The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
A sawed-off length of something.
Origin
Perhaps ; perhaps an error for, or nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.
From German Blick ("look, glance, twinkle, flash"), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *blikiz ("shine, appearance, look"). Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik ("gleam, sheen"), Old English blice ("sheen, denuded site").
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