The action of shine, v.; emission or shedding of light; gleaming, beaming.

The shining or shedding of light; suffusion with light; lighting up, brightening. Now rare except with reference to the sky, the dawn, etc…

= lucency, n.

The action of shining forth. In quot. figurative.

The quality or condition of being luminous.

The action of shining out; the emission of light or brightness. Also: an instance of this. Now chiefly literary and archaic.

Luminous quality or condition; luminosity.

The shining or apparition of a planet; an instance of this.

The action or an instance of shining.

The action of ray, v.2 (in various senses); an instance of this. Also with out.

A shedding or emission of light. †Also concrete an illumination (cf. luminary, n. 2).

Indistinct or diffuse luminousness; something exhibiting this quality.

Luminousness.