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• n  a slight suggestion or vague understanding
• v  shine brightly, like a star or a light

• Investigators have at last got a glimmering of what causes cancer.
• Small enough to grasp with a hand or tuck under the arm, the best of the bunch come with a glimmering faade.
• Momentarily the Polish-Russian rapprochement seemed to go glimmering.

• inkling
• intimation
• glimmer
• gleam

News & Articles

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• A waterfront table: Location is key to finding good outdoor dining
  Location, location, location. Such is the mantra of the real estate world, and it certainly extends to dining alfresco. Yes, we love our rooftop bars and sidewalk cafes, but on a hot summer day, there’s nothing like a gorgeous waterfront view with sailboats bobbing in the distance, the glimmering lights of the Tappan Zee, and — if you’re lucky — a cooling breeze. Here, three area options, boat ...
  July 6, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• John Adams in The Free Lance-Star
  John Adams called those Lees, "That band of brothers, intrepid and unchangeable, who like the Greeks at Thermopylae, stood in the gap in defense of their country, from the first glimmering of the Revolution on the horizon, through all its rising...
• Jimmy Driftwood in MPBN News
  She is fashioned by young Mother Nature and sculpted by Old Father Time,wrote Driftwood. "A painting that hangs on a mountain, glimmering there in the sun, to show that the people have won."
• Christopher Columbus in Gulf Daily News
  Explorer Christopher Columbus wrote in his log that five hours before the discovery of the New World, while patrolling the deck of the Santa Maria at about 10pm, he thought he saw "a light glimmering at a great distance".