keeking-glass Sc. and north. dial.
[See keek v.]
A looking-glass.
| a 1724 in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 60 For the love ye bear to me Buy me a keeking-glass. a 1796 Burns Impromptu 3 My face was but the keekin' glass, An' there ye saw your picture. 1820 Scott Monast. xiv, A breast⁓plate you might see to dress your hair in, as well as in that keeking-glass. 1882 J. Walker Jaunt & other Poems 12 A bonnie lass That plaits her ringlets at the keeking glass. |