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galops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

of health." Bacon. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

One who revels. "Moonshine revelers." Shak.

To cause to turn, as on an axis. Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile. Milton.

A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak.

The redfin, or shiner.

To shine; to emit rays of light. [Obs.] Ure.

To shine; to glisten. [Poetic] This town, That, sheening far, celestial seems to be. Byron.

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

imp. & p. p. of Shine.

The quality or state of being shy. [Written also shiness.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter.

hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak.

To acquire a silvery color. [R.] The eastern sky began to silver and shine. L. Wallace.

To glimmer; to twinkle. [Obs.] Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine. Herbert.

Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "The stars shine smarter." Dryden.

piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap. We have often little snatches of sunshine. Spectator. Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. Shak.

olognese or Bologna phosphorus), calcium sulphide, etc., which become phosphorescent, and shine in the dark, after exposure to sunlight or other intense light. -- Solar plexus (Anat.), a nervous plexus situated in the dorsal and anterior part of the abdomen, consisting of several sympathetic ganglia with connecting an…

litter. Some men by feigning words as dark as mine Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine. Bunyan.

A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.