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glimes

glimes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of glime.

glimes is the plural of glime.

Meaning of glime

Verb

glime (third-person singular simple present glimes, present participle gliming, simple past and past participle glimed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To glance (at); to look sideways.
    • He was gliming at her from closer range now, and in her position—for he held her still—she could not help but glime back. He looked so humble—penitent for once, yet reproachful, his own eyes moist, and, withal, the old, audacious David, that in her own despite her anger waned.1898, Alfred Ollivant, “The Storm Breaks” (chapter XXII), in Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir, London: Methuen & Co., page 212

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Questions about glimes

What is glimes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Glimes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of glime.

Words near glimes in the dictionary

  1. glikes
  2. glim
  3. glime
  4. glimed
  5. glimepiride
  6. glimes
  7. glimflashy
  8. gliming
  9. glimmed
  10. glimmer
  11. glimmer of hope

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