To shoot feeble or scattered rays of light; as the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. When rosy morning glimmer’d o’er the dales. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

To shine faintly; to give a feeble light. Mild evening glimmered on the lawn.

A faint light; feeble scattered rays of light.

In mineralogy, mica, glist, muscovy-glass; a mineral resulting from crystallization, but rarely found in regular crystals. usually it appears in thin, flexible, elastic lamins, which exhibit a high polish and strong luster. It is an essential ingredient in granite, gneiss, and mica slate.