Glimpse
Glimpse , noun
[For glimse, from the root of glimmer.]
1.
A sudden flash; transient luster.
LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.
2.
A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
3.
A faint idea; an inkling.
Glimpse , intransitive verb
to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses. — Drayton
Glimpse , transitive verb
To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.