subs. (old).—A beggar working with a petition giving out that he is ruined by fire. Also GLIMMERING MORT = a female GLIMMERER.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. GLIMMERER, c., the Twenty-second Rank of the Canting Tribe, begging with Sham Licences, pretending to Losses by Fire, etc.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
