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▪ I. shine, n.1|ʃaɪn|
[f. shine v. Cf. sheen n.1
WGer. had a synonymous form derived from the vb.: OS., OHG. scîn (Du. schijn, MHG. schîn, mod.G. schein); also OE. scín spectre (if the vowel be long).]
1. a. Brightness or radiance shed by a luminary or an illuminant.
a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 1174 Lyke Phebus beames shyne. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xlii. 16 The sonne ouer⁓loketh all thinges with his shine. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon i. i, When heauens bright shine is shadowed with a fogge. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xxii, And mooned Ashtaroth..Now sits not girt with Tapers holy shine. 1683Tryon Way to Health 73 This Fire..sends forth a bright shine and wholsom smell. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. xliii. 14 Sitting..with the windows open, enjoying the warm shine of the sun. 1844Browning Colombe's Birthday iv, Day by day, while shimmering grows shine. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. ii. 460 Their red torches' shine. 1878Hardy Ret. Native v. vii, [Her] bedroom was lighted up, and it was the shine from her window which had lighted the pole.
†b. A beam or ray; a halo. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 483 b, You may putt all your winninges in your eyes, and see never a shine the lesse. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii. Masque i, Her deuice within a Ring of clouds, a Heart with shine about it. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Tri. iii, The under Corylets did catch the shines, To guild their leaves. 1654Owen Saints' Persev. i. 5 Such shines of Gods countenance upon them.
2. a. Lustre or sheen of an object reflecting light, as metal, water, silk. † of shine: lustrous, glistening.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. v. (1601) L 3 b, Though we haue now put on no tyre of shine But mortall eyes vndazled may endure. 1648Herrick Hesper., Oberon's Palace 22 He, and They Led by the shine of Snails. 1667Decay Chr. Piety v. §29 Dazled with the glittering shine of Gold. 1696Tryon Misc. i. 7 This Spirit..loseth its pure Colour, or bright native Shine. 1813Byron Corsair i. ii, They..to each his blade assign, And careless eye the blood that dims its shine. 1869‘Lewis Carroll’ Phantasmagoria 92 For it [the hat] had lost its shape and shine, And it had cost him four-and-nine. 1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 6 The lurid shine Of seas in the night-wind's whirl.
b. Coupled with shade (cf. shine v. 1 c).
1838Mrs. Browning Seraphim ii, Death upon his face Is rather shine than shade. 1863‘C. Bede’ Tour in Tartanland 179 The mountain is..broken up into shine and shade.
c. Painting and Photogr. Shininess; a shiny patch.
1880Athenæum 28 Feb. 287/2 [The ‘spirit fresco’ process] being free from shine, is admirably adapted for mural work on a large scale, which should be seen at any angle. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 37 [The daguerreotype] was full of shines. 1901E. A. Pratt Notable Masters of Men 82 Without shine gold paint was of no value.
d. The polish given to a pair of boots by a bootblack; transf. a job of boot-blacking.
1871News (Galveston) 4 May (Schele de Vere), As I left the cars, an imp with smutty face, Said: Shine? 1872Lowell Milton Writ. 1890 IV. 103 If Mr. Masson never heard a shoeblack in the street say, ‘Shall I give you a shine, sir?’ his experience has been singular. 1894Advance (Chicago) 27 Dec. 456/1 A little boot-black, who..shivered in the March wind and waited for shines.
e. The pupil of the eye. dial. (Cf. sheen n.1 2.)
1713Guardian No. 58 ⁋6 A Gallon of my October will do thee more good than all thou canst get by fine Sights at London, which I'll engage thou mayest put in the Shine of thine Eye. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss.
f. spec. The shiny surface of a new cricket ball.
1950[see opener 1 e]. 1976J. Snow Cricket Rebel 30 Mike Smith didn't call upon me until Fred Trueman and Rumsey had seen the shine off the new ball.
3. a. Sunshine, esp. as opposed to rain; hence, fine weather. Also, moonlight. Also fig. phr. (come) rain or shine, in any circumstances, come what may.
