Usually means: Reflections or flashes of light.
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  1. gleams: Merriam-Webster
  2. gleams: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gleams: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gleams, gleams: Wordnik
  5. gleams: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gleams: Wiktionary
  7. gleams: Dictionary.com
  8. gleams: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. gleams: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. GLEAMS: Acronym Finder
  2. gleams: Idioms

(Note: See gleam as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gleam)

noun:  (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
noun:  (countable, figuratively)
noun:  An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
noun:  A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
noun:  A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  (countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
noun:  (uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
verb:  (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
verb:  (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
verb:  (intransitive, falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
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