Part 519

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

Shak.

Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.

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.

Glim"mer*ing, n. 1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.

2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.

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 (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimpsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing.] to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.

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.

Glint (?), n. [OE. glent.] A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

Glint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting.] [OE. glenten. Cf. Glance, v. i., Glitter, v. i.] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns.

Glint, v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

||Gli*o"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; glue + -oma.] (Med.) A tumor ||springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, ||spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

||Gli"res (?), n. pl. [L., dormice.] (Zoˆl.) An order of mammals; the ||Rodentia. -- Gli"rine (#), a.

||Glis`sade" (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] A sliding, as down a ||snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.