inkling, intimation, glimmering, glimmer
(noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding; “he had no inkling what was about to happen”
gleam, gleaming, glimmer
(noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light)
gleam, glimmer
(verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light
Source: WordNet® 3.1
glimmer (plural glimmers)
A faint light; a dim glow.
A flash of light.
A faint or remote possibility.
(dated) mica
• (flash of light): sparkle
glimmer (third-person singular simple present glimmers, present participle glimmering, simple past and past participle glimmered)
(intransitive) To shine with a faint, unsteady light.
• (shine with faint unsteady light): flicker, shimmer, twinkle
Source: Wiktionary
Glim"mer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] Etym: [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.]
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.
Glim"mer, n.
1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson.
2. Mica. See Mica. Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
