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To separate or part as if with a sieve. When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden.

A spangle or shining ornament. [Obs.] With glittering spangs that did like stars appear. Spenser.

To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter. Some men by feigning words as dark as mine Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine. Bunyan.

Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.

Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n.

fice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery. All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. Thomson.

le on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. How peddlers' stalls with glittering toys are laid. Gay.

The light given by the stars. Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Milton.

Bright; glittering; fiery. [Obs.] His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.

o dart; to penetrate. Till a dart strike through his liver. Prov. vii. 23. Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. Dryden.

bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

ads, or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. Milton.

To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth.

wn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke. When lightning shoots in glittering trails along. Rowe.

ents; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [R.] Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld. Tennyson.