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bling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane. -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze…

Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.

Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. Glower.

Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.

A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.

Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. The gemmy bridle glittered free. Tennyson.

rs of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating. Her conversation More glad to me than to a miser money is. Sir P. Sidney. Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. Milton.

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.

Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth. Bright, crystal glass is glary. Boyle.

A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis. Youatt.

Brightness; splendor. In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen. Pope.

Brightness; splendor. [Obs.]

To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter. All that glisters is not gold. Shak.

A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton.

Bbrightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.