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' A&vrn; a glimmering 
lamp. 
His athel sturtes [noble stirrups], 
That euer rflemeird t 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. 
Her taper glimmer'd in the lake below. 
Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 
The idea of ever recovering happiness never glimmered 
in her mind for a moment. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vii. 2. 
2. To blink; wink; look unsteadily. [Scotch.] 
= Syn. 1. Gleam, Flicker, etc. See glare', v. i. 
glimmer (glim'er), n. [= G. glimmer, a glim- 
mer, mica, = Sw. glimmer, mica, dial, glimmer, 
= Dan. glimmer, glitter, mica ; from the verb.] 
1. A faint and wavering light; feeble and bro- 
ken or scattered rays of light. 
Yet hath ray night of life some memory, 
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left 
SAa*.,C. of E., v. 1. 
The flame, at first but a cloudy glimmer, then a flicker, 
now gave broad and welcome light. 
T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle vi. 
2. A faint glow ; a shimmer. 
Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxii. 9. 
3. A glimpse : same as glimmering, 2. 
I have had some glimmer, at times, in my gloomiest woe, 
Of a God behind all. Tennyson, Despair. 
4. Mica. 
Talc, catsilver, or glimmer, of which there are three 
sorts, the yellow or golden, the white or silvery, and the 
black. Woodward, Fossils. 
5f. Fire. [Old cant.] 
glimmer-gowk (glim'er-gouk), n. An owl. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
While V sit like a grant glimmer-gowk wi' 'is glasses athiirt 
'is noase. Tennymn, Village Wife, vii. 
glimmering (glim'er-ing), n. [< ME. glymer- 
yng ; verbal n. of glimmer, v.] 1. A feeble, un- 
steady light ; a glimmer ; a faint glow or gleam : 
as, a slight glimmering of sense. 
Bar. Methinks he looks well ; 
His colour fresh and strong ; his eyes are cheerful. 
Lop. A glimmering before death ; 'tis nothing else, sir. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 6. 
[They] had not had their conjectures alarmed by some 
glimmerings of light into that dark project before. 
South, Works, III. xii. 
2. A dim or vague view or notion; an inkling; 
a glimpse. 
This kunne not we knowe f ul certeyne, but han glymer- 
yng & snpposyng. 
Wyclif, Eng. Works hitherto unprinted (ed. Matthew), 
[p. 339. 
I have not a glimmering of it, yet in general I remem- 
ber the scope of it. 
Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
On the way the baggage post-boy, who had been at court, 
got & glimmering who they were. Sir H. Wotton. 
glimmeringly (glim'6r-ing-li), adv. With a 
faint, glimmering appearance. 
Glimmeringly did a pack of were-wolves pad 
The snow. . Browning, King and Book, I. 25. 
glimmeryt, . [Early mod. E. also glimrye; < 
glimmer + -yl.] Glimmering. Davies. 
Shal wee, father heuenlye, be carelesse 
Of thy claps thundring? or when flers glimrye be listed 
In clowds grim glooming? Stanihurst, JEneid, Iv. 216. 
glimpse (glimps), v.; pret. and pp. glimpsed, 
ppr. glimpsing. [Early mod. E. glimse (the p 
being excrescent), < ME. glimsen (in verbal n. 
glimsing, spelled glymsyng) = MHG. glimsen, 
G. dial, glumsen, glumpsen, glumbsen, glimmer, 
glow ; with verb-formative -s, from the root of 
glim, glimmer : see glim, glimmer.] I. intrans. 
If. To glimmer ; shine. 
The christal glas, which glimseth braue and bright, 
And shewes the thing much better than it is. 
Gascoigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 54. 
And little glow- vrormes glimpsing in the dark. 
Robert Earl of Huntington's Death, sig. E 1 (1601). 
2. To come into momentary view; appear 
transiently or as in a flash. 
The streams well ebb'd, new hopes some comforts borrow 
From firmest truth ; then glimps'd the hopefull morrow : 
So spring some dawns of joy, so sets the height of sorrow. 
P. Fletcher, Purple Island, xii. 
On the slope 
The sword rose, the hind fell, the herd was driven. 
Fire glimpsed. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 
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3. To look momentarily or accidentally. 
Her position rendered it absolutely impossible that she 
should glimpse at the original [a picture]. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sei., VII. 83. 
II. trans. 1. To get a momentary view of; 
see transiently. 
Chaucer's picturesque bits are incidental to the story, 
glimpsed in passing ; 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 Mississippi, p. 28. 
2. To show or cause to be seen as by a glimpse. 
We conclude this survey with the mention of the psy- 
lopi , , 
the budding capabilities of the infant, the microcosm of 
the race and an epitome of the struggle for civilization. 
chology of the developing child, glimpsing as it does, in 
the microcosm of 
for civilization. 
