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Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat. -- n.

o disport. Even as the waving sedges play with wind. Shak. The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets. Addison. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. Pope.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] "Profulgent in preciousness." Chaucer.

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

Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- Re*ful"gent*ly, adv. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth. Boyle.

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

Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv. With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser.

To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. As when his virtues, shining upon others, Heat them and they retort that heat again To the first giver. Shak.

Having a reddish glow; shining. Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture. Evelin.

, having a pearly luster. (b) A similar variety of gypsum. -- Satin sparrow (Zoöl.), the shining flycatcher (Myiagra nitida) of Tasmania and Australia. The upper surface of the male is rich blackish green with a metallic luster. -- Satin stone, satin spar.

leton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave. Milton.

The color so laid on. Also used figuratively. Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards. L. Wallace.

Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. "A sheeny summer morn." Tennyson.

The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen. Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine. Milton. Fair opening to some court's propitious shine. Pope. The distant shine of the celestial city. Hawthorne.

not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints. The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds . . . made the softest lights imaginable. Sir T. Browne.

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

A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.

Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4.

Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.