Definition of shine

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Shine (v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation..

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Moonshine :: Moonshine (n.) A month.
Brushiness :: Brushiness (n.) The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.
Burnish :: Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large..
Phosphorus :: Phosphorus (n.) Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies..
Ray :: Ray (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles..
Shine :: Shine (v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them..
Transparency :: Transparency (n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it..
Shimmer :: Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
Fishiness :: Fishiness (n.) The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike.
Outray :: Outray (v. t.) To outshine.
Marshiness :: Marshiness (n.) The state or condition of being marshy.
Shine :: Shine (v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night..
Effulge :: Effulge (v. i.) To shine forth; to beam.
Noctiluca :: Noctiluca (n.) That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus.
Shiner :: Shiner (n.) A bright piece of money.
Hyperborean :: Hyperborean (n.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine..
Overshine :: Overshine (v. t.) To excel in shining; to outshine.
Moonfish :: Moonfish (n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish..
Shiner :: Shiner (n.) That which shines.
Shine :: Shine (n.) Sunshine; fair weather.
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