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A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

o shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.

cial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. J. R. Drake.

To engrave. [R.] "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.

Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of the stars." W. Irving.

A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser.

A limehound; a leamer.

A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound. [Obs.] Shak.

ke rises over the city. The mercy seat that is over the testimony. Ex. xxx. 6. Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning. Longfellow.

the liquor into equal portions. "Drink down to your peg." Longfellow. -- Peg tooth. See Fleam tooth under Fleam. -- Peg top, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it. -- Screw peg, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.

See Fleam.

The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.] The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. De Quincey.

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

A gleam or glimmering. "A little shimmering of a light." Chaucer.

To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.

To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.

A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.