SHEEN

a. v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny. [R., except in poetry.] This holy maiden, that is so bright and sheen. Chaucer. Up rose each warrier bold and brave, Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen. Fairfax.

2.
v.

To shine; to glisten. [Poetic] This town, That, sheening far, celestial seems to be. Byron.

3.
n.

Brightness; splendor; glitter. "Throned in celestial sheen." Milton.


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