glisks
glisks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of glisk.
Meaning of glisk
Verb
glisk (third-person singular simple present glisks, present participle glisking, simple past and past participle glisked)
- To glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.
- […] 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[…]2013 October 17, Josephine Johnson, Winter Orchard and Other Stories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
- To glance.
- 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; […]1836, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 429
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- Glisks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of glisk.
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