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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shimmer \Shim"mer\, noun 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shimmer \Shim"mer\, verb (used without an object) [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}, verb (used without an object)] 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) 2.0 [wn]:
shimmer
noun: a weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water" [syn: {play}]
verb
1: shine with a weak or fitful light; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight"
2: give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "shimmer": blink, blinking, coruscate, coruscation, firefly, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glint, glisk, glisten, glister, glitter, glittering, gloss, glow, glowworm, light, ripple, scintilla, scintillate, scintillation, shimmering, shine, spangle, spark, sparking, sparkle, stroboscopic light, tinsel, twinkle, twinkling
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