Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being glary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dazzling luster or brilliancy.
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- noun Quality of being
glary ; adazzling brilliancy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The meat looks fat and nice, and is relished by the people, a little glariness seemed to be present on the foreleg, and I sometimes think that, notwithstanding the dissimilarity of the symptoms observed in the camels and buffaloes now, and those we saw in oxen and horses, the evil may be the tsetse, after all, but they have been badly used, without a doubt.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The meat looks fat and nice, and is relished by the people, a little glariness seemed to be present on the foreleg, and I sometimes think that, notwithstanding the dissimilarity of the symptoms observed in the camels and buffaloes now, and those we saw in oxen and horses, the evil may be the tsetse, after all, but they have been badly used, without a doubt.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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