Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
glower .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
glower .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And ye glour like an owl till you're feelin 'the stert
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After hanging at my window for two or three months, collecting all the idle wives and weans of the parish to glour and gaze at them from morn till night, during which time I got half of my lozens broken, by their knocking one another's heads through, I was obliged to get quit of them at last, by selling them to a man and his son, that kept dancing dogs,
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I had the same trust in Heaven as I had before, seeing that they were the dividual stars above my head which I used to glour up at in wonder at
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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After hanging at my window for two or three months, collecting all the idle wives and weans of the parish to glour and gaze at them from morn till night, during which time I got half of my lozens broken, by their knocking one another's heads through, I was obliged to get quit of them at last, by selling them to a man and his son, that kept dancing dogs,
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I had the same trust in Heaven as I had before, seeing that they were the dividual stars above my head which I used to glour up at in wonder at
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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28 _Peaching_. 4to 1698 weakly reads 'Preaching'.p. 201, l. 14 _glout_. 1724 'glour'.p. 202, l.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664
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