shimmer

From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną.

shimmer (third-person singular simple present shimmers, present participle shimmering, simple past and past participle shimmered)

1. (intransitive) To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly
   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson?)

     the shimmering glimpses of a stream

• twinkle, sparkle, glisten, glimmer

shimmer (plural shimmers)

1. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.

• shimmer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• shimmer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.