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Definition of Shimmer

1. Noun. A weak and tremulous light. "The play of light on the water"

2. Verb. Shine with a weak or fitful light. "The horizon is shimmering with lights"; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight"

3. Verb. Give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk.

Definition of Shimmer

1. v. i. To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

2. n. A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.

Definition of Shimmer

1. Verb. (intransitive) To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer. ¹

2. Noun. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shimmer

1. to glimmer [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: glimmer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shimmer

shillyshally shillyshallying shiloh shilpit shily shimaal shimaals shimadas shimamushi disease shime-waza

shimekomi shimiyana shimmed shimmer (current term) shimmered shimmeriness shimmering shimmeringly shimmers shimmery

shimmey shimmeys shimmied shimmies shimming shimmy shimmy-shammy shimmy on down

Literary usage of Shimmer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lonely Dancer: And Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne (1913)
"... THE shimmer OF THE SOUND IN the long shimmer of the Sound May I some day be laughing found, Part of its restless to and fro, A humble worker of the ..."

2. Color in Everyday Life: A Manual for Lay Students, Artisaus and Artists; the by Louis Weinberg (1918)
"E is yellow in Rimington, it is "pearly blue and shimmer of moonshine" in Scriabin. Differences between Color and Music. One difference between music and ..."

3. Descriptive Portraiture of Europe in Storm and Calm: Twenty Years by Edward King (1888)
"The Volcanic shimmer.—Paris in 1867.—The Second Empire at the ... looks down into the vast bowl of the crater, the delicate shimmer caused by rising heat. ..."

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