Shimmering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shimmer \Shim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shimmered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Shimmering}.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to
     sc[imac]mian, sc[imac]man, to glitter, D. schemeren, G.
     schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. sc[imac]ma a light,
     brightness, Icel. sk[imac]ma, Goth. skeima a torch, a
     lantern, and E. shine. [root]157. See {Shine}, v. i.]


     To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine
     faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
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           The shimmering glimpses of a stream.     --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shimmering \Shim"mer*ing\, n.
     A gleam or glimmering. "A little shimmering of a light."
     --Chaucer.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "shimmering":
     blink, blinking, blinky, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation,
     firefly, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten,
     glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery,
     glowworm, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation,
     scintillescent, shimmer, shimmery, spangle, spangly, spark,
     sparkle, sparkling, stroboscopic light, tinsel, tinselly, twinkle,
     twinkling, twinkly