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Glistening definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GLIS'TENING, ppr. Shining; sparkling; emitting rays of light.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glisten Glis"ten, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistened; p. pr. & vb. n. Glistening.] [OE. glistnian, akin to glisnen, glisien, AS. glisian, glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See Glitter, v. i., and cf. Glister, 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. Syn: See Flash.

Moby Thesaurus

blinking, blinky, burnished, coruscant, coruscating, gleaming, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glistering, glittering, glittery, glossy, lustrous, polished, scintillant, scintillating, scintillescent, sheeny, shimmering, shimmery, shining, shiny, spangly, sparkling, tinselly, twinkling, twinkly