0 to shine in such a way that the light seems to shake slightly and quickly: --
She could see her reflection in the water, shimmering in the moonlight.
1 the fact that something shimmers --
They are a common cause of grass fires as the heat they expel is hot enough to cause the air around them to shimmer.
Coloration is generally subdued yet complex; under bright lighting, their feathers shimmer with iridescent brilliance.
Seventh and ninth chords shimmer more than on a guitar due to the close harmonies.
The line has on it at about one-metre intervals a hook so designed that it oscillates in the water, causing a sort of shimmer.
Her gown had a pattern of colors, but it was not woven; it shimmered, dazzling the eyes, and was indescribable it was not of this world.
The rigour of the geometric composition, which incorporates the principles of the contemporary treatises on perspective, is tempered by an atmospheric rendering of the light with its silvery shimmers.
The sun gleams over the vast sands and sends a myriad of colors into the dawn and evening skies as a rainbow shimmers across the dunes.
The process is reversed when teleported to the ship: a field surrounds the subject, the subject fades, the field suddenly expands, and the subject shimmers back into the teleport bay.
