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

A glimpse or glance. This is the first blink that ever I had of him. Bp. Hall.

e in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

rs, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.

Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance. Some distant knowledge. Shak. A distant glimpse. W. Irving.

A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.

A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. Transient unexpected gleams of joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.

A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

A hint; an intimation. The least inkling or glimpse of this island. Bacon. They had some inkling of secret messages. Clarendon.

he observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion.

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

A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A glimpse or flash of the sun. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A glimpse; a hasty view. [Prov. Eng.]