glim

Meanings

1. Brightness; splendour.
2. A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
3. An eye.
4. A pair of glasses or spectacles.
5. A look; a glimpse.
6. Gonorrhea.
7. Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

1. To brand on the hand.
2. To illuminate.
3. To see; to observe.

Etymology

From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.