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manent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. "Measured this transient world." Milton.

Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck.

Passing through or over. [R.]

ten approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient. Thou shalt meet a company of prophets. 1 Sam. x. 5.

and not after intrinsic value. Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. W. Irving.

e; ascendency. Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient. Dryden.

of light (Physics), a theory of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents moving transversely to the direction of the ray.

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

h; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope.

In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly. Hakewill.

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.

A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

A sudden flash; transient luster. LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton.