Part 4840

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A faint idea; an inkling.</def>

<h1>Glimpse</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glimpse</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Glimpsed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Glimpsing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.</def>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<h1>Glimpse</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glimpse</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.</def>

<blockquote>Some <b>glimpsing</b> and no perfect sight. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glint</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glint</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>glent</ets>.]</ety> <def>A glimpse, glance, or gleam.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark> "He saw a <i>glint</i> of light."

<i>Ramsay.</i>

<h1>Glint</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glint</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Glinted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Glinting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>glenten</ets>. Cf. <er>Glance</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, <er>Glitter</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.</def>

<i>Burns.</i>

<h1>Glint</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glint</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To glance; to turn; <as>as, to <ex>glint</ex> the eye</as>.</def>

<h1>Glioma</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gli*o"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ glue + <ets>-oma</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.</def>

<h1>Glires</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gli"res</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[L., dormice.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An order of mammals; the Rodentia.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Gli"rine</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Glissade</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glis`sade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>glisser</ets> to slip.]</ety> <def>A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.</def>

<i>Tyndall.</i>

<h1>Glissando</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glis*san"do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & a.</tt> <ety>[As if It. = Fr. <ets>glissant</ets> sliding.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A gliding effect; gliding.</def>

<h1>Glissette</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glis*sette"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>glisser</ets> to slip.]</ety> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.</def>

<h1>Glist</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Glisten</er>.]</ety> <def>Glimmer; mica.</def>