Lexic.us

Definition of Glint

1. Verb. Be shiny, as if wet. "The horizon is glinting with lights"; "His eyes were glistening"

2. Noun. A momentary flash of light.

3. Verb. Throw a glance at; take a brief look at. "They glint up the hill"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"

4. Noun. A spatially localized brightness.

Definition of Glint

1. n. A glimpse, glance, or gleam.

2. v. t. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.

3. v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

Definition of Glint

1. Noun. short flash of light ¹

2. Verb. to flash briefly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glint

1. to glitter [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: glitter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glint

glimmer glimmered glimmering glimmeringly glimmerings glimmers glimmery glimms glimpse glimpsed

glimpser glimpsers glimpses glimpsing glims glint (current term) glint in the milkman's eye glinted glintier glintiest

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Literary usage of Glint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... glint, twinkle. flat-topped, a. tabular (formal or learned). flashing, n. bright (contextual), blazing (contextual), fulguration (rare or fig. ..."

2. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"A glint inside of Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet appointments. One item of many.—While it was hanging in suspense who should be appointed Secretary of the ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"The artist has fairly enough caught the steely glint of armour. Backplates were frequently composed of reticulated pieces overlapping each other, ..."

4. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"glint lines. The table-land of Spitzbergen. Greenland. The Caledonian mountains. The Armorican mountains. ..."

5. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"... O'er men that reel, 'mid glint of steel, Bellow or boom of gun, They leap and shout over each redoubt Till the final trench is won! O charge sublime! ..."

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