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le 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.

Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.

In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.

To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

leam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

Glimmer; mica.

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] Chaucer.

s of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.

Glimmering or imperfect [R.] Bp. Warburton.

shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

A gleam or glimmering. "A little shimmering of a light." Chaucer.

To glimmer; to twinkle. [Obs.] Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine. Herbert.

A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

nd or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.