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. Shak.
A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson.
Mica. See Mica. Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.
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