1622Wither Philarete N 3, Or shine, or raine, or Blow, I, my Resolutions know. 1693Locke Educ. §9 Heat and Cold, Shine and Rain. 1797Coleridge Christabel i. II. 65 Ever and aye, by shine and shower. 1849Lytton Caxtons x. iv, A ceremony which, every night, shine or dark, he insisted upon punctiliously performing. 1888Henley Bk. Verses 113 Come storm, come shine, whatever befall. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lv, And the youth at morning shine Makes the vow he will not keep. 1905H. A. Vachell Hill vi. 138 With me you're first, rain or shine. 1908Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catal. 1076/2 These overcoats do double service, being adapted for all kinds of chilly weather, rain or shine. 1952M. R. Rinehart Pool vii. 54 She walks everywhere here in the city, rain or shine. 1978M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 115 He said..we'd got to put up with each other for ten years, ‘come rain or shine’.
b. Abbrev. of moonshine 4.
1933Sun (Baltimore) 22 July 8/7 You should take a julep made from the wonderful ‘shine’ made in the hills of Western Maryland. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling i. 12 ‘Goin' to Grahamsville allus do make me hongry.’ ‘You git a snort o' 'shine there, is the reason,’ she said. 1969P. Kavanagh Such Men are Dangerous (1971) iii. 42 Whiskey? A quart of shine, which the Lord loves, it being a natural product. 1977E. Leonard Hunted (1978) ix. 90 ‘Hundred-proof pure Kentucky bourbon. How about that.’ Like it was a treat and all Davis drank was some kind of piss-poor shine.
4. fig.
a. Brilliance, radiance, splendour, lustre. † Also [after G. schein], a specious appearance, a ‘show’.
1530Proper Dyaloge in Roy Rede me, etc. (Arb.) 131 Vyce cloked vnder shyne of vertuousnes. 1535Coverdale Col. ii. 23 Which thinges haue a shyne [Luther, schein; 1611 shew] of wyszdome. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 15 The bright shine, and worthines of his auncestors. a1634? Chapman Rev. Hon. ii. i, The glorious shine of your illustrious vertues. 1734Pope Ess. Man iv. 9 Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine. a1774Goldsm. Hist. Greece I. 380 The delusive shine of a lively and pompous eloquence. 1867Lowell Fitz Adam's Story 342 No other face had such a wholesome shine. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 53 To bask..in shine which kings and queens And baby-dauphins shed.
†b. Sunniness of disposition. Obs. rare.
1710Steele Spect. No. 75 ⁋4 What can make a Man so much in constant Good-humour and Shine, as we call it?
c. A brilliant display, a ‘dash’. Phr. to cut (make) a shine.
1819Metropolis II. 165 His name was well calculated to cut a shine. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. xii, To celebrate the nuptials with due shine and demonstration. 1847Robb Squatter Life (Bartlett 1860), To make a shine with Sally, I took her a new parasol.
d. Colloq. phr. to take the shine out of (less freq. from, U.S. off): to deprive (a person or thing) of his or its brilliance or pre-eminence; to outshine, surpass.
1819Moore Tom Crib (ed. 3) 34 Shewing such a fist of mutton As..Would take the shine from Speaker Sutton. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Southey & Porson Wks. 1853 I. 73/1, I am inclined to take the shine out of him for it. 1827De Quincey Murder Wks. 1854 IV. 33 The baker jumped up with surprising agility,..but the shine was now taken out of him. 1833[Seba Smith] Lett. J. Downing iii. (1835) 43, I am only sorry I didn't bring Seth Sprague along with me, with his pitch-pipe, jest to take the shine off of them 'ere singers. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxi, The cares of the world..takes the shine out of us.
5. An abusive term for a Black. Also attrib. U.S. slang.
1908J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 24 Shine, a colored person. 1929D. Hammett Dain Curse iv. 34 How'd you make out with the shine? 1934J. T. Farrell Young Manhood iii. xv. 227 They saw one beautiful blonde girl with a coal-black, sweating nigger, and they said nothing, only because there were too many shines in the place. 1940R. Chandler Farewell, My Lovely iii. 13 His voice said bitterly: ‘Shines. Another shine killing. That's what I rate after eighteen years in this man's police department.’ 1953W. Burroughs Junkie v. 51 A Negro sitting opposite us smiled. ‘The shine is wise,’ said Roy in my ear. ‘He is O.K.’ 1969S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiii. 116 He's a shine detective lieutenant.
