2. A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens.
Douse the glim,
put out the light. [Slang]
Glimmer
(Glim"mer) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer
a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan.
glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.] To give feeble or scattered rays
of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Shak. Syn. — To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.
Glimmer
(Glim"mer), n.
1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls.
Tennyson. 2. Mica. See Mica. Woodsward.
Glimmer gowk,
an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.
Glimmering
(Glim"mer*ing), n.
1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.
2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
Glimpse
(Glimpse) n. [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]
1. A sudden flash; transient luster.
LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.
Milton. 2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
S. Rogers. 3. A faint idea; an inkling.
Glimpse
(Glimpse) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimpsed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing.] to appear by glimpses; to
catch glimpses. Drayton.
Glimpse
(Glimpse), v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.
Chaucer.