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▪ I. ˈflickering, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. flicker in various senses.
c1440Promp. Parv. 165/2 Flekerynge of byrdys, volitacio. Flekerynge, or wauerynge yn an vnstable hert, vacillacio. 1527Prose Life St. Brandan (Percy Soc.) 40 He [the Byrde] with flykerynge of his wynges made a full mery noyse. 1776J. Adams Fam. Lett. (1876) 175 The newspapers..will inform you of public affairs, and the particular flickerings of parties in this colony. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xliv, A flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering. 1875Lanier Poems, Symphony 156 Fern-wavings and leaf-flickerings. 1883Gd. Words July 469/1 What a flickering of mellowed sunlight comes over the eyes. 1968Times 18 Apr. 2/8 A boy's susceptibility to the flickering of a television set led to his death.
▪ II. flickering, ppl. a.|ˈflɪkərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That flickers, in senses of the vb.
1. Of a bird: That flutters or hovers.
1531Latimer Let. Baynton in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 1328/1 Howe manye Larkes for a penye, yf euerye Starre in the Elemente were a flyckeringe hobye. 1664Floddan F. i. 5 Flickering fame that monstrous wight With hundred wings wapping was blown. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. iii. Wks. 1834 II. 209 The bat shrill shrieking woo'd his flickering mate.
†2. Caressing, coaxing, seducing. Obs.
a1536Calisto & Melib. A iij b Theyre [women's] fals intents & flykkeryng smylyng. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. (Arb.) 110 The peruerse and malicyous flickeringe inticementes of lewde and vnhoneste desyres. 1607R. Niccols Cuckoo 198 Their chambring fortitude they did descrie By their soft maiden voice and flickeringe eie. a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary iii. i. (1651) 36, I am not any flickering thing: I cannot boast of that slight-fading gift You men call beauty.
†3. Changeable, unreliable, unsteady, wavering.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. x, The enuious ordre of fortunat meuinge, In worldly thynge false and flikerynge. 1465Marg. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 502 II. 183 Pyrs Waryn..whych ys a flykeryng felowe and a besy. 1586in Bibliographer (1882) I. 75 All flickering wealth which flies in firmest hope. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. x. §5 (1622) 109 A weake and a flickring opinion. a1763Shenstone Price Equipage 25 To keep a race of flickering knaves, He grows himself the worst of slaves.
4. Quivering, vibrating unsteadily.
1580Sidney Arcadia ii. (1638) 221 He..hopes the flickering wind with net to hold. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 66 Vnlesse the Wines happen to haue a flickering Lee. 1757Dyer Fleece iv. 37 Rising o'er the flick'ring wave. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xx, A keen and furtive glance of her flickering eyes. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. ii. 44 The lark sends down his flickering lay. 1887Baring-Gould Gaverocks x. in Cornh. Mag. Mar. 229, I have seen a gilder blow the flickering sheet into the air.
5. That shines with, or is illuminated by, an unsteady or wavering light.
1605Shakes. Lear (1st Qo 1608) ii. ii. 114 Whose influence like the wreath of radient fire In flitkering [1623 flicking] Phœbus front. 1791Earl of Buchan Ess., Lett. Imitation Ancients (1812) 99 The..flickering rays of the departing light. 1865Swinburne Atalanta 1894, I see..Flushed pillars down the flickering vestibule. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. ii. 623 In the chamber burned The flickering candles.
Hence ˈflickeringly adv., in a flickering manner.
1840Tait's Mag. VII. 714 One moment, flickeringly, it shone. 1878H. S. Wilson Alp. Ascents i. 12 The ruddy light glistening flickeringly upon the black rock. |