lustering

Verb

luster (third-person singular simple present lusters, present participle lustering, simple past and past participle lustered)

1. (US, archaic, intransitive) To have luster, to gleam, to shine.
   • What bloom, what brightness lusters o’er her cheeks!1729, Richard Savage, The Wanderer, Sect. iii, l. 326
2. (US, archaic, intransitive) To gain luster, to become lustrous.
3. (US, obsolete, transitive) To make illustrious or attractive, to distinguish.
   • Our Puritans have from hence learned to colour and lustre their ugly Treasons... with the cloake of Religion.1644, John Maxwell, Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas, page 17
4. (US, transitive) To coat with a lustrous material or glaze, to impart physical luster to an object.
   • Peter and Mania found a pensione whose view was of chestnut woods and a horizon looped by peaks lustred with last winter’s snow, distant in time as well as space.1985, Nadine Gordimer, “Sins of the Third Age”, in Something Out There, Penguin, page 69
5. (US, obsolete, transitive) To shed light on, to illustrate, to show.
6. (US, obsolete, transitive) Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew.

   Synonyms:

   purify, to ritually cleanse or renew

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