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Meanings of glister in English

The quality of shining with a bright reflected light.

        Usage of glister in English
        1
        You can see the dark smudge in the glister of the dewdrops.
        In Search of the Okapi / A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
        2
        Another day, another star from the light entertainment firmament loses his glister.
        The Guardian
        3
        Two others were very remarkable for glister-pouches that dangled at their waist.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
        4
        The palm trees took on the hard glister of metal leaves.
        Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
        5
        Despite the keen wind, a glister of sweat-drops studded his forehead.
        Darkness and Dawn
        6
        Below lay the glister of water, real water and no mirage, glassy, gray and sinister.
        The Freebooters of the Wilderness
        7
        Presently the watcher perceived that a myriad spider-webs filled the sunshine with a delicate dancing glister.
        Birthright: A Novel
        8
        It needs the glister of genuinely imaginative architects.
        The Guardian
        9
        Sometimes a shaft of light, a sudden luminous glister, betokened the motion of the currents gliding in the sheen.
        The Phantom Of Bogue Holauba / 1911
        10
        They seemed to be attracted, just as he was, by that abominable slimy flow and glister of the asphalt.
        The Divine Fire
        11
        I'd ruther say the glister of light'd gone to your eyes, and the snap of the air to your tongue.'
        The Son of the Wolf
        12
        When at last we reached them the wicked glister of their purple flanks seemed like a volcanic upheaval of the plain.
        In Morocco
        13
        Above her Jenny saw the black glister of scales, the swirl of stars and darkness, mane and spines and iron-barbed tail.
        Dragonshadow
        14
        Instead a sea-bird, attracted by the glister of the morning sun on the buttons of his shirt, wheeled away with a frightened squawk.
        The drawing of the three
        15
        Most of us also use the lancet, and can even "spread a plaster, or give a glister," when necessary; but the Indians seldom trouble us.
        Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territ...
        16
        The beam glistered across a red pool on a white tile floor.
        Fear nothing
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        Glister through the time