Gleam
Gleam , intransitive verb
[Compare Old English glem birdlime, glue, phlegm, and English englaimed.]
(Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Gleam , noun
[Old English glem, gleam, Anglo-Saxon glam, prob. akin to English glimmer, and perh. to Greek {not transcribed} warm, {not transcribed} to warm. Compare Glitter.]
1.
A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Transient unexpected gleams of joi.
At last a gleam
Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste
His [Satan's] traveled steps.
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.
2.
Brightness; splendor.
In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
Gleam , transitive verb
1.
To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
2.
To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
Gleam , transitive verb
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.