Definition of "glims" [glims]

• Plural form of glim. (noun)

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• "There are no more "glims" to smash; the old oil _reverbères_ have been replaced by showy gas-lamps, and the _sergents de ville_ would make short work of any roisterers who attempted to take liberties with them."
• "But if he has but the cheapest of transient glims, good and bright enough for its narrow purpose, is it any wonder it burns foul, seeing what business usually it gets to illuminate in these exciting and hurried times."
• "It was welling higher to douse our feeble glims and to founder London, built of shadows on its boundary."