Pronunciations
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/blɪk/
Verb
To shine, gleam.
Usage- Transitive
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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.
To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- nonce-word
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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.
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On her first day, as she walked into work[…][s]he blicked-in at the time clock[…]
Noun
The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
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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.
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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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When the last of the lead separates, and the button is not smaller than a pin-head, there is a brilliant play of colors, then the button becomes dull; this is known as the "blick," "brightening," "fulguration," or "coruscation."
When the blick ( or coloured films ) just disappears, close the doors for a few minutes and then remove the cupels, taking the usual precautions against the button spitting.
Verb
Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.
Usage- Intransitive
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When the cupellation is nearly finished, a play of colors is seen, and the button [sc. of silver] suddenly brightens or “blicks,” and becomes white, and is free from lead.
The English cupelling furnaces are used; the bars of rich bullion being fed continually until the silver blicks, the litharge running into small iron pots for removal.
As the last of the lead is oxidized the iridescence suddenly disappears and the surface brightens or “blicks."
Noun
A sawed-off length of something.
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Witness here described many blicks of wood cut out of trees on this line showing ages of marks.
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Method of producing short boards as boards for boxes, cases or the like, characterized by the fact that the log previous to or after the ends thereof being cut away as usual is cut into short logs or blicks of about the length of the boards to be produced,
And we used the saw to cut down the snow in little blicks.
Noun
A pistol.
Usage- Multicultural-London-English
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Fix up, look sharp. Don't make me get the blicks out, get dark.
Verb
To shoot up (fire bullets at).
Usage- Multicultural-London-English
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Thinkin' like Roddy, got a stick in the box (Roddy) / Hide in another car, we just blickin' the opps (Bah)
I'ma blick niggas all in they coffin