Glimpse (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimpsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Glimpsing.] to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. Drayton.
Glimpse, v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a
short or hurried view of.
Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.
Chaucer.
Glint (?), n. [OE. glent.] A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw
a glint of light." Ramsay.
Glint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting.] [OE.
glenten. Cf. Glance, v. i., Glitter, v. i.] To glance; to peep forth,
as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns.
Glint, v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.
||Gli*o"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; glue + -oma.] (Med.) A tumor
||springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain,
||spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
||Gli"res (?), n. pl. [L., dormice.] (Zoˆl.) An order of mammals; the
||Rodentia. -- Gli"rine (#), a.
||Glis`sade" (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] A sliding, as down a
||snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.
Glis*san"do (?), n. & a. [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.) A
gliding effect; gliding.
||Glis*sette" (?), n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.] (Math.) The locus
||described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on
||another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any
||instant.
Glist (?), n. [From Glisten.] Glimmer; mica.
Glis"ten (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Glistening (?).] [OE. glistnian, akin to glisnen, glisien, AS. glisian,
glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See Glitter, v. i., and cf. Glister, v.
i.] To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and
fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the
glistening stars.
Syn. -- See Flash.
Glis"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Glistering.] [OE. glistren; akin to G. glistern,glinstern, D.
glinsteren, and E. glisten. See Glisten.] To be bright; to sparkle; to
be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
All that glisters is not gold.
Shak.
Glis"ter, n. Glitter; luster.
Glis"ter, n. [Cf. OF. glistere.] Same as Clyster.
Glis"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a glistering manner.
Glit"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glittered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Glittering.] [OE. gliteren; akin to Sw. glittra, Icel. glitra, glita,
AS. glitenian, OS. gltan, OHG. glzzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan,
and also to E. glint, glisten, and prob. glance, gleam.]
1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or
showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
Dryden.
2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the
glittering scenes of a court.
Syn. -- To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See
Gleam, Flash.
Glit"ter, n. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster;
brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
Milton.
Glit"ter*and (?), a. Glittering. [Obs.] Spenser.
Glit"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a glittering manner.