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Bit of illumination
Answer for the clue "Bit of illumination ", 4 letters:
glim
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
18c. slang, "a light, candle, lantern;" 19c. slang "an eye," probably a back-formation from glimmer .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
GLIM (an acronym for Generalized Linear Interactive Modelling) is a statistical software program for fitting generalized linear models (GLMs). It was developed by the Royal Statistical Society's Working Party on Statistical Computing (later renamed the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context slang English) A light, candle, lantern. 2 (context slang English) An eye. 3 (context obsolete English) brightness; splendour
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glim \Glim\, n. Brightness; splendor. [Obs.] A light or candle. [Slang] --Dickens. Douse the glim , put out the light. [Slang]
Usage examples of glim.
With any luck at all, you will never focus your glims upon Miss Ames, no matter how illustrious her fortune, or by virtue of whatever scheme your papa and her papa concocted so many years ago.
I now took my rest, when I rested, Bex told me that the glims had taken her father.
Her father again insisted he was going back into town, but Bex told him the glims were looking for him.
My glim showed me the keyhole, and I cut the lock, which was mortised into the thickness of the door, clean away, taking a square which gave ample margin beyond the edges of the lock.
Jack to Stephen some time later, when the ship could be allowed a glim behind her deadlights and the dark-lanterns were put out.
Glims in paper holders shed light on hundreds of men and doxies and quite a few children scampering about.
We start toward them, the rest of the Tels allowing Glim and me a chance to absorb the scenery.
I was seeing whether m'lead was getting hot, and I heard 'em call to douse the glim, an'—.
Even the unsettled tertiaries had lights erected along them, though the lights barely glim mered, and the land itself had long since been claimed on speculation toward the time when even those minuscule intersections would be capped and lowered.