▪ II. shine, n.2|ʃaɪn|
[perh. uses of prec. n., but the senses are curiously parallel to those of shindy.]
1. A party, convivial gathering; usually tea-shine, a ‘tea-fight’. dial.
1838Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 98 Two tea-shines went off with éclat. 1882Jamieson's Sc. Dict., Shine,..in a good sense the term is generally applied to a social gathering, especially when of a convivial kind, as a wedding..or a merry-making, which is called a grand or great shine.
2. A disturbance, row, fuss. colloq.
1832–53Whistle-binkie Ser. iii. 53 Siccan shines were there, Siccan noisy peltin'. 1849Cupples Green Hand xi, Sich a shine and a nitty as I kicks up. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. lvii, There'd be a pretty shine made if I was to go a wisitin them. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms vi, What's one horse to make such a shine about?
3. pl. Capers, tricks. U.S. Cf. shine n.1 4 c.
1830N. Dana Mariner's Sk. 34 (Thornton Amer. Gloss.), Has your skipper begun to cut any shines yet? 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. iv, ‘I'll boun you pulled 'em out, some o' your shines,’ said Aunt Chloe.
4. to take a shine to (colloq., orig. U.S.): to take a fancy for.
1839Crockett Almanac 1840 14, I wonst had an old flame I took sumthin of a shine to. 1848Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. A Letter, My gracious! it's a scorpion thet's took a shine to play with't. 1908W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career x, He took a shine to you that night you saw him. 1934F. H. Bushick Glamorous Days xxiii. 278 Nobody wanted the old corn cutter except this Irishman, who took a shine to it. 1956P. Scott Male Child ii. iv. 152, I suppose I oughtn't to blame you if Marion's taken a shine to you... You must have a way with women. 1961Guardian 23 Mar. 10/6 Shaw evidently took a shine to the young hero-worshipping woman. 1978L. Meynell Papersnake x. 132 He took to you... He took a shine to you. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 18 July 799/1 If her [sc. Barbara Pym's] heroines were married, they were not unfaithful to their husbands, although they might take a shine to the curate.
▪ III. † shine, a. poet. Obs.
[alteration of sheen a. by assimilation to shine v.]
Shining, bright.
a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies i. i. 34 Elegian Muse..Girt my shine browe [Ovid flaventia tempora] with Sea⁓banke Mirtle praise. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. iii. 3 These warlike Champions all in armour shine, Assembled were in field. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. 259 Stellisque micantibus æthera fixum..the skies with shine-starres fixt to be.
▪ IV. shine, v.|ʃaɪn|
Pa. tense and pple. shone |ʃɒn|. Forms: inf. and pres. stem. 1 scínan, scýnan, 2–3 scine(n, 2–4 schine(n, 3–5 scyne, 3–6 schine, 3–8 schyne, (3 sine, 4 schijne, ssine, ssyne, shyyne, 5 schone (?), 6 shynne), 4–6 shyne, 3– shine. pa. tense 1 scán, sceán (pl. scinon), 2–3 sc(e)an, 3–5 schon, 4–5 shoon, s(c)hoen, 4–6 schone, (3 scæn, s(c)on, shan, 4 schoon, 4, 7 shon, 6 shoone), 5– shone; north. 4 sca(i)n, schan, 4–5 shane, 4–6 schane, 5 chane; weak 4 scynde, schyn(e)de, shynede, schinede, 4–6 shyned, 5 schynyd, -it, 6 schynet, schynnit, 6 schyned, 6–7 shinde, 6– 8 shin'd, 7 shind, 6– (now U.S., dial. and arch.) shined. pa. pple. 3 sinen; 4–6 shyned, 7 shin'd, 7– shined; 8 shon, 6– shone.
