icker

A low-wattage? icker of recognition came to his face.

'City of the Sun' 2008

They spoke sweetly and didn't play games, and I never saw the fl icker of distance in their eyes.

Lynne Meredith Schreiber: Forbidden Desires 2008

[6-4] _Daimen-icker_ means an ear of corn occasionally.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

A daimen-icker [6-4] in a thrave [6-5] 'S a sma 'request:

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

A daimen icker in a thrave [odd ear, 24 sheaves] 'S a sma 'request; [Is]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

—A daimen-icker, a corn-ear now and then; thrave, shock.

Notes: Book Third. Palgrave, Francis T Francis T. Palgrave 1875

A daimen icker in a thrave [171] 'S a sma 'request:

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

[295] Burns's Lines to a Mouse: "a daimen-icker in a thrave," that is, an ear of corn out of two dozen sheaves.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

_Daimen_, rare, now and then; _Daimen icker_, an ear of corn occasionally.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma 'request; I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An 'never miss't.

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