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A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. B. Taylor.

An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen.]

A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.

In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor.

o surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.

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.

in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

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.

ice, 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.

e 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.

A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.

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.

og 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.