[Com. Teut. str. vb.: OE. scínan (pa. tense scán, scinon, pa. pple. *scinen) = OFris. skîna (WFris. skine, NFris. skiin), OS. skînan (MLG., LG., MDu. schînen, Du. schijnen), OHG. scînan (MHG. scînen, schînen, G. scheinen to shine, to seem, appear), ON. skîna (Sw. skina), Goth. skeinan:—OTeut. *skinan, f. root skī̆ by means of the present-stem formative n, which was carried through into the pa. tense and pple.
Affinities outside Teutonic are Skr. chāyā́ shade, shimmer, mod.Pers. sāya, Gr. σκιᾱ́, OSlav. sĕni, Albanian hē shade; for the sense cf. shim n.1 and v.1, shimmer v.
The regular strong pa. pple. is rare in Eng., being unrecorded in OE. and appearing only once in ME. sinen; it was superseded by the weak form shined, which was in common use c 1300–1800; this was supplanted by the form of the strong pa. tense, which first appears as pa. pple. in the second half of the 16th c. (Weak forms are found in some of the continental langs., e.g. (pa. tense) late WFris. schynd, MLG. schynede, OHG. scînta, early mod.G. schein(e)te.)]
1. a. intr. Of a heavenly body or an object that is alight: To shed beams of bright light; to give out light so as to illuminate; to be radiant. Also with forth, out.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) A 801 Ardebat, scaan. c888ælfred Boeth. ix, Þonne seo sunne on hadrum heofone beorhtost scineð, þonne aþeostriað ealle steorran. c1000ælfric Gen. i. 15 Hiᵹ scinon on þære heofenan fæstnysse and alihton þa eorðan. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 678, Her ateowede cometa se steorra..& scan .iii. monðas ælce morᵹen swilce sunnebeam. a1200Moral Ode 275 Neure sunne þer ne scinð. c1220Bestiary 19 in O.E. Misc., Ne stireð he nout of slepe Til ðe sunne haueð sinen. c1290St. Bridget 41 in S. Eng. Leg. 193 Þe sonne schon In at one hole. 1390Gower Conf. I. 323 Hove out of mi Sonne, And let it schyne into mi Tonne. Ibid. II. 120 The nyht was derk, ther schon no Mone. c1440Alphabet of Tales 513/5 So he wolde sytt all day to þe son shane on his face agayn. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxv. 1 Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht. 1566Gascoigne Jocasta ii. i, The aultars where the sacred flames haue shone. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 272 Well shone Moone. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 29 It is day: because the Sun shineth above the horizon. 1703Rowe Ulysses i. i, What Sun has shon that has not seen your Insolence. 1704Prior Celia to Damon 20 Fires Eternal on Her Altars shine. 1735Johnson Lobo's Abyssinia, Descr. iv. 64 When the Storm is over, the Sun Shines out as before. 1815Scott Guy M. xxvii, It must surely have been a light in the hut of a forester, for it shone too steadily to be the glimmer of an ignis fatuus. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xviii. 133 The fog became thin, and the sun shone through it.
weak pa. tensec1305Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 133/66 The sonne..that..Maketh hire [the moon] so schyne aboute as heo schynde in crestal. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2194 No man she saw & ȝit shynede the mone. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lv. 131 Whan þy lanterne shyned upon his hede. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 229 The sone..schynnit bright wpoun the saillis. 1645Symonds Diary (Camden) 243 This night I saw a rainbow..at five in the morning, and the moone shined bright. 1776Chandler Trav. Greece xlv. 201 The moon shined bright.
b. Of the day: To be sunny or bright; also, to dawn. Chiefly poet.
1382Wyclif Matt. xxviii. 1 In the euenyng of the saboth,..that schyneth [Vulg. lucescit] in the firste day of the woke. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 95 As the goldin morning schynis bricht. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 397 Quhilk at last the daylyght begane to schyne. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 108 We can..dismiss thee ere the Morning shine. 1742Gray West 1 In vain to me the smileing Mornings shine.
c. impers. it shines: it is sunny.
c1400Beryn 1317 Thow tokist noon hede whils it shoon hoot. 1577Tusser Husb. (1878) 43 At noone if it bloweth, at night if it shine. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Water-cormorant A 4, According to his mood it raines or shines. 1853Hawthorne Engl. Note-bks. (1883) I. 436 By and by the sun shone out, and it has continued to shine and shade every ten minutes ever since.
d. to shine upon: to look favourably upon, be favourable to, said of a star, or (in biblical language) of the face of God. arch.
