Mag. Mar. 341 The rapture of her eye infected me like a glisk of the sun.
fig.1883W. C. Smith N. Country Folk 105 And you need a glisk of religion to glamour the days that are past. 1893Stevenson Catriona 209, I had a glisk of pleasure.
▪ II. glisk, v. Obs. exc. dial.|glɪsk|
[? perh. f. root glis- or glit- (see glise, glitter vbs.) + suffix -k, as in walk, talk, etc.]
†1. intr. To glance over. Obs.
1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 490, I have only got time to glisk it over cursorily.
2. dial. To glitter, shine.
1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., It glisk'd like a piece of glass. |