glimmering (glime ring)

[ Bar. Methinks he looks well; His colour fresh and strong; his eyes are cheerful. Lop. A glimmering before death; 'tis nothing else, sir. Fletcher , Spanish Curate, iv. 5. [They] had not had their conjectures alarmed by some glimmerings of light into that dark project before. South , Works, III. xii. 2. A dim or vague view or notion; an inkling; a glimpse. This kunne not we knowe ful certeyne, but han glymer yng & supposyng. Wyclif, Eng. Works hitherto unprinted (ed. Matthew), [p. 339. I have not a glimmering of it, yet in general I remember the scope of it. Latimer , 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. on the way the baggage post-boy, who had been at court, got a glimmering who they were. Sir H. Wotton. glimmeringly (glim'er-ing-li), adv. With a faint, glimmering appearance. Glimmeringly did a pack of were-wolves pad The snow. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 25. glimpse, v.] A faint perception: same as glimpse. Ye han som glymsyng and no parfyt sight. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 1137. See glimpse .