A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Blenkin, v. [f. Blenk v.] intr. To gleam or glitter. —1375 Barb. viii. 217.
The sone wes rysyn schynand bricht, That blenknyt on the scheldis braid Ib. xi. 190.
Armys, that new burnyst wer, … blenknyt with the sonnys beyme
