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†glint [glɩ‘nt], sb., 1) a glimpse; to get a g. o’ onyting. 2) a gleam of the sun; a passing gleam of sunshine between (dense) clouds, a g. o’ sunshine (Uⁿ.). 3) a small opening between clouds through which the sun shines. May in meanings 1 and 2 poss. replace an older *glimt, a glimpse, but may also be a loan-word from L.Sc. glint, glent, sb., a glance; flash. With ref. to meanings 1—2, and esp. 3, cf. Sw. dial. glint, glänt, m., a glimpse; gleam; a small opening. — See glunt, sb.

glip [gləp], sb., a wedge-shaped, uncultivated patch of ground between two fields. Du. *glip-. No. glip, m., a gap; an outlet through which water gushes, etc., glipa, f., a small gap; an opening. Cf. the foll. word.

glipek [glɩpək, glepək, gləpək] and glipi [glɩpi, glepi, gləpi], sb., an opening; cleft; fissure, esp. such as can be looked through, e.g. the opening between two hills or in a rock, etc., the broken, upper part of a wall (stone wall) or of a fence (stone fence). glipek: De^w. (M.Roe), Ai. occas., Wh. glipi: Nmⁿ. (N.Roe), Ai. occas., Sa., Du. In Du. glipi [gləpi] is used esp. of a funnel-shaped opening, in Sa. glipi [glepi] esp. of a deep hollow. From Wh. glipek [glepək] is reported in sense of a rent; rift; a glipek in a coat or in a pair o’ troosers [‘trousers’]. — *glip-. No. glip, m., and glipa, f., a (narrow) opening; a crack; a small gap, etc.

glir [gli̇̄r], sb., 1) a blinking; peering with half-shut eyes at a bright (dazzling) light, at a sunny sky; U.; Ai. 2) (dazzling) sunshine through slight haze in the sky; der’r [‘there is’] a g. on the sky (U.); a windy g., a bright, bluish-white sky, harbinger of wind (Uⁿ.). No. glir, m., a blinking (gleaming), Sw. dial. glira, f., a ray of light; a sun-

beam (between clouds). See below, glir, vb.

glir [gli̇̄r], vb., 1) to blink, peer with narrowed eyelids, esp. at a bright (dazzling) light. U.; Ai. 2) of the sun: to shine through a slight haze; of the sky: to have a bright, bluish-white appearance with sunshine through haze; a glirin sky. U. 3) of flesh and fish: to emit a kind of coppery sheen, to be phosphorescent; glirin flesh or fish; de fish glirs (is glirin) i’ de dark. Uⁿ. — No. glira, vb., a) to blink; b) to gleam, shine through; Sw. dial. glira, vb., to blink. — Cf. glur, vb.

gliret [gli̇̄rət], adj., 1) blinking; that looks through narrowed eyelids; a g. (g.-lookin’) man. Ai.; U. 2) of the sky: light, with sunshine through haze; a g. sky = a glirin sky (U.). In meaning 1, gliret is an orig. *glirøygðr (eygðr); No. glirøygd, adj., blinking. In meaning 2 a *gliróttr. See glir, sb. and vb.

†glisk [glɩsk] and †glisker [glɩskər], sb., 1) a glimpse of light; a glimpse of sun; passing sunshine between clouds, a glisk (glisker) o’ de sun (N.Sh.); de sun was ut wi’ a glisker (N.I.). In this sense also glist [glɩst], a g. o’ de sun. Nm^w. 2) a) light from a blazing fire; a fire-g., a g. o’ de fire; b) (momentary) heatfrom, or warming at, the fire on the hearth; to tak’ a glisk (glisker) o’ de fire, to warm oneself at the fire for a moment. Cf. gles¹, sb. 3) a fresh, drying breeze; a drying in fresh air for a while, of objects, esp. of clothes, hung out for a short period of drying; gi’e [‘give’] it a glisk o’ fresh air! (N.Roe). 4) a moment; in this sense only recorded in conn. with the preceding, viz., of a short while in which something is dried: hang it ut a glisk! hang them (the clothes) out a while (to be dried)! N.Roe. — glisker: