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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Shimmer \Shim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shimmered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shimmering}.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to sc[c6]mian, sc[c6]man, to glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. sc[c6]ma a light, brightness, Icel. sk[c6]ma, Goth. skeima a torch, a lantern, and E. shine. [root]157. See {Shine}, v. i.] 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Shimmering \Shim"mer*ing\, n. A gleam or glimmering. [bd]A little shimmering of a light.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
