Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Astonishment; fear.
- To gaze in alarm; be terrified.
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- verb intransitive, dialectal To
gaze in alarm; be terrified;stare . - noun obsolete
Astonishment ;awe ;fear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here in America, we can glope about buying any type of comics.
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“The person standing on the surface of the ground or floor Cannot injure the heavenly bodies or any highly hanging Lamp or glope by ejecting his spit from his mouth upward it will only injure his own face without attempting of Heavenly bodies ” &c.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870
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"The person standing on the surface of the ground or floor Cannot injure the heavenly bodies or any highly hanging Lamp or glope by ejecting his spit from his mouth upward it will only injure his own face without attempting of Heavenly bodies -- &c.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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