Word Meanings - GLIMMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak. Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash. (more
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To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak. Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash. (more info) glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly, glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D.
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- FALTER
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell. - WAVERER
One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - GLIMMERING
1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling. - HOIST
To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne. - EXALTMENT
Exaltation. Barrow. - HOISTAWAY
A mechanical lift. See Elevator. - HOISTWAY
An opening for the hoist, or - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - FLUTTER
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak. - FLICKERMOUSE
See FLITTERMOUSE - WAVERINGLY
In a wavering manner. - INCREASEMENT
Increase. Bacon. - WAVERINGNESS
The quality or state of wavering. - FLICKER
1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro. - AGGRANDIZE
1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott. - EXALTATE
Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet. Chaucer. - QUIVERED
1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - AFLICKER
In a flickering state. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.