1535Coverdale Num. vi. 25 The Lorde make his face to shyne vpon the. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 707 Notwithstanding, that fortune shone on hym in obteyning the victorie agaynst the Erle of Warwike. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 75 Heauen and our Lady gracious hath it pleas'd To shine on my contemptible estate. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 51 The Lord Mountjoy, like a good Planet, with a fortunate aspect began to shine thereon. 1648Cromwell Let. to R. Hammond 25 Nov., We are sure, the good-will of Him who dwelt in the Bush has shined upon us. 1791Burns Lament Mary Q. of Scots vi, May kinder stars Upon thy fortune shine!
2. a. Of a metallic, polished, smooth, or glossy object: To be bright or resplendent; to gleam, glisten, or glitter with reflected light.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xiv. 88 Swæ swæ on ðæm mæssehræᵹle scinð [Hatton MS. scienð] onᵹemang oðrum bleom ðæt twyðrawene twin. a1000Cædmon's Exod. 125 (Gr.) Scean scir werod, scyldas lixton. c1205Lay. 27361 Sceldes blikien burnen scinen. a1225Juliana 54 (Royal MS.) Hire nebscheft schininde [Bodl. MS. schiminde] al as schene as þe sunne. c1230Hali Meid. 11 Nis hit nower neh gold al þat ter schineð. a1300Cursor M. 8484 Stedfast stode þe marbel stan, On-ferr þe golden letters scan. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1725) I. 148 Of gold schone his coroun. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 80 Wyth schymeryng schene ful schrylle þay schynde. c1386Chaucer Prol. 198 His heed was balled, þat shoon as any glas. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 20 Thair baneris schane with the sone, of siluer and sabill. 1526Tindale Luke ix. 29 His garment was whyte, and shoone. 1577T. Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 73 His tongue did lispe, his visage shinde. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 246 O 'tis the Sunne that maketh all things shine. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 508 Thick with sparkling orient Gemmes The Portal shon. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) 78 The whole House shined. 1808Scott Marm. vi. Introd. 53 The huge hall-table's oaken face, Scrubb'd till it shone. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. i. 237 A rook's feather may be made to shine with magnificent iridescences. 1888Henley Bk. Verses 118 Clear shine the hills. 1974Black World Jan. 57/1 Her shiny black paint shined in the sun.
indirect passive.1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. iv. x. §1 When they saw the riches of Rome..and found themselves shone round about..with silver and gold.
b. To be bright with.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. iii. 45 Our Italy, Shines o're with ciuill Swords. 1733Revol. Politicks v. 37 The Streets in the Evening every where shined very gloriously with Bonefires. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano ii. ii. 68 The altar shone With gold and silver.
3. To be radiant or brilliant with high colouring, rich array, or the like; to be effulgent with splendour or beauty; to make a brave show. Now rare.
971Blickl. Hom. 7 Seo hwitnes þære lilian scineþ on þe. c1375Cursor M. 23696 (Fairf.) Mani flouris..neuer-mare þe colour tine bot as paradis salle þai shine. a1400Pistill of Susan 106 (MS. I.) Þe chaumpet, þe cheuerell, þat schon opon heyght. c1450Mirk's Festial 132 Þes two woymen þat schynen passyng all oþyr, wer two comyn woymen. 1513Douglas æneis i. vi. 163 Her nek schane like unto the roise in May. 1577T. Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 84 b, In all thy body bewty shines, thy forhed shineth fair. a1639Carew To A. L. 64 When a fair lady's face is pined, And yellow spread where red once shined. 1781Cowper Truth 70 [The pheasant] retreats..To the close copse..And shines without desiring to be seen. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxxii, We are somewhat shorn of our train,..but you, cousin, must shine out for us both. 1833Tennyson Œnone 176 Her light foot Shone rosy-white. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. ii, Some centennial Cactus-flower, which after a century of waiting shines out for hours! 1878Susan Phillips On Seaboard 199 In the golden meadows, where the cowslip and crowsfoot shone.
