SHIMMERING

Verb

shimmering

present participle of shimmer

Noun

shimmering (plural shimmerings)

A gleam or glimmer.

Anagrams

• reshimming

Source: Wiktionary

Shim"mer*ing, n.

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

SHIMMER

Shim"mer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Shimmering.] Etym: [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to scimian, sciman, to glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. scima a light, brightness, Icel. skima, Goth. skeima a torch, a lantern, and E. shine. sq. root157. See Shine, v. i.]

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

Shim"mer, n.

Definition: A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer. TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet apartment. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition