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Rh †glint [glɩ‘nt],, 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. 3) a small opening between clouds through which the sun shines. May in meanings 1 and 2 replace an older *, a glimpse, but may also be a loan-word from  glint, glent,, a glance; flash. With  to meanings 1—2, and  3,   glint, glänt, , a glimpse; gleam; a small . — See ,

glip [gləp],, a wedge-shaped, uncultivated patch of ground between two fields. *glip-. glip,, a gap; an outlet through which water gushes,, glipa, , a small gap; an opening. the word.

glipek [glɩpək, glepək, gləpək] and glipi [glɩpi, glepi, gləpi],, an opening; cleft; fissure, such as can be looked through, the opening between two hills or in a rock, , the broken, upper part of a wall (stone wall) or of a fence (stone fence). : , , : , , ,  In   [gləpi] is used of a funnel-shaped opening, in  [glepi]  of a deep hollow. From  [glepək] is reported in sense of a rent; rift; a in a coat or in a pair o’ troosers [‘trousers’]. — *glip-. glip,, and glipa, , a (narrow) opening; a crack; a small gap,

glir [gli̇̄r],, 1) a blinking; peering with half-shut eyes at a bright (dazzling) light, at a sunny sky; ; 2) (dazzling) sunshine through slight haze in the sky; der’r [‘there is’] a g. on the sky ; a windy g., a bright, bluish-white sky, harbinger of wind. glir, , a blinking (gleaming), glira,, a ray of light; a sunbeam sun- beam (between clouds). See below, ,

glir [gli̇̄r],, 1) to blink, peer with narrowed eyelids, at a bright (dazzling) light. ;  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 sky. 3) of flesh and fish: to emit a kind of coppery sheen, to be phosphorescent; flesh or fish; de fish (is ) i’ de dark. —  glira,, a) to blink; b) to gleam, shine through;  glira, , to blink. —  ,

gliret [gli̇̄rət],, 1) blinking; that looks through narrowed eyelids; a g. (g.-lookin’) man. ; 2) of the sky: light, with sunshine through haze; a g. sky = a sky. In meaning 1, is an  *glirøygðr (eygðr);  glirøygd, , blinking. In meaning 2 a *gliróttr. See, and

†glisk [glɩsk] and †glisker [glɩskər], , 1) a glimpse of light; a glimpse of sun; passing sunshine between clouds, a  o’ de sun ; de sun was ut wi’ a  . In this sense also  [glɩst], a g. o’ de sun. 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 o’ de fire, to warm oneself at the fire for a moment. $n$, 3) a fresh, drying breeze; a drying in fresh air for a while, of objects,  of clothes, hung out for a short period of drying; gi’e [‘give’] it a  o’ fresh air! . 4) a moment; in this sense only recorded in with the preceding, , of a short while in which something is dried: hang it ut a ! hang them (the clothes) out a while (to be dried)!. — :