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A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse. Halliwell.

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• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• GLIMMERING
  1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
• GLIMMER
  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. (more
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• GLEAM
  To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
• GLIMPSE
  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
• GLEAMY
  Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.
• SLIGHTY
  Slight. Echard.
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.
• SLIGHTFUL
  See SLEIGHTFUL
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• SLIGHTING
  Characterized by neglect or disregard.
• AGLEAM
  Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.
• GASLIGHT
  1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. 2. A gas jet or burner.
• AGLIMMER
  In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.
• FOREGLEAM
  An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.
• MISLIGHT
  To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.