Reverse Dictionary: GLEAM

ADJECTIVES
► ABLAZE in flashing or brilliant colours; gleaming → 1851
► CORUSCANT glittering, sparkling, gleaming → 1592
► FAW of objects that reflect light: bright, glancing, gleaming, twinkling → c1000 obs.
► LEAMING gleaming, flashing, shining → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LEVINING gleaming, glimmering, flickering → a1340 obs.
► LOWING burning, blazing; glowing, gleaming; later,, full of passion or ardour → c1400
► RUTILANT glowing, shining, gleaming, glittering, with either a reddish or golden light → a1460
► RUTILOUS glowing, shining, gleaming, glittering, with either a reddish or golden light; also, reddish, sandy → 1654
► SKIMMERING gleaming, glittering, flickering → c1440

NOUNS
► BLINK a gleam, a ray → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► GLIFF a flash, a gleam; a short space of time, an instant, a moment → 1816 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LEAM light, flame; a flash, ray, or gleam of light; brightness, gleam → c1175 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LOWE flame, fire; a flame, a fire, a blaze; also, the gleam or glow of a fire, flame, etc. → c1175 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RUTILANCE a glowing, shining, gleaming, glittering, with either a reddish or golden light → 1908
► RUTILATION a glow, shine, gleam, glitter, of either a reddish or a golden light; a glowing, etc. with such a light → 1658
► SCAD any colour slightly or obliquely seen as by reflection; the reflection itself; a faint gleam → 1804 Sc.
► SCANCE ► SKANCE a glance, a glimpse; a gleam of light → 1787 Sc.
► THUNDER-FLAUGHT a flickering gleam among thunder-clouds → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BLINK to shine, to gleam; to twinkle, to glimmer, to flicker → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► GLIFF to flash, to gleam; to shine suddenly → a1400-50 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GLOSE to blaze, gleam → 1820 Sc.
► LAIT to flash, to gleam, to lighten → c1205 obs.
► LAMP to shine, to gleam, to glitter, as the stars on a frosty night, to twinkle → 1825 Sc.
► LEAM to shine, to gleam; to light up → a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LOWE to be on fire; to burn, to blaze; also, to glow, to gleam → c1400 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCANCE to gleam, to glitter, to shine → 1773 Sc.
► SCANNACH to gleam, to shine → 1814 Sc. obs.
► SCARROW to emit a faint light; to gleam intermittently or indistinctly → 1825
► SKIMMER to shimmer, to glitter, to gleam → c1440