 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 4. the shock felt when plunging into water (Scottish) 5. a short sleep, a nap (Scottish) VERB 1. to slip, to glance aside; fig. to make a slip in reading (obs. except Scot. and Nth. Eng.) 2. to look in a quick, hurried manner, to glance (obs. except Scot. and Nth. Eng.) 3. to flash, to gleam; to shine suddenly (obs. except Scot. and Nth. Eng.) 4. to take fright, to alarm, to startle; to be seized with a panic or sudden fear (obs. except Scot. and Nth. Eng.) 5. to feel a shock in consequence of plunging into water (Scottish) also GLEFFE, GLIF, GLIFFE, GLIFT, GLUFFE, GLYFF, GLYFFE, GLYPH CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES  from Middle English gilffen to look quickly, to glance  a 1225 - Ancren Riwle; see below From: The Ancren Riwle A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life Edited and Translated from a Semi-Saxon MS. of the Thirteenth Century By James Morton Printed for the Camden Society, 1853 P. 46 (for verb 1)   From: Waverley Novels By Sir Walter Scott Printed 1820 Old Mortality (published 1816) Chapter the Nineteenth P. 521 (for noun 2) 
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