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Shimmer
Shim′mer
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Shimmered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shimmering
.] [OE. ]
schimeren
, AS. scimerian
; akin to scīmian
, scīman
, to glitter, D. schemeren
, G. schimmern
, Dan. skimre
, Sw. skimra
, AS. scīma
a light, brightness, Icel. skīma
, Goth. skeima
a torch, a lantern, and E. shine
. √157. See Shine
, Verb.
I.
To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
The
shimmering
glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.
Shim′mer
,Noun.
A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming
shimmer
through the quiet apartment. Sir W. Scott.