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To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash. This dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion. Shak.

e elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context. J. M. Mason.

ond and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship. -- Monkey shine, monkey trick. [Slang, U.S.] -- Monkey trick, a mischievous prank. Saintsbury. -- Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Monkey wrench, a wrench or spanner having a movable jaw.

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

A moonshiner.

hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic] So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

Sneezing. [Obs.] "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli. 18.

That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus.

A bay window. See Bay window. The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. Tennyson.

etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out. Leaves are out and perfect in a month. Bacon. She has not been out [in general society]…

To outshine. [R.] Skelton.

er. If it assume my noble father's person. Shak. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. Milton.

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies. Bologna phosphorus (Chem.), sulphide of barium, which shines in the dark after exposure to light; -- so called because this property was discovered by a resident of Bologna. The term is sometimes applied to other compounds…

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. "Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed." Gen. xli. 19.

rimary; original; chief. It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. Shak. The primal duties shine aloft like stars. Wordsworth.

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiant like the sun at noon. Howell.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. [R.] Thompson.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.