Glimpse

n. [D. glimpen and glimmen, to shine faintly. See supra.] 1. A sudden flash; a momentary ray; transient luster. Like as the lightning's glimpse they ran. Milton. 2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. Here hid by shrub-wood, there by glimpses seen. Rogers.

To appear by glimpses. Drayton.

v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.