n. 1. Brightness; splendor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A light or candle. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

Douse the glim, put out the light. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glimmered p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering. ] [ Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse. ] To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak.

Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mica. See Mica. Woodsward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glimmer gowk, an owl. [ Prov. Eng. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. shining softly and intermittently.
Syn. -- glimmering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ For glimse, from the root of glimmer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sudden flash; transient luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen. S. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A faint idea; an inkling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glimpsed p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing. ] to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some glimpsing and no perfect sight. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]