Sekirov Dictionary

gleam

/ɡliːm/

noun 6
verb 4
forms 6

noun6

•
An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
- Is not yon gleame, the shuddering morne that flakes, / VVith siluer tinctur, the east vierge of heauen? — 1599
•
(figurative) An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
- The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.
(figurative) A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
•
(figurative) A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
- [H]is black visage lighted up with a curious, mischievous gleam. — 1851
•
Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
- Then vvas the faire Dodonian tree far seene, / Vpon seauen hills to spread his gladsome gleame, / And conquerours bedecked vvith his greene, / Along the bancks of the Ausonian streame: […] — 1591
(no longer used) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.

verb4

Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
•
To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
- Quick to redeem the Prey their plighted Lords / Advance, the Palace gleams vvith shining Svvords. — 1700
(figurative) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
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(no longer used) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
- Gleam, a term used after a hawk hath cast and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge. — 1800

forms

gleamed · gleamedst · gleaming · gleameth · gleams · gleamest

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