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The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.

A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

A gleam or glimmering. "A little shimmering of a light." Chaucer.

A chemise. [Colloq.]

Sophism. [Obs.] I trow ye study aboute some sophime. Chaucer.

es used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).

Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: --

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.

A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.

One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows. [Prov. Eng.]

city; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice. Let every man enjoy his whim. Churchill.

urlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix. Hudsonian or, Eskimo, whimbreal, the Hudsonian curlew.

One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child. Go, whimling, and fetch two or three grating loaves. Beau. & Fl.

Full of whims; whimsical. The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so. Coleridge.

To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers. Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him Latimer.