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shimmer

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shimmer is the second album by Surgery , released on April 5, 1994 through Atlantic Records .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer. vb. (context intransitive English) To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scimerian "to glitter, shimmer, glisten, shine," related to (perhaps a frequentative of) scimian "to shine," from Proto-Germanic *skim- (cognates: Swedish skimra , Dutch schemeren "to glitter," German schimmern ), from PIE root *skai- "to gleam, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water" [syn: play ] v. shine with a weak or fitful light; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight" give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

Usage examples of shimmer.

They crossed a noble old bridge with seven spans, water sparkling and shimmering below, and passed under the archway of the ring wall.

Then an astoundingly beautiful young woman emerged through the bead curtain, which shimmered and danced behind her as she descended the steps.

There were shimmering gleams of pearly white and ivory yellow, under beardy trails of moss old as the marble out of which it grew.

Naturally everyone in the lobby took note of us-not because we were blood-sucking immortals bent on destroying two of our kind on the fifteenth floor, but because we were exceedingly and severely gorgeous, especially Mona, wrapped in feathers and shimmering fabric and poised atop a pair of breakneck heels.

Beauty had planted there spilt over the corners of the beds at their feet, and the roses bloomed everywhere round them, silhouetted in the faint light, and the white roses were shimmers in the gloom.

She wanted freedom, a wide horizon, the great winds, the great sun, the terrible spaces, the glowing, shimmering radiance, the hot, entrancing moons and bloomy, purple nights of Africa.

Whatever it was that he had added to the band continued to augment all the music for all the subsequent acts, with jingles, rat-a-tats, hollow clunks, brassy clashes and strange, unearthly shimmers of sound.

House had won, that his hopes were satisfied, that the Buller crowd had been routed, that the cup would shimmer on the mantelpiece.

Ceratopetalums and burrawangs, and across the shimmering surface of the lake above the now hazy sand-dunes and beach to the wide, flat, blue sea, met the admiring gaze of the men.

It had swept out and up and back, flying slowly and quietly, turning its wings a drab camouflaged dun, hiding out against the clouds, to pounce now, appearing in a sudden burst of dark colours, a shimmering slick of hypnagogic patterns.

It was so beautiful at times it took your breath away - saltbush, bluebush, a whole world of native shrubs and grasses, all tough enough to exist in the harsh arid heat of this outback country, and the mallee and the ghost gums shimmering their leaves in the wind, shading the ground from the sun.

Her stilled quiet stayed absolute, the linen mantled over her as freezing white as the shimmer off a distant ice field.

Between the slope and the gleaming curve of the river the marshland shimmered in heat-haze, distorting the shapes of the men who laboured at the ditches and the tall column of the siege tower the Emperor had ordered brought in so that he could observe their progress.

It resembled a giant mastiff with black-crusted fangs and a shimmering coat of maggots.

Her garment: it was of the shimmering silver micromesh of Unbreakable Continuity.