Blick

/blɪk/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To shine, gleam..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To shine, gleam.
2. (nonce word, ambitransitive) To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
3. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
4. (intransitive) Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.
5. A sawed-off length of something.
6. (MLE, slang) A pistol.
7. (MLE, slang, transitive) To shoot up (fire bullets at).

Example Sentences

Shirley Steynes Bluey took a deep breath as he entered the main street; nothing new under the sun-lamp as white pinks blicked across the street in a line of heat-glazed asterisks

The lancing sunlight blicked sharps of light from the scattering of sand on the marble of the plinth.

The recorder blicked off, and the tape hissed to the end of the reel in silence.

He pulled out a cigarette lighter and blicked it.

On her first day, as she walked into work[…][s]he blicked-in at the time clock[…]

The nearer the process approaches to the “Blick,” the slower is the formation of litharge, till at last it can only be continued by a very strong fire.

It was also found advantageous not to complete cupellations in the cupel furnace, but to stop the operation some time before the Blick, and to transfer the alloy to the refining furnace, in which cupellation is completed and the silver refined;

Commonly, as it cools, it emits a sudden gleam or flash of light[…]but as this gleam or “blick” is exhibited by gold as well as by silver[…]

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Word Forms

• blicks
• blicking
• blicked

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