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▪ I. glistening, vbl. n.|ˈglɪs(ə)nɪŋ|
[See -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. glisten; glitter, sparkle.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. ix. (1495) 37 He callyth the shynyng the illumynacion and glisnynge. 1753J. Bartlet Gentl. Farriery xv. 143 Rub the quicksilver till no glistening appears. 1791F. Burney Diary July, The Princess spoke feelings I could not expect, by the immediate glistening of her soft eyes. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 417 There was a muddy glistening in her eyes which I had seen described. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 40 On the walls a glistening was here and there observable. 1873T. W. Higginson Oldport Days iv. 91 Jelly-fishes..shot through and through in the sun-light with all manner of blue and golden glistenings.
2. Something that causes to glisten.
1631Celestina vi. 78 Clothing them [their faces] with divers colours, glissenings, paintings, unctions. a1641Suckling Farewell to Love vii. (1648) 48 The Gum and glistning, which with art And studi'd method, in each part Hangs down the heart, Looks (just) as if, that day Snailes there had crawl'd the Hay.
▪ II. glistening, ppl. a.|ˈglɪs(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. glisten v. + -ing2.]
That glistens. lit. and fig.
1388Wyclif Hab. iii. 11 In the liȝt of thin arrowis thei schulen go, in the schynyng of thi spere glisnynge. a1400–50Alexander 3015 His ginge & all his garysons in glyssynand wedis, Gaes him on to granton & graithes þare his tentis. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts x. 30 A certayne man..stoode visible before me, in a glystenyng garment. 1726–46Thomson Winter 262 The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 133 The tuneful Goddess on the glowing sky Fix'd in mute extacy her glistening eye. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps ii. §1. 28 But it is the glistening and softly spoken lie..that [etc.]. 1870Bryant Iliad II. xiv. 63 A bright golden cloud Gathered, and shed its drops of glistening dew.
Hence ˈglisteningly adv., in a glistening manner.
1611Cotgr., Luisantemente,..glisteningly. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap 1060 Glisteningly beneath the Maynight moon. Herbage and floral coverture bedeck Yon splintered mass. |