Gleaming

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Gleaming}.]
     1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn,
        light gleams in the east.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
  
     Syn: To {Gleam}, {Glimmer}, {Glitter}.
  
     Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of
            light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady
            giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that
            is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon
            the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist;
            a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See {Flash}.
            [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gleaming
       adj : bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we
             saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming
             brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
             [syn: {agleam}, {nitid}]
       n 1: a flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: {gleam},
             {glimmer}]
       2: an appearance of reflected light [syn: {gleam}, {glow}, {lambency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "gleaming":
     aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, buffed, burning,
     burnished, candescent, finished, flushing, furbished, glace,
     glassy, glazed, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glossy, glowing,
     illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lacquered, lamping,
     light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
     luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, polished,
     radiant, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, sheeny, shellacked,
     shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, starbright, starlike,
     starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, varnished, velvety