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E.D.D. gives this word as glincey and derives from French glincer as glisser, to slide or glide. Glinzy and glincey carry unavoidable suggestion of glint. Compare the words in No. 19. Glissery would be convincing. 'The green east hagged with prowling storm'. In O.E.D. #hagged# is given as monopolized by the sense of 'bewitched', or of 'lean and gaunt', related to haggard. This does not suit.
'A hizzing dragonfly that daps Above his mudded pond'. #Hizzing# is an old word now neglected. Shakespeare has 'To have a thousand with red burning spits Come hizzing in upon 'em'. Lear, III. vi. 17. and there are other quotations in O.E.D. 'The glinzy ice grows thicker through'. Author's glossary explains #glinzy# as slippery.
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