The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glimmer \Glim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Glimmering.] [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.] 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: glimmer)
Usage examples of "glimmered".
Only the white shadow of the snowfields still glimmered, stretching away into the moonless dark, endless and empty as the White Sea.
High above him, the Villa Orlova glimmered in the moonlight among the dark sea-pines.
A medical nanonic package made a broad bracelet around his arm where Jacqueline Couteur had broken the bone and it glimmered dimly in the infrared spectrum.
The fields and forests glimmered and shone under their glace coating of water.
Behind her, Wyman’s ice-fields glimmered under eerie showers of ethereal light.
Industrial stations glimmered around it, static flashing in crazed patterns over external girders and panels, their metallic structures more susceptible to the ionic squalls than bitek polyp.
Out in the cavern the usual yellow-green fields and orchards of spindly trees glimmered under the motley light of the solartubes which studded the axis gantry.
As he knelt beside her, the light tube’s meagre nimbus glimmered on the tears dribbling down her cheeks.
The thriving lights of the south bank glimmered brightly in front of the steel grey clouds smothering the vast arc of the dome.
Here, the long fractures of light beneath their feet glimmered crimson, copper, and azure, intersecting in a continual filigree that melted away into the interior.
Its malign glow glimmered off the geodesic crystal above, turning the struts to a lattice of burnished copper.
Air had gone cool, with a tinge of smoke from the small fires that glimmered in the camp.
However, such a thing muffled sound somewhat, and deserted corridors and rooms stretched between it and the inhabited part, and he had spoken softly, deep in his throat, while tears glimmered on his lashes.
He could not follow, not her nor any of those who glimmered on the rim of memory, not that first and sweetest of all, garlanded with ivy and in her hand a blade of flint.
When he came around its length to the front, the doorway gaped on a nightful cave where a single banked fire glimmered red.