glinting

Verb

glint (third-person singular simple present glints, present participle glinting, simple past and past participle glinted)

1. (intransitive) To flash or gleam briefly.
   • A wedding ring glinted on her finger.
2. (intransitive, uncommon) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
   • The rising sun owre Galston muirs, / Wi' glorious light was glintin'1785, Robert Burns, The Holy Fair
3. (transitive) To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
   • The scientists theorized that a meteoroid, ranging in size from a speck of dust to a marble, might have struck the satellite and chipped off a bit of debris that glinted a ray of sun back on the Vela's second sensor […]1980, Inquiry Magazine
4. (Shropshire, archaic, transitive) To dry; to wither.
   • The sun glints grass and corn.

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