Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glimpse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glimpse \Glimpse\, n. [For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]
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.
3. A faint idea; an inkling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glimpse \Glimpse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glimpsed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Glimpsing}.]
to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glimpse \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glimpse
n 1: a quick look [syn: {glance}, {coup d'oeil}]
2: a brief or incomplete view; "from the window he could catch
a glimpse of the lake"
3: a vague indication; "he caught only a glimpse of the
professor's meaning"
v : catch a glimpse of; see briefly
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