Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A source of light, as a candle.
- noun The illumination given off by such a source.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shine; glimmer.
- To glance slyly; look askance.
- Also
glime . - noun Brightness; sheen.
- noun A light, as of a lamp or candle.
- noun An eye.
- noun Glimpse; glance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Brightness; splendor.
- noun Slang A light or candle.
- noun [Slang] put out the light.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A
light ,candle ,lantern . - noun slang An
eye . - noun obsolete
brightness ;splendour
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It strikes me as 'ow it' ud be the proper thing for you to draw your jib, douse the glim, an 'turn in, seein' as 'ow it worrits you.
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But also the democrates might very well establish another military objective in case a 2012 victory becomes glim.
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"Stay here - and keep that glim outside or you'll blow the town sky-high!"
THE NUMBERS 2010
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BadgerMatt was then unable to sell the tickets to people who had made lower bids, so he used a technique called the "glim-dropper" to trick the woman into paying what she owed.
eBay User Turns Tables On Scammer With Great Trick, Serves Up Justice The Huffington Post 2010
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BadgerMatt was then unable to sell the tickets to people who had made lower bids, so he used a technique called the "glim-dropper" to trick the woman into paying what she owed.
eBay User Turns Tables On Scammer With Great Trick, Serves Up Justice The Huffington Post 2010
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Wolfstack Docks glim and surface currency; by this time I had enough echoes such that I simply bought my way in.
Another Echo Bazaar Status Update | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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BadgerMatt was then unable to sell the tickets to people who had made lower bids, so he used a technique called the "glim-dropper" to trick the woman into paying what she owed.
eBay User Turns Tables On Scammer With Great Trick, Serves Up Justice The Huffington Post 2010
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Wolfstack Docks glim and surface currency; by this time I had enough echoes such that I simply bought my way in.
Another Echo Bazaar Status Update | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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BadgerMatt was then unable to sell the tickets to people who had made lower bids, so he used a technique called the "glim-dropper" to trick the woman into paying what she owed.
eBay User Turns Tables On Scammer With Great Trick, Serves Up Justice The Huffington Post 2010
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The findings are glim and reflect a significant portion of low-level readers.
Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook « Books « Literacy News 2009
chained_bear commented on the word glim
"Then tomorrow evening you make a particular point of moving out into the offing very well lit up: when you are far out I shall slip past you without a glim, taking your boats in tow as I pass."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 173
A Sea of Words: "a light of any kind. A candle, a lantern." (215)
February 29, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word glim
The venereal disease. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
June 14, 2011