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Definition gliming

Etymology

From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glim?, from Proto-Indo-European *??ley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

Noun

glim (countable and uncountable, plural glims)

1. (obsolete) brightness; splendour
2. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
3. (archaic, slang) An eye.
4. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
5. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
6. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
7. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

Verb

glim (third-person singular simple present glims, present participle glimming, simple past and past participle glimmed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
2. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
3. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.

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