| 释义 |
▪ I. glisten, n.|ˈglɪs(ə)n|
[f. the vb.]
Glitter; sparkle.
1840S. Bamford Life of Radical xx. 133 Away it went i' th' glizzen an' th' thunner-din, o'er th' moor. 1853C. Brontë Villette xiv, The sight of a piece of gold would bring into her eyes a green glisten, singular to witness. 1855Tennyson Daisy 35 Oft we saw the glisten Of ice, far up on a mountain head. 1880Howells Undisc. Country xx. 309 His vision was full of the sunny glisten of meadows. 1897Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/1 The lace skirt..softens..the glisten of the satin.
Hence ˈglistenless a., without glisten.
1854Marion Harland Alone xi, The golden trumpet was glistenless as the rest, and the stars only kept guard over the slumbering city.
▪ II. glisten, v.|ˈglɪs(ə)n|
Forms: 1 glis-, glysnian, 3 glisnien, glistnen, 4 glis-, glysnen, -ien, glystnen, 4–5 gles(s)en, glisson, 5–8 glissen, (5 glyssen, -on, -yn), 9 dial. glizzen, 4– glisten.
[OE. glisnian, f. the root of glise v.: see -en5.]
intr. To shine with a fitful twinkling light; to glitter; to sparkle with light. lit. and fig.
c1000Runic Poem 30 (Gr.) He glisnað glæshluttur. c1000in Cockayne Shrine 149 Se engel hæfde tweᵹen beaᵹas on hys handa ða glysnodon hwylum swa rosan blosman. a1225St. Marher. 9 Glistnede as gleam deð. c1275Lay. 21725 Scealdes þar glissenede. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1017 Masporye as glas þat glysnande schon. c1400Rowland & O. 1365 His armours glyssenede full bryhte. a1660Hammond Serm. xiv. Wks. 1683 IV. 660 How unpolish't soever this Diamond be, yet if it do but glissen, 'tis too pretious to be cast away. 1741–2Richardson Pamela (J.), The ladies eyes glistened with pleasure. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 236 While broken tea-cups..Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. (ed. 2) 400 These masses would shine, indeed, and glisten, but it would be in the dark. 1840Bamford Life of Radical xx. 133 It wur as fair a gowden yallo as ever glizzent. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. viii. 214 Here and there a mass glistens white as if it were snow. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 58 The Irish rivers glisten with salmon.
fig.1763C. Johnston Reverie II. 179 Vanity glissened through her grief. 1815Apollo's Choice ii. ii, Ah, gentle swain, I prythee listen, Let pity in thine eye-balls glisten. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. x, Very tall and very stately, he was talking now to this old man, now to that young woman, and every face glistened towards which he turned.
Hence ˈglistener slang, a gold coin (cf. shiner).
1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris vi. 45 Gemmen, who touched the Treasury glisteners, Like us, for being trusty listeners. |