glim

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Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I turned up the dull and stinking oil lamp, and tried to read; but that fuliginous glim haunted the pages.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

A light; familiarly used for the eyes.—Dowse the glim, put out the light.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The carriage light was feeble, and the faces I saw above me drooped under the glim, wilted and dingy.

From Waiting for Daylight by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)