glim

noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Brightness; splendour.
2. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.

   “'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your legs if you do!'”

   “"Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.”

   “'Sure enough, they left their glim here,' said the fellow from the window.”

3. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)An eye.
4. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A pair of glasses or spectacles.
5. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A look; a glimpse.
6. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)Gonorrhea.
7. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

   “Tayler Tom lent me a shillin wish I send inklosed and yu must porn sumthing for anuther shilling and get Joe the Loryer to rite a fake for William not a glim (loss by fire) but a brakd say as e ad a hors fell downe with the mad staggurs an broke all is plates and dishes an we are starvin you can sa that the children is got the mesuls[…]”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To brand on the hand.

   “Profligate women were glimm'd for that villany.”

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.”

   “Heibers further states he glimmed the following on Maxwell Street on a Sunday morning[…]”