4. In various fig. applications (cf. 5 and 6), with retention of literal phraseology.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 43 Þonne scinað ða rihtwisan swa swa sunne on hyra fæder rice. a1225Ancr. R. 246, & te soðe sunne, þet is Jesu Crist, schineð þerefter schennure to þe soule. a1300Cursor M. 12574 Þe clernes self o godds light Schan on him. 1382Wyclif Matt. v. 16 So shyyne ȝoure liȝt before men, that thei see ȝoure good werkis. c1400Rom. Rose 5357 Whan Richesse shyneth bright, Love recovereth ageyn his light. c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xv, Ther schone, or ellis schyned, in þe soule of þese women a fayr beute of precious perles, of swech goostly richesse. 1526Tindale 2 Cor. iv. 6 It is god..which hath shyned in oure hertes, for to geve the light of knowledge off the glorious god. 1535Coverdale Isa. ix. 2 As for them that dwel in the londe of the shadowe of death, vpon them shal the light shyne. 1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido ii. i. 481 In whose stern faces shin'd the quenchles fire. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 476 The Radiant Cymbeline, Which shines heere in the West. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 212 A Virtue, greater than euer yet had shin'd on earth. 1700Dryden Fables Pref. C 2, Chaucer..is a rough Diamond, and must first be polish'd e'er he shines. 1773R. Lowth Serm. Rom. xii. 11 p. 6 Their Learning..was such as could only have shined in dark times. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. viii, For we shall still find Hope shining..as a mild heavenly light it shone; as a red conflagration it shines. 1849T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady xii, How beautiful she is! A glorious gem She shines above the summer diadem Of flowers! 1982Chicago Sun-Times 12 July 65 But Red Smith was a beacon who shined for half a century.
5. Of persons: To be conspicuous or brilliant in ability, character, achievement, or position; to be eminent or distinguished, to excel.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xii. (1890) 44 Se nama ðære Romaniscan þeode, se ðe mid swa lange scean & bryhte. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 318 A man that schane of halynes. c1400Apol. Loll. 43 If we schyn in þeis vertues. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. v. (1883) 69 Hit was better and more noble thynge to shyne in good maners than in vayssell. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 202 To shyne before theyr flock with honest examples of lyfe. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §131 He shined in the House of Peers. 1710Steele Tatler No. 244 ⁋1 An Ambition to excel, or, as the Term is, to shine, in Company. 1747H. Walpole Let. to Mann 3 July, We shine at sea; two-and-forty sail of the Domingo fleet have fallen into our hands. 1805T. Harral Scenes of Life I. 113 That cause in which British valour had so often shined triumphant. 1818Byron Juan i. xxiii, If there's anything in which I shine, 'Tis in arranging all my friends' affairs. 1836Thirlwall Greece xvii. III. 2 He..never shone as an orator. 1859Habits of Gd. Society xiv. 349 The people who were stupidest before, suddenly shine out quite brilliantly. 1889Harper's Mag. Mar. 561/1 There was..a special reason which made me resolved to shine at this ball at whatever cost.
6. a. Of something immaterial: To appear with conspicuous clearness; to be brilliantly evident or visible; to stand out clearly.
c1340Hampole Prose Treat. 12 In þis gyfte schynes contemplacyone. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 449 A noble soule schoon by virtues in þat litel body. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 6 His grete beautee schynit sa before all otheris. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) 247 Alle good manyeres began to growe and shyne in hym. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 127 b, Then shined foorth indeede all loue among them. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. xi. §9 The wisedom of God, which shineth in the bewtifull varietie of all things. 1632Massinger Maid of Hon. iv. iv, The reverence and Majesty of Iuno Shinde in her lookes. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 304 Princely counsel in his face yet shon. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 204 In all the youth his father's image shin'd. 1853C. Brontë Villette xx, What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches! 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. vi, How the aged look faded off her worn face, and the sweet prettiness of former days began to shine out again. 1929[see concordancy]. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 18 Oct. 12/5 It was full of adept and memorable phrases... It shined with wit and humor.
b. To be clearly evident through an outward appearance.
