glim
(archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
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(archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
"Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.
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(archaic, slang) An eye.
'Sure enough, they left their glim here,' said the fellow from the window.
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(obsolete) Brightness; splendour.
'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'
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Old-school slang for eyes. The word belongs to a rich tradition of colourful underworld and thieves' cant vocabulary that flourished in 17th- and 18th-century Britain, though it occasionally pops up in fiction, poetry, or theatrical dialogue even today. Calling someone's eyes their glimms conjures a sense of their gleam or glimmer — the word is evocative in a way clinical alternatives aren't. Writers going for a vintage, noir, or theatrical register sometimes reach for it.
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