Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shine; glisten.
- To look.
- noun In mining, a shining black or brown mineral, of an iron cast, something like cockle (schorl).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Glimmer; mica.
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- noun mineralogy
glimmer ;mica
Etymologies
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Examples
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Karl saw them with one of those furtive glances, and the glist froze the pretty speech he was trying to make to Elsa.
The Devil A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience Joseph O'Brien 1915
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The scars of the turf were still unhealed, and the glist of the spade was on the grass.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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It's free if you get on the glist, which I did, but for some reason my name didn't show up on their list.
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And yet I still get the promo e-mails since I gave them my e-mail for the glist.
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A wild glist of wind, laden with all the fragrance of hills and woods, would put out my light, and I would fling aside my dress and lie down on my bed, my eyes closed and my body thrilling with delight, and there around me in the breeze, amid all the perfume of the woods and hills, floated through the silent gloom many a caress and many a kiss and many a tender touch of hands, and gentle murmurs in my ears, and fragrant breaths on my brow; or a sweetly-perfumed kerchief was wafted again and again on my cheeks.
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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.list object setOptions (glist) generic. list object find (text, value)
The Code Project Latest Articles Mahdi Yousefi 2008
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