† glimblen.
Obsolete.
A glimmer, a glimpse.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker
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1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid v. 352 I found it by experience how hurtful hot glimbles of shines are to eyes.
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n.1658- to catch sight of
- to catch some z's
- to catch some zeds
- to catch someone in the act
- to catch the air
- to catch the ball before it come to the ground
- to catch the beginning
- to catch the drift
- to catch the eye
- to catch the field
- to catch the sun
- to catch the wrong pig by the ear
- to catch the wrong pig by the tail
- to catch to
- to catch up
- to catch with the foot
- to catch with the goods
- to catch, find, hent, kep, thole, etc, scathe
- to catch, get, lay, lose, seize, hold
- to catch, have, hold, take at a vantage
- to catch, have, hold, take at the vantage
- to catch, have, hold, take at vantage
- to catch, have, hold, take one at a vantage
- to catch, have, hold, take one at the vantage
- to catch, have, hold, take one at vantage