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▪ I. glimmery, a.1|ˈglɪmərɪ|
Also 6 glimrye, 7 glimery.
[f. glimmer n.1 + -y1.]
†a. Of fire: Burning dimly (obs.).
b. Theat. slang. Of an actor: Wanting in definite conception of his part.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 102 When fiers glimrye be listed In clowds grim gloomming with bounce doo terrifye worldlings. 1892Athenæum 9 Apr. 466/3 ‘Mr. Edgar’ is too vague and ‘glimmery’ for the part he has to play.
c. Glimmering. Also advb.
1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 36 A loose glimmery gown of chain-mail. 1907Daily Chron. 4 Mar. 6/4 The marble bust..glimmery white. 1927Blackw. Mag. Mar. 308/2 A great white wall of snow and rock, all glimmery in the rising sun, rose above us. 1953H. H. Price Thinking & Exper. ii. 47 When I see the ice, I..do not infer the coldness from the glimmery look.
▪ II. † ˈglimmery, a.2
In 7 glimery.
[f. glimmer n.2+ -y1.]
Micaceous.
1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. 230 There appertains to the harsh flowing copper Oars, the harsh copper Flint, and what is splendy mispickly glimery or spady. |