English Synonyms.—Blinkers; daylights; deadlights; glaziers; lights;
lamps; ogles; optics; orbs; peepers; sees; squinters; toplights;
windows; winkers.
French Synonyms.—Les quinquets (popular = bright eyes, Vidocq); les
mirettes (popular and thieves’; Italian: mira = sight); les reluits
(thieves’: also daymans—or lightmans [q.v.]); les calots (thieves’ =
marbles); les châsses or les châssis (popular = hunters’); les lampions
(thieves’ = lamps (q.v.); Italian: lanterna and lampante); les apics
(thieves’); les ardents (thieves’ = piercers); les œillets (popular =
eyelets); les lanternes de cabriolet (popular = giglamps); les clignots
(popular = winkers); les carreaux (thieves’ = windows); les clairs
(thieves’ = shiners); les coquards (thieves’).
Italian Synonyms.—Lanterna (= a lamp); calchi; balchi; brunotti (=
brownies); lampante.
Spanish Synonyms.—Fanal (= lantern); lanterna (= idem); visantes
(vulgar); vistosos (vulgar).
German Synonyms.—Dierling (from stieren = to stare); Linzer; Scheinling
(from Schein = daylights (q.v.)).
1824. P. Egan, Boxiana, iv., 417. His glims I’ve made look like a
couple of rainbows.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, p. 47 [ed. 1854]. Queer my glims, if
that ben’t little Paul!
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II., 339. Harold escaped with the
loss of a glim.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 56. A pooty gal, gentle, or
simple, as carn’t use her glims is a flat.