glim
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The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim.
From Time Magazine Archive
Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.
From Time Magazine Archive
When two substantives of a different signification meet together, the latter is put in the genitive case, as Ulysses lumen Cyclopis extinxit: Ulysses doused the glim of the Cyclops.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
We goes up to the second floor and turns on the glim in the front office.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
"Douse your glim, mate; we'll be having them Zeppelins all over us."
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 by Various
