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单词 gleen
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gleenn.

/ɡliːn/
Forms: Also 1600s glean.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Probably a dialect word, of Scandinavian origin: compare Swedish (dialect) glena, Danish (dialect) glene a clear strip or patch of sky. The Old Norse mythologic name Glenr, the husband of the sun, is perhaps connected.
Obsolete exc. archaic. rare.
A gleam of light; a warm blaze of sunlight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > gleam or glint of
sun gleam1627
sun blink1635
gleen1656
sunblush1832
sunglow1841
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked iv. §35 Fiery Meteors: namely, falling Stars, flying Dragons, fals Fiers; also Gleans, Flashings, openings of the skie, suddenly disappearing.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xvi. 104 Another time I remember suffocating Gleans of the Sun, πνῖγος the Ancients call it.
1825 Hogg in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 111 All glitter'd with a glowing gleen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

gleenv.

Forms: Also 1500s glene.
Etymology: See gleen n. and compare Swedish (dialect) glena to shine.
Obsolete. rare.
= gleam v.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker
shimmera1100
blenk1303
leamc1330
blysnec1400
glimmerc1400
glimpsec1400
glintc1440
glim1481
lemyrea1500
glimster1565
glance1568
flicker1608
simper1633
gloat1644
gleen1662
shimper1674
blink1786
skimmer1788
flash1791
sheen1812
glinter1851
flimmer1880
1662 J. Chandler tr. S. D. d'A. in tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike Prophesy sig. f If thou belov'd Narcissus hadst not seen Thy proper figure in a well to gleen [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈgleening n. and adj. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > [noun] > a manifestation > vivid
gleam?c1225
gleening1591
1591 Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) ix. iv. f. 145v Those..beeing lead by their owne blind iudgements..are oftentimes trained out of the way of truth, by likely glenings [1567 gleringes] of reason.
c1709 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 86 Those who..Bend stubborn steel, and harden gleening armour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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