What is "dim."

Usage examples of "dim.".

Had that word of hope grown dim? Why, my Philip had fulfilled it, And I loved it best in him!

Some strange old chant, or solemn Latin hymn, That echoed through the old cathedral dim, When as a little child each day she went To kneel and pray by an old tomb in Ghent.

Coward, can she reign and conquer If we thus her glory dim? Let us fight for her as nobly As our fathers fought for him.

And yet--our eyes are dim, And thine are keener far - Then gaze till thou canst see The glimmer of some star.

She stands, the Future dim, And draws me on, And shows me dearer joys - But thou art gone!

I could almost hear the organ Peal alone the arches dim. As I watched the wreathed pillars, Groves of stately palms arose, And a group of swarthy Indians Stealing on some sleeping foes.