glim

synonyms for glim

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At length Captain Perez rose and, knocking the ashes from his pipe, announced that he was going to "show a glim."

CAP'N ERIJOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN

Lets have a glim, said Sikes, or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog.

The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.

I suspect he would have dowsed his glim in no little hurry if one of his officers had hove in sight.

If you go forward you will see that we have dowsed every glim on board, even to our mast-head and side lights.

I turned up the dull and stinking oil lamp, and tried to read; but that fuliginous glim haunted the pages.

Und vere dere plaze goes vrom her lampVene'er der glim I douse.

The carriage light was feeble, and the faces I saw above me drooped under the glim, wilted and dingy.

WAITING FOR DAYLIGHTHENRY MAJOR TOMLINSON

A blowing sound, and the glim of the candle which was fingering the dusk above, went out; silence reigned.

FIVE TALESJOHN GALSWORTHY

They were now so near the exit that Ned first asked Jack to "douse his glim," and shortly afterwards followed suit himself.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985