Middle English Dictionary Entry
shimeren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | shimeren v. Also shemeren. |
| Etymology | OE scimrian, scymrian, scimerian. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To shine, glisten; ppl. shimering, shining, glittering, radiant; also fig.
Associated quotations
- a1250 HMaid.(Tit D.18)21/311 : In heore ring þer godd self, & his deore moder, þe deorewurðe meiden, þe heuenliche cwen, leat i þat eadi trume of schimerinde meidenes.
- a1250 SWard (Tit D.18)25/227 : Al þat hus schineð & schimereð [Bod: schimmeð] of his leome.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)772 : Þat holde..schemered & schon þurȝ þe schyre okez.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)4/69 : Þe bemes of my brighthede are bygged with þe beste; My schewyng es schemerande and schynande.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)483 : Þus as he sat in his sete softly by his qwene, In schene schemerand schroude all of schire stanes.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5592 : Þan bilds he þare a berynes þis beste in-to ligg, Of schene schemerand gold as it a schrine ware.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)4974 : The braunches were borly..frut on yt fourmyt fairest of shap, Of mony kynd þat was kuyt, knagged aboue, Þat shemert as shire as any shene stonys.