"shone" meaning in Middle English

See shone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: scone [alternative], schon [alternative], shene [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English scȳne, scēone (“beautiful, fair, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *skauniz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱoun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”). Compare Middle Dutch scone (“beautiful, bright”), Dutch schoon (“beautiful”), German schön (“beautiful”). Etymology templates: {{der|enm|ang|scȳne}} Old English scȳne, {{der|enm|gem-pro|*skauniz}} Proto-Germanic *skauniz, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*(s)ḱoun-||quick, dashing, beautiful}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱoun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”), {{cog|dum|scone||beautiful, bright}} Middle Dutch scone (“beautiful, bright”), {{cog|nl|schoon||beautiful}} Dutch schoon (“beautiful”), {{cog|de|schön||beautiful}} German schön (“beautiful”) Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} shone, {{enm-adj}} shone
  1. beautiful, glorious, excellent, resplendent, noble
    Sense id: en-shone-enm-adj-gb5Txpcn Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 34 23 14 29
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|altform=1}} shone
  1. alternative form of schonen Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: schonen
    Sense id: en-shone-enm-verb-yq6JbPX7 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 34 23 14 29
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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