Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In momentary glints or peeps; glintingly.

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  • adjective Glinting.

Etymologies

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a- +‎ glint

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Examples

  • "I hope it'll be like the Plaza Hotel," he says, brown eyes aglint.

    Back In Black Maureen Farrell 2010

  • "I hope it'll be like the Plaza Hotel," he says, brown eyes aglint.

    Back In Black Maureen Farrell 2010

  • Her cap, perched precariously, was sliding off, while her flying hair, aglint in the sunshine, framed her face as he had seen it framed on the Dyea

    CHAPTER 25 2010

  • Smiling brightly at this tribute, Sissy continued to look about the ballroom, her eyes aglint with excitement.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • At precisely that time, young Von Ribbentrop entered the school art competition with an atrocious triptych depicting ancient Germans encamped before a blazing dawn, their horned helmets silhouetted against the red and mauve of the empyrean, while the breastplates of the flaxen-haired women were aglint with hateful optimism.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • She danced to the flowers in her hand, to the trees, the sky, her face aglint with changing smiles, her skirts rippling like water.

    The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

  • It might have been the scene of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as I made my way through thickets all aglint with the first green of the spring's foliage, treading on a carpet of white and yellow flowers and accompanied on my way by butterflies and flying beetles.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • From him I glanced towards his pursuers (they being already upon the reef) and counted nine of them running hitherward and the moon aglint on the weapons they bore.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Lad's sinewy body was crouching above it, fangs aglint, eyes blazing with hot menace.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Then, stepping back a pace, he looked up, eagerly, into the dumfounded man's face, tail waving, dark eyes aglint with expectation.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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