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noun

Gleam n.

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

Brightness; splendor. "In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen."

verb

Gleam v. t. (past & past part. gleamed; pres. part. gleaming)

To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.

To shine; to cast light; to glitter.

Synonyms: To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter. 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.

Gleam v. t. To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.). "Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights."

Gleam v. i. (Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

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Etymology of 'Gleam'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gleam" Quotes from Famous Books

... cheerfully up the same street—to do this actually, with bark of powder and attending puffs of dust cut—this is indeed delightsome when the heart is full of red blood, and the chest swells with charged wine o' life, and the eyes gleam and the muscles harden for very search of some endeavor immediate and difficult! It is the more delightsome when this moment of man-frenzy finds one in such a town as was this of Heart's Desire; where, indeed, a man could do ...

— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

... was Angelina; she was the one who "painted in oils," and she attracted me more than any of the others. There was about her an atmosphere of pleasure, within her an expression of delight, that accounted for the really sunny gleam upon her face. Something had made all the day happy for her. In the morning she had passed nearly all the time in Mrs. Jay's front drawing-room. The fine masterpieces of art, brought from Europe, make this apartment a true picture-gallery. But Angelina's pleasure, artist though ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... his weight. He could hear no sounds from the other side now. Rounding the back of his tent, at the corner he lay flat and stuck his head around. At first he could see nothing. The tall trees on the further shore cut off all but the faintest gleam of light from the river. A little forward and to the left of his tent there was a thick clump of willow, making a black shadow at its foot that might have concealed anything. Stonor watched, breathing with open mouth ...

— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... by short cuts through green lanes, across pleasant meadows, and along shady hedgerows. As one passes along these cosey byways, he sees, from every eminence or turn, a new prospect over the landscape interspersed with trees, now and then the bright gleam of water through the foliage, and occasionally some beautiful vista view across parks and homesteads. In this way one can go from town to town, and get about the country quite independently of the highways. Most of the country churches are approachable by lanes and foot-paths ...

— The Road and the Roadside • Burton Willis Potter

... still held his head high, but gradually the fierce gleam in his eye changed to a look of gentleness, of unspeakable sadness, and his winning smile came to have so much sorrow in it that men said to each other after they left him, "His heart is breaking." He was allowed to see and talk with other prisoners. When Micanopy and other ...

— Four American Indians - King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola • Edson L. Whitney

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