GLINTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glinting mean? 

• GLINTING (adjective)
  The adjective GLINTING has 1 sense:

1. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

  Familiarity information: GLINTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLINTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

Synonyms:

aglitter; coruscant; fulgid; glinting; glistering; glittering; glittery; scintillant; scintillating; sparkly

Context example:

'glistering' is an archaic term

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

I looked down at the brown glory of her hair, glinting gems in the sunshine far more precious to me than those in the treasure-chests of kings.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He emptied the hundred gold pieces into her lap in a glinting, tinkling stream.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And for the moment the apparition of the gale rose before his eyes—a gale at night, with a clear sky and under a full moon, the huge seas glinting coldly in the moonlight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun was lying low in the west and shooting its level rays across the long sweep of rich green country, glinting on the white-fleeced sheep and throwing long shadows from the red kine who waded knee-deep in the juicy clover.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)