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glint
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a glint/hint of mischief (= an expression that shows someone wants to play tricks ) ▪ There was a glint of mischief in her eyes. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB off ▪ Although the sun glinted off its scales, Rincewind ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glint \Glint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glinted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting .] [OE. glenten. Cf. Glance , v. i., Glitter , v. i.] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. --Burns.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A short flash of light. vb. 1 To flash briefly. 2 To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
Usage examples of glint.
Round the corner of the narrow street there came rushing a brace of whining dogs with tails tucked under their legs, and after them a white-faced burgher, with outstretched hands and wide-spread fingers, his hair all abristle and his eyes glinting back from one shoulder to the other, as though some great terror were at his very heels.
It was as if the Southern Welt had been emptied in its entirety, and sunlight glinted off the armor that some of the Aerians were strong enough to bear in full flight.
Despite a room full of people, she always had a glint in her eyes that belonged only to him.
An Arcadian Niphetos Pardalia, or snow leopard, the woman had a glint in her eye that reminded everyone there that women were far more bloodthirsty than the men.
The Archdeacon, glinting rather like a small, frosty pool, took it and opened it.
Tycho was an argumentative soul who, once, in a duel, had the end of his nose snipped off, and thereafter always had to appear in public with a neat silver tip glinting in the light.
It arose above the vapor and hovered for a moment, the moons glinting on its fusilage.
He glanced around the room helplessly a moment, then his eyes settled on Bender, drawing down to a steely glint.
The caiman stared at Nate between the roots, mouth gaping open, teeth glinting with menace.
Where he and his men were better known, a glimpse of their crimson capes was enough to make strong men blanch, and the glint off their polished armor was enough to make an enemy break and run.
Some had been cooler than others, Centaine reflected with a steely glint in her eye as she picked them out amongst the crowd, and she would remember them.
They stood at the transparency and watched the light of Alpha Centauri A glint off the flanks of the Crucian ships.
We were in a small bay then, its shores a dark sweep of sediment, grey slopes streaked with black and the metallic glints of cuprous green.
Veda, with a sly glint in her eyes, held her hand out to Darr Veter and lie lifted her out of the Lushes with an easy movement.
In the middle of this picture stood the Mardian dolmen, unencumbered now, glinting with frost as if, incongruously, it had been tinselled for the occasion.