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Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter. The right mark and very true luster of the diamond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.

apparent diameter. -- Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth magnitude being just visible to the naked eye. Telescopic stars are classified down to the twelfth magnitude or lower. The scale…

Brightness; luster. [R.]

Brightness or strength of color. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton.

To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. The glowpale his uneffectual fire. Shak.

ll incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.

Superior brightness or effulgency. [R.] Barrow.

The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale.

cially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun. Mark what radiant state she spreads. Milton.

To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. [R.]

radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] Shak.

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor. Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might. Milton. The resplendency of his own almighty goodness. Dr. J. Scott.

To obscure; to dim the brightness of. Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. Milton.

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

To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine. Shak. God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of…

Brightness. J. Spence.

To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver. And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep. Pope.