From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gleam \Gleam\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gleamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gleaming}.]
1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
Syn: To {Gleam}, {Glimmer}, {Glitter}.
Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist; a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See {Flash}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon" [syn: {agleam}, {nitid}]
noun
1: a flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: {gleam}, {glimmer}]
2: an appearance of reflected light [syn: {gleam}, {glow}, {lambency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "gleaming": aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, finished, flushing, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glossy, glowing, illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lacquered, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, polished, radiant, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, varnished, velvety
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