See gleam on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English glem, gleam, gleme (“shaft of light; part of a comet’s tail; reflected sparkle; dawn; daylight; radiance (physical or spiritual); something fleeting”), from Old English glǣm (“gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (“brightness; splendour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”).\ncognates\n* Old High German glīmen (“to glow, shine”); gleimo, glīmo (“glowworm”) (Middle High German glīme, gleime)\n* Old Saxon glīmo (“brightness”)",
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"ref": "c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III, signature D4, verso:",
"text": "Is not yon gleame, the ſhuddering morne that flakes, / VVith ſiluer tinctur, the eaſt vierge of heauen?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 30:",
"text": "Sailing between Madagaſcar and Zeyloon (at or Near this place) in a dark night ſuddenly there happened a gleam of light, ſo bright that he could eaſily read by it. Amazed he vvas at this alteration; but at length perceived it vvas occaſioned by a number of Fiſh, vvhoſe glittering ſhells made that artificial light in the night, and gave the Sea a vvhite repercuſſion: […]",
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"ref": "1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter CXIV. To the Same [From Lien Chi Altangi, to Fum Hoam, First President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin, in China].”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume II, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 210:",
"text": "VVhat a gloom hangs all around! the dying lamp feebly emits a yellovv gleam, no ſound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the diſtant vvatch-dog.",
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{
"ref": "1807, William Wordsworth, “Elegiac Stanzas, […]”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 142:",
"text": "Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, / To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, / The light that never was, on sea or land, / The consecration, and the Poet's dream; // I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile! / Amid a world how different from this!",
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{
"ref": "1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Novice”, in “Leila; or, The Siege of Granada”, in Leila; or, The Siege of Granada: And Calderon, the Courtier. […], London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Paris: Delloy and Co., →OCLC, book V, page 238:",
"text": "But a faint and partial gleam of sunshine broke through the aperture, and made yet more cheerless the dreary aspect and gloomy appurtenances of the cell.",
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{
"ref": "1860, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 22:",
"text": "And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height / A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!",
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"ref": "1868 May 9, Fr[ancis] Bret Harte, “John Burns of Gettysburg”, in Littel’s Living Age, volume IX (4th Series; volume XCVII overall), number 1249, Boston, Mass.: Littel & Gay, →OCLC, page 322, column 2:",
"text": "And some of the soldiers since declare / That the gleam of his old white hat afar, / Like the crested plume of the brave Navarre, / That day was their oriflamme of war.",
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"roman": "lǎč",
"sense": "indistinct or small, or short-lived, appearance of light",
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"sense": "indistinct or small, or short-lived, appearance of light",
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"word": "луч"
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"word": "свет"
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"_dis1": "52 16 24 1 3 4",
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"word": "parıltı"
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"word": "світло"
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"text": "The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.",
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"ref": "1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 228:",
"text": "On the fifteenth of June a gleam of hope appeared.",
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"sense": "indistinct sign of something — see also glimpse, hint",
"word": "նշույլ"
},
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"sense": "indistinct sign of something — see also glimpse, hint",
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"word": "Funke"
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"tags": [
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"word": "urmă"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "про́блеск"
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"sense": "indistinct sign of something — see also glimpse, hint",
"word": "belirti"
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"_dis1": "12 56 1 1 21 10",
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"word": "проблиск"
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"sense": "bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something",
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"ref": "1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Discovery”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 72:",
"text": "[H]is black visage lighted up with a curious, mischievous gleam.",
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},
{
"ref": "1963 (date written), Bobby Hebb (lyrics and music), “Sunny”, published June 1966:",
"text": "Sunny, thank you for that smile upon your face / Sunny, thank you, thank you for the gleam that flows its grace",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A look of joy or liveliness on one's face."
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"text": "Beneath an oak he laid him down, / That in the blaze gleamed ruddy brown, […]",
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"text": "King angels hover round thee, as thou dreamest: / Soft lashes hide they beauteous azure eye which gleamest.",
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"ref": "1849 November, R. F., “To the Rain. Lines Written at Rydal.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XL, number CCXXXXIX, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, page 497:",
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"text": "Hail, thou overshadowing mount of the Holy Ghost [i.e., Mary, mother of Jesus]. Thou gleamedst, sweet gift-bestowing mother, of the light of the sun; thou gleamedst with the insupportable fires of a most fervent charity, […]",
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"text": "How the trees must temper noontide! Ah, the thicket's sudden break! / What will be the morning glory, when at dusk thus gleams the lake?",
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"text": "There, near the ruins of the Oscan's old Atella, rises Aversa, once the strong hold of the Norman; there gleam the columns of Capua, above the Vulturnian Stream.",
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"text": "King angels hover round thee, as thou dreamest: / Soft lashes hide they beauteous azure eye which gleamest.",
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"ref": "1849 November, R. F., “To the Rain. Lines Written at Rydal.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XL, number CCXXXXIX, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, page 497:",
"text": "In dew descending on creation's Queen, / Thou gleamedst germlike on her golden hair.",
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"text": "Hail, thou overshadowing mount of the Holy Ghost [i.e., Mary, mother of Jesus]. Thou gleamedst, sweet gift-bestowing mother, of the light of the sun; thou gleamedst with the insupportable fires of a most fervent charity, […]",
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"text": "How the trees must temper noontide! Ah, the thicket's sudden break! / What will be the morning glory, when at dusk thus gleams the lake?",
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},
"expansion": "Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "clǣman",
"t": "to smear"
},
"expansion": "Old English clǣman (“to smear”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*klaimijaną",
"t": "to smear with clay, to mortar"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gleh₁y-",
"t": "to glue, stick; to smear"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A variant of Middle English gleimen, gleym (“to smear; to make slimy or sticky; to fill up (the stomach); to nauseate; of a slimy or viscous substance: to be stuck together; (figuratively) to captivate, ensnare; to infect with heresy”) [and other forms], probably a blend of glet (“slimy or viscous matter produced by animals; mucus, phlegm; congestion of mucus or phlegm in the body; viscosity”), gleu (“substance used to stick things together, glue; viscous medicine made from plants”), etc. + Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”) (whence Old English clǣman (“to smear”)) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”), from *klaimaz (“clay; mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gleams",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "gleaming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "gleamed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gleamed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Falconry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1800, “Gleam”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, The Gentleman’s Companion: For Town and Country. […], 4th edition, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […]; by R. Noble, […], →OCLC, column 1:",
"text": "Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge."
],
"links": [
[
"falconry",
"falconry"
],
[
"hawk",
"hawk#Noun"
],
[
"bird of prey",
"bird of prey"
],
[
"disgorge",
"disgorge"
],
[
"filth",
"filth"
],
[
"crop",
"crop#Noun"
],
[
"gorge",
"gorge#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"falconry",
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɡliːm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɡlim/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-gleam.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːm"
}
],
"word": "gleam"
}
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