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verb

Shine v. t. (past & past part. shone, archaic shined; pres. part. shining)

To cause to shine, as a light. (Obs.) "He (God) doth not rain wealth, nor shine honor and virtues, upon men equally."

To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them. (U. S.)

Shine v. i. (past & past part. shone, archaic shined; pres. part. shining)

To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. "Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine." "God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist." "Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster."

To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.

To be effulgent in splendor or beauty. "So proud she shined in her princely state." "Once brightest shined this child of heat and air."

To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation. "Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable."

To make the face to shine upon, or To cause the face to shine upon, to be propitious to; to be gracious to.

noun

Shine n.

The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen. "Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine." "Fair opening to some court's propitious shine." "The distant shine of the celestial city."

Sunshine; fair weather. "Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine."

A liking for a person; a fancy. (Slang, U.S.)

Caper; antic; row. (Slang)

To cut up shines, to play pranks. (Slang, U.S.)

adjective

Shine adj. Shining; sheen. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Shine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shine" Quotes from Famous Books

... courtesy that they were mighty glad she had come. She was taken into the drawing-room—full of soft chairs and sofas that anybody might sit on, and with a fire of clear coals in a grate that glittered with constant polishing. But everything in Peter's establishment seemed to shine with pure cleanliness; he took after his mother, who, modest in other things, was fond of offering a sovereign to anybody who would find a cobweb in ...

— Sisters • Ada Cambridge

... sweet job for a day like this. Mor'n likely it'll put me under a stone myself. But folks won't listen to reason. It's been here fifteen years and seventeen days and now it must come out, rain or shine, before night-fall. 'Before the sun sets,' so the telegram ran. I'll be blessed but I'll ask a handsome ...

— The Chief Legatee • Anna Katharine Green

... on sunny days, flashing out light in every little ripple; in the late, sunless afternoon the light lay deeply within it, and it seemed jealous of giving back the least particle. He compared it then to an opal or a sapphire, which shine ...

— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... drawing the word out long. They were under a great shadowy train shed, where the lamps were already beginning to shine out, with passenger cars all about and the train moving at a snail's pace. The people in the car were all up and ...

— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... shine forth with the sweet questioning of joyous girlhood. Then Thornly, remembering how the question had been answered on a certain summer day when ignorance died and knowledge was born, wiped away the expression while his heart grew heavy ...

— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock

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