v.
shine faintly with a wavering light.
n.
- a faint or wavering light.
- a faint sign of a feeling or quality:
a glimmer of hope.
Derivative
- glimmering adj. & n.
- glimmeringly adv.
Etymology
ME: prob. of Scand. origin; rel. to Swed. glimra and Dan. glimre.