ashimmer

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ shimmer.

Adjective

ashimmer (not comparable)

1. Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
   • 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65,^[1]

     […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.

   • 1898, Henry Noel Brailsford, chapter 11, in The Broom of the War-God,‎^[2], London: Heinemann, page 130:

     The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.

   • 1941, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind‎^[3], New York: Oxford University Press, published 1952, Book 2, Chapter 12:

     The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light.

   • 2001, Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon,‎^[4], Boston: Beacon Press, page 52:

     resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate

Anagrams

• haremism