stime

English

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Alternative forms

styme

Etymology

From Old English scima (“a light”). Compare stymie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /staɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

stime (plural stimes)

(UK, dialect) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.
- 1794, The Har'st Rig:
  To cut their fur, and tak their share O' their nane rig.
  But ony mair? The fient ae stime!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

EMT-Is, Metis, Times, times, metis, setim, MSTie, items, Métis, mites, et sim., e-stim, emits, i-stem, métis, smite, STEMI, METIs

Danish

Noun

stime

school of fish

Declension

Declension of *stime*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stime	stimen	stimer	stimerne
genitive	stimes	stimens	stimers	stimernes

Italian

Noun

stime f

plural of stima

Anagrams

mesti, miste, tmesi

Scots

Alternative forms

styme, stym, steme, stem

Etymology

Attested a. 1500 as styme in the sense "a trace, a whit".^[1] From Middle English stime of unknown origin.^[2] Compare Icelandic skima (“to look, scan”).^[1]

Noun

stime (plural stimes)

(usually negative) a trace of something, something indistinct; the least thing, something slight, a whit
We coudna see a stime.
We could not see a bit.
a glimmer, a glimpse of light

Verb

stime (third-person singular simple present stimes, present participle stimin, simple past stimed, past participle stimed)

to peer, to attempt to see
- 1886, J.J. Haldane Burgess, Shetland Sketches and Poems, page 66:
  I lookit an' stimed inta da black dark.
  I looked and peered into the black darkness.
(transitive) to temporarily blind (someone)
- 1777, John Mayne, The Siller Gun:
  Some clapp'd their guns to the wrang shou'der,
  Where, frae the priming,
  Their cheeks and whiskers got a scowder,
  Their een, a styming!
  Some held their guns to the wrong shoulder, So that, from the primer, Their cheeks and whiskers got burned, Their eyes blinded!

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “styme, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
^ “stime, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

[DOST-1] 1.0 ^1.1 “styme, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

[2] “stime, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

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