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e 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.

Glittering. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a glittering manner.

Clittering; in a glitter.

[Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

A large mass or hill, as of ice. Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson .

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

Having glittering armor. [Poetic] Milton.

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.

head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. Pope. Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. Dryden.

inuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. -- Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Soluti…

A convex body or surface. Half heaven's convex glitters with the flame. Tickell.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

A glittering stone.

n concealment wrap me up awhile. Shak. His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall. Macaulay.