intransitive verb. To shine by reflection with a sparkling luster: synonym: flash.

intransitive verb. To be reflected with a sparkling luster.

noun. A sparkling, lustrous shine.

To shine gleamingly; sparkle with light; especially, to shine with a scintillating or twinkling light: as, glistening snow; the glistening stars; his face glistened with pleasure.

Synonyms Glister, Glitter, etc. See glare, intransitive verb

noun. Glitter; sparkle; gleam.

intransitive verb. To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam.

verb. to reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash

noun. A glittering shine; a scintillation, sparkle or flash.

noun. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light

verb. be shiny, as if wet

"His eyes glisten from a web of wrinkles, and I can imagine an event for each line drawn: flying in Vietnam, coaching the Port Arthur Toreadors for fifteen years, losing a wife named Marguerite to encephalitis, losing his only child to the state of California."

brightness  

bisson  christen  frison  ison  listen  

darkle  glister  scintillation  sheen  shimmer  

blink  blinking  coruscate  coruscation  firefly  

glistened  glistening  glistens