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Meaning of GLIMMERING

Pronunciation:  'glimuring

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  shining softly and intermittently; "the glimmering mist of a spring rain splashed by sun and streaked by rainbow"- Claudia Cassidy; "glimmering candlelight"
 
 Synonyms: bright, glimmery
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Glim"mer*ing\, n.
1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. --South.
2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
 
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