gleam

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.

   “Is not yon gleame, the ſhuddering morne that flakes, / VVith ſiluer tinctur, the eaſt vierge of heauen?”

2. isim An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.

   “The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.”

3. isim A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
4. isim A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.

   “[H]is black visage lighted up with a curious, mischievous gleam.”

5. isim Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
6. isim Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.

   “Then vvas the faire Dodonian tree far ſeene, / Vpon ſeauen hills to ſpread his gladſome gleame, / And conquerours bedecked vvith his greene, / Along the bancks of the Auſonian ſtreame: […]”

7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil 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.”

9. fiil 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.”

10. fiil 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.”