Definition of glisten

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Glisten (v. i.) To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars..

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Sparkle :: Sparkle (n.) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash..
Relucent :: Relucent (a.) Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid.
Shimmer :: Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
Glisten :: Glisten (v. i.) To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars..
Glistening :: Glistening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gliste.
Sheen :: Sheen (v. i.) To shine; to glisten.
Spangle :: Spangle (v. i.) To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.
Knebelite :: Knebelite (n.) A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese..
Beady :: Beady (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening..
Glistened :: Glistened (imp. & p. p.) of Gliste.
Ice Plant :: Ice plant () A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass..
Starch :: Starch (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc..
Glister :: Glister (v. i.) To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
Gleen :: Gleen (v. i.) To glisten; to gleam.
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /..
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