Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glimmering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glimmering \Glim"mer*ing\, n.
1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. --South.
2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glimmer \Glim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glimmered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Glimmering}.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling
light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly,
glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See
{Gleam} a ray, and cf. {Glimpse}.]
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly;
to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a
glimmering lamp.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. --Shak.
Syn: To gleam; to glitter. See {Gleam}, {Flash}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glimmering
adj : shining softly and intermittently; "the glimmering mist of a
spring rain splashed by sun and streaked by rainbow"-
Claudia Cassidy; "glimmering candlelight" [syn: {glimmery}]
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