Shimmer

Definition of Shimmer

Shim´mer
v. i.1.To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
[imp. & p. p. Shimmered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shimmering.]
The shimmering glimpses of a stream.
- Tennyson.
n.1.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.

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