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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

... over his face as he watched the graceful figure balancing to the heave of the ship. It took on the same evil look which he had seen in his fall, while there was no mistaking the thought behind the gleam in his eyes. The mate looked up,—into Owen's face,—and saw something there which he must have understood; for he dropped his glance to the compass, snarled out, "Keep her on the course," and stepped into the lee alleyway, where the dinghy, lashed upside ...

— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson

... that the pain was almost unbearable. I was strongly tempted to turn back, but having got so far, I resolved to go on. My teeth began to chatter. The man who had passed by me had already reached the ablution shed and I could see a faint gleam from his candle in the distance, so that I did not fear to ...

— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt

... as we turned a bend in the road. Ours was an important journey, and many of the neighbors came out as we passed along and cried words of encouragement. On a hill-top we heard the gallop of a horse, and out of a lane dashed a girl—Millie. She smiled at us, nodded as her horse jumped, and gave us a gleam of her white hand as she sped off ...

— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read

... to look at the sunshine of heaven. And she looked at the red sun, and she thought about it so deeply, and thought of the little one whom the stork was to bring, and the wife of the drummer was very cheerful, and looked and looked, and wished that the child might have a gleam of sunshine given to it, so that it might at least become like one of the shining angels over ...

— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

... I might," Dinah admitted. And then very suddenly she caught a kindly gleam in his eyes, and summoned courage for entreaty. "Do please—please—let me go!" she begged, clasping his arm. "I shan't ever have any fun again when this ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

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