Glimpse /(?)/

1. A sudden flash; transient luster.

   LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.

2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.

   Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.

3. A faint idea; an inkling.

imp. & p. p. Glimpsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimpsing

1. to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

1. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

   Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.