| Shimmer | n. A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer. [ 1913 Webster ] TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet apartment. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Shimmer | v. 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, v. i. ] To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. [ 1913 Webster ] The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ] |