Synonyms:
shimmer, play
Meaning: a weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water"
Usage examples
The mist and shimmer of early spring were in the air.
I shall carry my park up the hillside and plant on the highest point some pretty kiosque, whence, perhaps, my eyes may catch the shimmer of the Mediterranean.
It was not the light of the sun, with his dazzling shafts of brightness and the splendour of his rays; nor was it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a nobler body of light.