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Verb (1)

gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed)

1. (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
   • Many a dry drop ſeem'd a vveeping teare, / Shed for the ſlaughtred husband by the vvife. / The red bloud reek'd to ſhevv the Painters ſtrife, / And dying eyes gleem'd forth their aſhie lights, / Like dying coales burnt out in tedious nights.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature K, verso
2. (intransitive) To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
   • Quick to redeem the Prey their plighted Lords / Advance, the Palace gleams vvith ſhining Svvords.1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 563

   Synonyms:

   glint, glow, leam, sparkle

3. (figuratively, intransitive) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
   • Mr. Crawley spoke these words without hesitation, even with eloquence, standing upright, and with something of a noble anger gleaming over his poor wan face; and, I think that while speaking them, he was happier than he had been for many a long day.1867, Anthony Trollope, “The Bishop’s Angel”, in The Last Chronicle of Barset. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109

   Synonyms:

   flare, flash, kindle

Verb (2)

gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
   • Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.1800, “Gleam”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, The Gentleman’s Companion: For Town and Country. […], 4th edition, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […]; by R. Noble, […], →OCLC, column 1

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