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glimming

glimming is the present participle and gerund of glim.

Meaning of glim

Verb

glim (third-person singular simple present glims, present participle glimming, simple past and past participle glimmed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
    • Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany.1714, Memoirs of the Right Villainous John Hall
  2. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
  3. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.
    • About 9 o'clock he showed up and he knew me the moment he glimmed me.1918, Tommy West, The Long, Long Trail in the World of Sport

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Questions about glimming

What is glimming the present participle and gerund of?
Glimming is the present participle and gerund of glim.

Words near glimming in the dictionary

  1. glimmerous
  2. glimmers
  3. glimmers of hope
  4. glimmersome
  5. glimmery
  6. glimming
  7. glimms
  8. glimpsable
  9. glimpse
  10. glimpseable
  11. glimpsed

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