A sudden flash; transient luster. LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton.
A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen. S. Rogers.
A faint idea; an inkling.
to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.
To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of. Some glimpsing and no perfect sight. Chaucer.
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