▪ I. gleaming, vbl. n.
(ˈgliːmɪŋ)
[f. gleam v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. gleam; a gleam.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 11777 There is no greuaunce so grete vndur god one, As the glemyng of gold, þat glottes þere hertis. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 198/2 Glemynge or lemynge of lyghte, conflagracio, flammacio. 1508 Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 202 He had the glemyng of gold, and wes bot glase fundin. 1720 Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xv. 409 For my sake it is..that Thou wast so exposed to the Gleamings of the Sun. 1771 Ann. Reg., Hist. Eur. 79*/2 Some gleamings of peace..appeared thro' all the horrors of war. |
▪ II. gleaming, ppl. a.
(ˈgliːmɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That gleams, in senses of the verb.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 70 Þe glemande glory þat of hem glent. 1450–70 Golagros & Gaw. 557 Gaudifeir and Galiot in glemand steil wedis..grymly thai ride. 1508 Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 108 Sa heklis he my chekis That as a glemand gleyd glowis my chaftis. 1671 Milton P.R. iii. 326 The field all iron cast a gleaming brown. 1769 Sir W. Jones Poems & Ess., Pal. Fort. (1777) 21 There hung enamour'd o'er the gleaming spoil. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth iv, A ring that sparkles like a gleaming candle. 1871 L. Stephen Playgr. Europe ix. (1894) 211 To watch the gleaming snow-line against the cloudless sky. |
| Comb. 1860 G. H. K. Vac. Tour. 135 Fringing many a sparkling loch and wild hill-side, may the sweet-scented gleaming-leaved birch be found. |
Hence ˈgleamingly adv.
| 1847 Tait's Mag. XIV. 156 Full gleamingly her flashing eye lit up her smile of scorn. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 3/1 Tunis seems sleeping in the sun down below, gleamingly white. |