rare. [Onomatopœic; cf. glimmer, flicker and Ger. flimmern.] intr. To burn unsteadily.

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1880.  T. E. Webb, trans. Goethe’s Faust, IV. xix.

        Upwards the lamp’s eternal light doth flimmer,
And flickers sideways with a feeble shimmer.

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