▪ I. glist, n. rare (? dial.)
(glɪst)
[f. the vb.]
1. A gleam, glistening.
| 1864 J. Miller Songs Sierras (1872) 196 Shadows that shroud the to-morrow, Glists from the life that's within. 1894 Hall Caine Manxman v. xxii. 351 The scars of the turf were still unhealed and the glist of the spade was on the grass. |
2. An old name for mica.
| 1715 Thoresby Leeds 467 A red Daze or small Glist. 1728 Nicholls in Phil. Trans. XXXV. 407 A pseudometallick Substance, by the Miners term'd Glist. 1776 Pryce Min. Cornub. 321 Glist, a shining black or brown Mineral of an iron cast, somewhat like Cockle. |
▪ II. glist, v. Now only Sc.
(glɪst)
[Early ME. in pr. pple. glistinde, perh. reduced from glistninde: see glisten v.]
intr. To glisten. Hence ˈglisting ppl. a.
| a 1225 St. Marher. 9 Wið þæt ha sehen þæt unselhðe glistinde as hit ouerguld were. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 838 Þe glistinde wordes þæt beoð in ower bokes (þe beoð wiðuten godleic & empti wiðinnen). 1719 Hardy Knute in Maidment Scot. Ballads & Songs (1868) I. 13 Her girdle shawed her Middle gimp, And gowden glist her Hair. |