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Gliff   Listen
noun
Gliff  n.  
1.
A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
A moment: as, for a gliff. (Scot.)





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"Gliff" Quotes from Famous Books



... beneath the smouldering 'bowet' I had borrowed from the 'Meenister' I recognised with a start the slight, shrunken figure of 'Brownie' with his white, pathetic face. It was the swiftest of visions, yet I had seen enough to give me a 'gliff,' for the eyes were not those of 'Brownie,' but of ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease


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