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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▸ 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.
▸ Also see gleam
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