glim

Meanings

Noun

• brightness; splendour
• A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
• An eye.
• A pair of glasses or spectacles.
• A look; a glimpse.
• Gonorrhea
• Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

Verb

• To brand on the hand.
• To illuminate.
• To see; to observe.

Origin

• From Middle English glim, glimme, of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.