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A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. Transient unexpected gleams of joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow.

from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. Mercy with her genial beam. Keble.

Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Sir W. Scott. Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth.

To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.

A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.

To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. [Obs.] "Flames of fouldering heat." Spenser.

To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] Prior.

A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson.

A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.

icial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. J. R. Drake.

To engrave. [R.] "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.

Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of the stars." W. Irving.

A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] Chaucer.