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Aglimmer
Aglimmer A*glim"mer, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + glimmer.] In a glimmering state. --Hawthorne.
glimmer
Mica Mi"ca, n. [L. mica crumb, grain, particle; cf. F. mica.] (Min.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer. Note: The important species of the mica group are: muscovite, common or potash mica, pale brown or green, often silvery, including damourite (also called hydromica); biotite, iron-magnesia mica, dark brown, green, or black; lepidomelane, iron, mica, black; phlogopite, magnesia mica, colorless, yellow, brown; lepidolite, lithia mica, rose-red, lilac. Mica (usually muscovite, also biotite) is an essential constituent of granite, gneiss, and mica slate; biotite is common in many eruptive rocks; phlogopite in crystalline limestone and serpentine. Mica diorite (Min.), an eruptive rock allied to diorite but containing mica (biotite) instead of hornblende. Mica powder, a kind of dynamite containing fine scales of mica. Mica schist, Mica slate (Geol.), a schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar.
Glimmer
Glimmer Glim"mer, n. 1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. --Tennyson. 2. Mica. See Mica. --Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] --Tennyson.
Glimmer
Glimmer Glim"mer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.] To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. --Shak. Syn: To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.
Glimmer gowk
Glimmer Glim"mer, n. 1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. --Tennyson. 2. Mica. See Mica. --Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] --Tennyson.
Glimmered
Glimmer Glim"mer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.] To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. --Shak. Syn: To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.
Glimmering
Glimmering Glim"mer*ing, n. 1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. --South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
Glimmering
Glimmer Glim"mer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.] To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. --Shak. Syn: To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.
Limmer
Limmer Lim"mer (-m[~e]r), a. Limber. [Obs.] --Holland.
Limmer
Limmer Lim"mer, n. [F. limier. See Leamer.] 1. A limehound; a leamer. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound. 3. A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.] Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands. --Sir W. Scott. 4. (Naut.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.
Slimmer
Slim Slim, a. [Compar. Slimmer; superl. Slimmest.] [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been influenced by slender.] 1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. ``That was a slim excuse.' --Barrow. 3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree. --Grose.
Slimmest
Slim Slim, a. [Compar. Slimmer; superl. Slimmest.] [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim; akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been influenced by slender.] 1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. ``That was a slim excuse.' --Barrow. 3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree. --Grose.

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- British Museum. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Limme.pdf>. Limme, Luc. "Elkab, 1937–2007: Seventy Years of Belgian Archaeological Research...
- the Chinese juniper family, and is technically named Juniperus Chinensi Limme. The height is 12.5 m and the cir****ference is 3.98m. The tree is about...
- Lantonnois van Rode Leman Lepage Le Mayeur de Merprès Lequime Limme van Overloop, Limme d'Altena Limpens Linard de Guertechin Errembault du Maisnil et...
- Stan; Claes, Wouter (eds.). Elkab and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Luc Limme (in French). Leuven: Peeters. pp. 545–557. ISBN 9789042922396. Kaiser, Jessica;...
- decreasing based on clinical judgement of laboratory values.[citation needed] Limme, B.; Dresse, M.-F.; Ketelslegers, O.; Rigo, V.; Hoyoux, C. (2008). "La pyknocytose...
- with a foule leperye; his second sonne very marvellously deformed of his limmes and made decrepit; his younger sonne in a small puddel was strangled and...
- ancient stream that ran through the village centre. The village appears as "Limme" in the Domesday Book of 1086. Lymm was an agricultural village until the...
- in Saxo's Latin translation of Bjarkamál in Gesta Danorum. Limme Middle High German: Limme The etymology is uncertain; possibly from MHG limmen ("to growl...
- Égypte. Inventaire des antiquités rapportées au Musée du Louvre, in Luc Limme, Jan Strybol: Aegyptus Museis rediviva. Miscellanea in honorem Hermanni...
- French). Bruxelles: Fondation égyptologique reine Élisabeth. OCLC 7451653. Limme, Luc (2008). "Elkab, 1937-2007: seventy years of Belgian archaeological...