Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Shimmering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shimmering \Shim"mer*ing\, n.
A gleam or glimmering. ``A little shimmering of a light.''
--Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shimmer \Shim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shimmered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Shimmering}.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to
sc[=i]mian, sc[=i]man, to glitter, D. schemeren, G.
schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. sc[=i]ma a light,
brightness, Icel. sk[=i]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.
The shimmering glimpses of a stream. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shimmering
adj : glistening tremulously; "the shimmering surface of the
lake"; "a dress of shimmery satin" [syn: {shimmering(a)},
{shimmery}]
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