stime

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 by 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] Old English scima (“shine; light”).

Noun

stime (plural stimes)

(chiefly in the 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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