blick

To shine, gleam.

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.

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.

The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

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;

Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.

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.