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Glimmering or imperfect Bp. Warburton.

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
IMPERFECT
1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
IMPERFECTIBLE
Incapable of being mad perfect.
IMPERFECTIBILITY
The state or quality of being imperfectible.
IMPERFECTNESS
The state of being imperfect.
IMPERFECTION
The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak. Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness;
PRETERIMPERFECT
Old name of the tense also called imperfect.
AGLIMMER
In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.
FUNGI IMPERFECTI
A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.