stime

English

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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

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

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