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1. A sudden flash; transient luster. "LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran." (Milton)
2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. "Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen." (S. Rogers)
Origin: For glimse, from the root of glimmer.
(01 Mar 1998)
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