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A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.] Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.

e 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.

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.

eam 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.

A limehound; a limmer. Chaucer.

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.