glim

What was a "glim," and what did the fellow suggest by silver plate?

Them hot-headed Kentuckians, y' know, they'd dowse a feller's glim for less 'n that.

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

Rokeby looked at her with an astonished respect and a glim of his saving humour.

"Sure enough, they left their glim here," said the fellow from the window.

"Do top that glim, Bill," said one of the men, in a tremulous voice.

“Do top that glim, Bill,” said one of the men, in a tremulous voice.

Glim lurk, a begging paper, giving a circumstantial account of a dreadful fire—which never happened.

Mr. Glim, the curate, calls occasionally, but the Swancourts don't come into the village now any more than to drive through it.

Bruck two searchlights at one hundred dollars a glim, but that's nothin'.