Science, XI. 267. 
glimpse (glimps), n. [< glimpse, v.~\ 1. A tran- 
sient gleam ; a momentary ray or flash of light. 
Light as the lightning glimpse, they ran, they flew. 
Milton, P. L, vi. 642. 
Sweet human faces, white clouds of the noon, 
Slant starlight glimpses through the dewy leaves. 
Whittier, Bridal of I'ennacook. 
2. A transient or hurried view ; a glance, as in 
passing; hence, a momentary or chance ex- 
perience of anything ; a faint perception. 
With looks 
Downcast and damp ; yet such wherein appear'd 
Obscure some glimpse of joy. Milton, P. L. , L 524. 
Methinks yon waving trees afford 
A doubtful glimpse of our approaching friends. 
Johnson, Irene, ii. 2. 
Like almost every one who caught glimpses of the West, 
he returned with a mind filled with the brightness of its 
promise. Bancroft, Hist Const, II. 106. 
3f. A faint trace or share ; a slight tinge. 
There is no man hath a virtue that he hath not uglimpse 
of; nor any man an attaint but he carries some stain of it 
Shak., T. and C., i. 2. 
glimpsingt, n. [< ME. glymsyng; verbal n. of 
glimpse, v.] A faint perception: same as 
glimpse. 
Ye han som glymsyng and no parfyt sight 
Chaveer, Merchant's Tale, L 1137. 
glimset, v. See glimpse. 
glimstick (glim'stik), . A candlestick. Grose. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
glin (glin), n. [Connected with glint, glink, 
glim, etc. : see glint, glim.] A hazy appear- 
ance on the horizon at sea, indicating the ap- 
proach of foul weather. C. Hallock. 
glincy (glin'si), a. Same as glinse. [Prov. 
Eug.j 
glink (glingk), v. i. [Var. of glint.] To glance ; 
look askance. [Prov. Eng.] 
glinnet, See glen and glyn. 
glinse (glins), a. [Cf. glint, a.] Slippery: 
smooth. Also glincy. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
glint (glint), v. [Also dial. (Sc.) glent; < ME. 
glenteti, shine, gleam, glance, look, glance off, 
tr. cast, throw, < ODan. glinte, shine (cf. Dan. 
glintt.te, glisten, shine, glimt, a gleam, flash, 
glimpse, glimte, gleam, flash, etc.), = Sw. dial. 
glinta, glanta, slip, slide, glance off; orig. a 
strong verb (pret. "giant), > ult. glance, q. v. 
The root "glint maybe regarded as a nasalized 
form of "glit in glitter, etc. : see glitter, and cf. 
glim, glimmer, etc.] I. intrans. 1. To shine; 
gleam ; glance ; show suddenly, as a gleam of 
light or a flash of lightning, or an object ap- 
pearing and disappearing. 
The stretez of golde as glasse al bare, 
The wal of lasper that glent as glayre. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), L 1025. 
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth 
Amid the storm. 
Burns, Mountain Daisy. 
The sight of the stars glinting fitfully through the trees, 
as we rolled along the avenue. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xx. 
Across the river the village of Pengandonan glinted 
through the palms. 
H. O. Forbes, Eastern Archipelago, p. 185. 
2f. To glance ; turn the eyes. 
As that hire eye glente 
Asyde, anon she gan his swerde aspye. 
Chaucer, Trollus, iv. 1223. 
He glent vpon syr Gawan, A gaynly he sayde. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 476. 
3f. To glance aside ; pass by. 
And the swerde glent be-twene the body and the shelde, 
and kutte the gige that it hanged on that it fiey in to the 
felde. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), iii. 552. 
4. To pass quickly or suddenly, like a gleam 
of light. [Scotch.] 
glirine 
How slow ye move, ye heavy hours ! 
The joyless day how dreary ! 
It was nae sae ye glinted by 
When I was wi' my dearie. 
Burns, How Lang an' Drearie is the Night. 
She is glinting homeward over the snow. 
J. Wilson, Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, p. 95. 
II. trans. 1. To reflect in glints or flashes. 
The sun's last glance was glinted back 
From spear and glaive, from targe and Jack ; 
The next, all unreflected, shone 
On bracken green and cold gray stone. 
Scott, L. of the L., v. 1<X 
2t. To cast ; throw : put aside. 
glint (glint), n. [Also dial. (Sc.) glent; < ME. 
glent, a look; from the verb.] 1. A gleam; a 
shimmer of light, as through a chink ; a flash, 
as of lightning. 
