GLIMMER, GLIMMERING
ADJECTIVES
► CREPUSCULOUS of the nature of twilight; in a state between light and darkness; dim, glimmering, dusky, indistinct, obscure → 1646
► LEVINING gleaming, glimmering, flickering → a1340 obs.
NOUNS
► BLINK the smallest glimmer of light; a spark of fire → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GLIMBLE a glimmer, a glimpse → 1658 obs.
VERBS
► BLENK to shine; to glimmer; to wink → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLICKER to shine intermittently, to flicker, to glimmer → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BLINK to shine, to gleam; to twinkle, to glimmer, to flicker → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLINT to shed a feeble or glimmering light → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► LEMYRE to glimmer → c1435 obs.
► SIMPER to glimmer, to twinkle → c1620 obs.
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