An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Gael. glaic, a handful.

To GLACK one's mitten, to put money into one's hand, S. B.
Journal Lond.

Gael. glac-am, to receive.

GLAD, GLAID, GLADE, GLID, adj.
1. Smooth, easy in motion, S.
Ruddiman.
2. Slippery; glid ice, S. B.
3. Applied to one who is not to be trusted, S. B.

A. S. glid, Belg. glad, Su. G. glatt, lubricus.

GLADDERIT, part. pa. Besmeared.

Teut. kladder-en, to bedaub.

Dunbar.

GLAIK, pl. Glaiks, s.
1. The reflection of the rays of light, from a lucid body in motion.
Kennedy.
To cast the glaiks on one, to make the reflection fall on one, S.
2. Any thing that produces reflection.
Adamson.
3. A deception; what suddenly eludes one's grasp or sight, S.
Lyndsay.
To play the glaiks with one, to gull, to cheat.
Lyndsay.
To get the glaik, to be gulled or cheated, S. B.
Leg. St Androis.
To hunt the glaiks, to pursue with perpetual disappointment.
Colvil.
4. The act of jilting. To gie the glaiks, to jilt one, S.
Herd.
5. A giddy and frivolous person.
Chr. Kirk.
6. A bat, Loth.

A. S. glig, ludibrium, Teut. glick-en, nitere.