1590Shakes. Two Gent. ii. i. 40 These follies are within you, and shine through you like the water in an Vrinall. 1605― Macb. iii. i. 128 Your Spirits shine through you. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xlvii. 138 To see the Countenance, (through which perhaps there shin'd a louely Maiesty..). 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 31 The babe Jesus in her arm, with his Father shining through him. 1859Tennyson Marr. Geraint 545 Yniol's rusted arms Were on his princely person, but thro' these Prince⁓like his bearing shone.
†7. to shine through: to be transparent. Obs.
1675Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. ii. 207 This [reasoning] is very thin Stuff; it shines through.
8. trans. To shed light upon, illuminate. rare.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xvii. (1495) 325 The mone is alway halfe shyned of the sonne. a1700Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. III. 355 God shines his Son, the Son God's shine reflects.
9. a. To cause (light) to shine, emit (rays). Also fig.
1588Greene Perimedes H 2 b, Her eyes shines fauour, courtesie, and grace. 1590― Never too late (1600) E 3, Eyes that lighten and doe shine, Beames of loue that are diuine. 1647J. Saltmarsh Spark. Glory 118 God..shines forth his wisdom..upon the world. 1661Feltham Resolves ii. xvi. 211 If it be but by reflection only, the beams are reverberated bright, as is the Sun that shines them. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. vii, She approached, shining smiles upon Esmond.
b. To show the light of (a lantern).
1895P. H. Emerson Birds, etc. Norfolk Broadland xxxvi. 103 The sparrow-catcher comes of a night and shines his bright lantern, and the foolish birds fly at it like moths at a candle.
c. To direct the rays of (a light) on, on to, under, etc.
1889Cent. Dict. 5573/3 The policeman shone his lantern up the alley. 1950Sun (Baltimore) 14 July 8/4 Two men in the office shined a flashlight under the platform. 1967P. Shaffer Black Comedy 48 The Colonel takes the torch from Harold and shines it pitilessly in Schuppanzigh's face. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xi. 210 The policeman shined his light over Garp. 1979Sci. Amer. Mar. 85/2 The intense light from this source was shined on a crystal that served as a frequency doubler.
10. a. to shine down: to surpass in brilliance.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. i. 20 The French..like Heathen Gods Shone downe the English. 1866‘Annie Thomas’ Walter Goring xxxvii, ‘Take it, Walter’, she continued, ‘give it to her; tell her she shines me down.’
b. To drive away by shining.
1884Tennyson Becket iii. i, Not The sun himself..Could shine away the darkness of that gap.
c. to shine up to; to try to please; to make oneself pleasant to. U.S.
1882Century Mag. Oct 827 It was then that David first set out to shine up to her. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xlii. 204 You might shine up to Hilda Farrand and join the rest of the fortune-hunters. 1971C. Fick Danziger Transcript (1973) 143, I never saw him sell a single secret..or shine up to a Kraut PW.
11. To cause to shine, put a polish on; orig. U.S. (inflected shined) to black (boots).
1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Varnish, shine, set a glosse vpon. 1872Calverley Arab 27 And thou hintest withal that thou fain would'st shine..these bulgy old boots of mine. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. xii, I wonder if they would find the seven-branched golden candlestick... I should like to..shine it up (excuse my colloquialisms). 1872B. Harte Heiress of Red Dog (1879) 188 Shine your boots, sir? 1892Gunter Miss Dividends ix, While his large boots have been very brightly shined by the boot-black. 1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 105 He wore a derby and shined shoes.
12. U.S. (Hunting.) To throw the light of a lantern, etc. on (the eyes of an animal); to locate the position of (an animal) in this way.
1845[W. T. Thompson] Chron. Pineville 169 (Bartlett Dict. Amer. 1860) You see the way we does to shine the deer's eyes is this—we holds the pan of fire so, on the left shoulder, and carries the gun at a trail in the right hand. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 541 Daniel Boone, while fire-hunting, shined a pair of mild blue eyes which struck him as not belonging to the game he was seeking. 1910Roosevelt Afr. Game Trails x. 226 We had discovered that the way to get this..nocturnal animal was by ‘shining’ it with a lantern at night. |