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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



... Barbara a tantalizing devil of desire to know the feelings that really lay behind that deferential gravity, to make him show her how much he really cared. She kept her eyes demurely lowered, but she let the glimmer of a smile flicker about her lips; she knew too that her cheeks were glowing, and for that she was not sorry. Was she not to have any—any—was he calmly to go away—without——And she thought: "He shall say something! ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... "that you are to be ready with your tow ropes. As he secures each canoe he will pass it along to me. You will be able to see its outlines by the dim glimmer of the fire. But how will you manage about the dog? He may ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... at this flat contradiction between mistress and servant, while a faint glimmer of the truth began to dawn upon her. The "horn-bug" being disposed of, 'Lina became quiet, and might, perhaps, have taken up Hugh again, but for a timely interruption in the shape of Irving Stanley, who had walked up to the Columbian, and seeing 'Lina and her mother through the window, ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... uninteresting for the very reason that made it most interesting to Redclyffe, because it had stood there such a weary while. It was too common an object to excite in his mind, as it did in Redclyffe's, visions of the long ago time when it was founded, when mass was first said there, and the glimmer of torches at the altar was seen through the vista of that broad-browed porch; and of all the procession of villagers that had since gone in and come out during nine hundred years, in their varying costume and fashion, but yet—and ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... club-dinner, and was relative to which of the two had the largest quantity of game on his estates. Infuriated by wine and passion, they retired instantly into an adjoining room, and fought with swords across a table, by the feeble glimmer of a tallow-candle. Mr. Chaworth, who was the more expert swordsman of the two, received a mortal wound, and shortly afterwards expired. Lord Byron was brought to trial for the murder before the House of ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay


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