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Answer for the clue "Beaming broadly ", 5 letters:
agrin

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Word definitions for agrin in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Agrin is a large proteoglycan whose best-characterised role is in the development of the neuromuscular junction during embryogenesis . Agrin is named based on its involvement in the aggregation of acetylcholine receptors during synaptogenesis . In humans, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agrin \A*grin"\ ([.a]*gr[i^]n"), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + grin.] In the act of grinning. ``His visage all agrin.'' --Tennyson.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face Etymology 2 n. (context neuroscience English) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development

Usage examples of agrin.

Reuben sat his horse beside me, with his spare shirt streaming in the wind and his great pikemen all agrin behind him, though his thoughts and his eyes were too far away to note them.

At the Royal Canal bridge, from his hoarding, Mr Eugene Stratton, his blub lips agrin, bade all comers welcome to Pembroke township.

Another minute brought them up with the rear-guard, where every man marched with his beard on his shoulder and a face which was agrin with merriment.

Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.

Another minute brought them up with the rear-guard, where every man marched with his beard on his shoulder and a face which was agrin with merriment.