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gleam🔊

An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.

📑 Synonyms: leam

(figuratively) An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.

📑 Synonyms: flicker glimmer trace

(figuratively) A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.

(figuratively) A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.

(obsolete) A warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.

(obsolete) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendor.

To cause (light) to shine.

To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.

📑 Synonyms: glint glow leam sparkle

(figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.

📑 Synonyms: flare flash kindle

(falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.