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Glimmer   /glˈɪmər/   Listen
noun
Glimmer  n.  
1.
A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. "Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls."
2.
Mica. See Mica.
Glimmer gowk, an owl. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Glimmer  v. i.  (past & past part. glimmered; pres. part. glimmering)  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."
Synonyms: To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.





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"Glimmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... people in the room. He wondered if one might not be Hauptmann Schneider, for two of them were captains. The girl he judged to be of the intelligence department—a spy. Her beauty held no appeal for him—without a glimmer of compunction he could have wrung that fair, young neck. She was German and that was enough; but he had other and more important work before him. He wanted ...
— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... years; youth is one-eyed; and in those days, though I haunted the breakwater by day, and even loved the place for the sake of the sunshine, the thrilling seaside air, the wash of waves on the sea-face, the green glimmer of the divers' helmets far below, and the musical chinking of the masons, my one genuine pre-occupation lay elsewhere, and my only industry was in the hours when I was not on duty. I lodged with a certain Bailie Brown, a carpenter by ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... suspended at regular intervals. This is the shimenawa, sacred emblem of Shinto. Within the consecrated space inclosed by it no blight may enter—no scorching sun wither the young shoots. And where the white arrows glimmer the locust shall not prevail, nor shall hungry birds ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... grasp fell ignored the fact that Elizabeth could not name her, and gaily held up the handkerchief to be tied over her own eyes in turn. Nobody caught Olga again. She was as quick as a flash and as slippery as an eel. Elizabeth's eyes followed her constantly, and a little glimmer of a smile touched her lips as Olga slipped safely out of reach of one catcher ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
... was deck'd at morning-tide, The tapers glimmer'd fair; The priest and bridegroom wait the bride, And dame and knight are there: They sought her baith by bower and ha'; The ladie was not seen! She's o'er the Border, and ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various


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