glim

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The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

I'll douse the glim and let 'em stay.

From Isle o' Dreams by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

When two substantives of a different signification meet together, the latter is put in the genitive case, as Ulysses lumen Cyclopis extinxit: Ulysses doused the glim of the Cyclops.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John