GLISTENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glistening mean? 

• GLISTENING (adjective)
  The adjective GLISTENING has 1 sense:

1. reflecting light

  Familiarity information: GLISTENING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLISTENING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reflecting light

Synonyms:

glistening; glossy; lustrous; sheeny; shining; shiny

Context example:

shining white enamel

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

It was a beautiful dry tunnel with smooth gray walls covered with native symbols, a curved roof which arched over our heads, and white glistening sand beneath our feet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Testing the optical properties of a device such as diopter, glare, and irradiance or glistening.

(Device Light Source Performance Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

He sat perched on a high bay horse, and held on to the bridle of a spirited black palfrey, the hides of both glistening from a long run.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It caught the breath from my lips—that monstrous, glistening eye.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The matrix created a smooth, glistening appearance over the scaffolds.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel grey, and glistening coldly with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolf Larsen was steering, his eyes glistening and snapping as they dwelt upon and leaped from detail to detail of the chase.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sleep came upon me as it came on many other outcasts, against whom house-doors were locked, and house-dogs barked, that night—and I dreamed of lying on my old school-bed, talking to the boys in my room; and found myself sitting upright, with Steerforth's name upon my lips, looking wildly at the stars that were glistening and glimmering above me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Recall the august yet harmonious lineaments, the Grecian neck and bust; let the round and dazzling arm be visible, and the delicate hand; omit neither diamond ring nor gold bracelet; portray faithfully the attire, aerial lace and glistening satin, graceful scarf and golden rose; call it 'Blanche, an accomplished lady of rank.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Out of this there had emerged a black, glistening object.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)