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The state or quality of being flimsy.

Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection. Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Pope. All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

Same as Foumart.

ibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture. Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. Walpole.

Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias.

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King.

A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens. Douse the glim, put out the light. [Slang]

e or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak.

Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.

A sudden flash; transient luster. LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton.

An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.

A garment; an article of clothing. Camden.

Clothed. Taylor (1630).

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]

Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.

Not limited; interminable. Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.

Affording no aliment or nourishment. [Obs.] Bacon.

Jollity. [Obs.] Spenser.

The millionth part of a meter.