His lady cam at day, left a taiken and away, 
Gaed as licht as a glint o' the moon. 
Lord John (Child's Ballads, I. 136). 
There was an opening near the hou, 
Throw whilk he saw a glent of light. 
Ramsay, Poems, II. 523. 
The few persevering gnats . . . were stUl dancing about 
in the slanting iilintu of sunshine, that struck here and 
there across the lanes. 
T. llughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xlvii. 
The little room was dusky, save for a narrow glint stream- 
ing through the not quite closed door of the room. 
Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop. 
2. A glimpse ; a momentary view. [Scotch.] 
glintt (glint), a. [Cf . E. dial, glinse, glincy, slip- 
pery, smooth : see glint, v."] Slippery. 
Stones be full glint. Skelton. 
glinting (gliu'ting), n. [Verbal n. of glint, .] 
Same as glint. 
The nervous system . . . sees shadows and spots and 
glintings which are not natural to it. 
B. W. Richardson, Prevent Med., p. 847. 
glioma (gli-6'mS), n. ; pi. gliomata (-ma-tS). 
[NL., < Gr. y/Ua, glue, + -owia.] In patnol", a 
tumor composed of neuroglia. 
Neuroglia, supposed to be the source of one of the forms 
of tumor described . . . under the name of glioma. 
H. Gray, Anat. (ed. 1887), p. 72. 
gliomatous (gli-om'a-tus), o. [< glioma(t-) + 
-ous.~\ Pertaining to or of the nature of glioma 
or gliomata. 
Cellular tumours of the retina have been described as 
gliomatous. Ziegler, Pathol. Anat. (trans.), 1. 145. 
Cavity formations in the spinal marrow in adults may re- 
sult from gliomatous degeneration. Med. flews, 1 . 1 1 1 . 43. 
gliosarcoma (gli'o-siir-ko'ma), n. ; pi. gliosar- 
comata (-ma-tS). [< Gr. yl-ia, glue, + aapnaua, 
fleshy excrescence : see sarcoma.] In pathol., 
a tumor composed of gliomatous and sarcoma- 
tous tissue. 
(Hires (gli'rez), n. pi. [L., pi. of glis (glir-), a 
dormouse.] 1. The fourth Linnean order of 
Mammalia, composed of the genera Hystrix, Le- 
pus, Castor, Mus, Sciurus, and Noctilio : except- 
ing the last, the same as Bodentia, the rodents or 
Bosores. The term has long been superseded by Roden- 
tia, but has come into renewed use, as by Alston, Allen, 
Coues, and Gill. The Glires are divided into three sub- 
orders : (a) Simplieidentati, with one pair of incisors 
above and below, containing all living rodents excepting 
the hares and pikas ; (b) Duplicidentati, with more than 
one pair of upper incisors, containing the hares and pikas ; 
and (c) Hebetidentati, based upon a fossil gen us. The .*'////- 
plictdentati are subdivided into the three series of Myo- 
morpha or raurine rodents, Hystricomorpha or hystricine 
rodents, and Sciuromorpha or sciurine rodents, respec- 
tively typified by mice, porcupines, and squirrels. The 
Duplindentati are not subdivided, but are also called La- 
qomorpha, or leporine rodents. The Glires are by far the 
largest order of mammals, and embrace a great number 
of highly diversified animals, all conforming, however, to 
a single type of structure. See Rodentitt. 
2. U. c.] Plural of glis, 1. 
gliriform (glir'i-f6rm), a. [< NL. gliriformis, 
< L. glis (glir-), a dormouse, + forma, shape.] 
1. Resembling the Glires or Bodentia in form; 
having somewhat of the character of a rodent 
mammal. 
Prof. Brandt, of 8t Petersburg, in an elaborate memoir 
just published, arrives at the conclusion that it [Hyrax] 
is a "gliriform Ungulate." Huxley, Anat Vert., p. 367. 
2. Resembling the peculiar teeth of rodents; 
incisiform : as, a gliriform incisor. Gill. 
Gliriformia (glir-i-f 6r'mi-a), n. pi. [NL., pi. of 
gliriformift : see gliriform.^ An order of mam- 
mals : same as Hyracoidea or Lamnunguia. 
Glirina (gli-ri'na), n. pi. [NL., < L. glis (glir-), 
a dormouse : see glis."] 1 . A group of rodents or 
Bodentia. 2. A group of rodent-like marsu- 
pials, corresponding to the family Phascolomy- 
id(e. 
glirine (gli'rin), a. [< L. -glis (glir-), a dor- 
mouse.] 1 . Resembling a dormouse ; myoxine. 
2. Pertaining to the Glires; rodent; roso- 
rial. 
