glisten

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  1. intransitive verb To shine by reflection with a sparkling luster. See Synonyms at flash.
  2. noun A sparkling, lustrous shine.

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  • How their dark eyes glisten, and their little hearts swell, while they catch each word of life as it falls from her lips to find an echo in their souls! —  The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
  • A powerful turn, putting distance between myself and Sam again. —  An Autobiography
  • But, before he drifted off to sleep, still sitting in the chair, he saw once more, with unwanted vividness, a single tear glisten - ing in the moonlight. —  Time of the Twins
  • He turns westward, where the high, hazy clouds begin to glisten orange and pink to herald the sun's disappearance into the sea beyond the western slopes. —  The Towers of the Sunset
  • My angels appeared to glisten, and to grow brilliantly white and deep blue in their robes. —  Vittorio, The Vampire
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English glisnen, from Old English glisnian; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also glissen; from Middle English glistnen, from Anglo-Saxon glisnian, glisten, shine; with verb-formative -n, from the base glis-, seen also in Anglo-Saxon glisian, Middle English glisien, shine, glissen, glance: see gliss. Cf. glist, glister.
  2. from glisten, v.
 

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