glim (glim)

[ So watz I ranyste wyth glymme pure. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1087. 2. A light, as of a lamp or candle. [Colloq.] "Let's have a glim ," said Sikes, "or we shall go breaking our necks." Dickens , Oliver Twist, xvi. It is not a farthing glim in a bedroom, or we should have seen it lighted. C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, xlviii. 3. An eye. [Slang.] Harold escaped with the lo of a glim . Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 339. It unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away Into a bush. glimmer Dan. glimre = Sw. glimra , glimmer; freq. of glim, v.] 1. To shine faintly or unsteadily; emit feeble or wavering rays of light; twinkle; gleam: as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. His athel sturtes [noble stirrups), That euer glemered & glent al of grene stones. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 172. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 3. The pools No longer glimmer , and the silvery streams Darken to veins of lead at thy approach. Bryant, Rain-Dream. Tennyson, Edwin Morris. The idea of ever recovering happine never glimmered in her mind for a moment. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , vii. 2. 2. To blink; wink; look unsteadily. [Scotch.] =Syn. 1. Gleam, Flicker, etc. See glarel, v. i. glimmer (glim'ér), n. [= G. glimmer, a glimmer, mica, = Sw. glimmer, mica, dial. glimmer, = Dan. glimmer, glitter, mica; from the verb.] 1. A faint and wavering light; feeble and broken or scattered rays of light. Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left. Shak ., C. of E., v. 1. IMG:content-2389.png:[blocks in formation] 5t. Fire. [Old cant.] 2538 3. To look momentarily or accidentally. Her position rendered it absolutely impo ible that she should glimpse at the original [a picture]. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sci ., VII. 83. II. trans. 1. To get a momentary view of; see transiently. Chaucer's picturesque bits are incidental to the story, glimpsed in pa ing; they never stop the way. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 279. The God hitherto partially and intermittently glimpsed in Covenant Angel and Shechinah, henceforth became completely and permanently visible in the Man of Nazareth. G. D. Boardman , Creative Week, p. 181. De Soto merely glimpsed the river. S. L. Clemens, Life on Mi i ippi, p. 28. 2. To show or cause to be seen as by a glimpse. We conclude this survey with the mention of the psychology of the developing child, glimpsing as it does, in the budding capabilities of the infant, the microcosm of the race and an epitome of the struggle for civilization. Science, XI. 257.