sparkle
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sparkle (plural sparkles)
- A little spark; a scintillation.
- Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
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scintillation
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- French: scintiller (verbe), scintillant (adjectif)
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to sparkle (third-person singular simple present sparkles, present participle sparkling, simple past and past participle sparkled)
- (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
- A mantelet upon his shoulder hanging Bretful of rubies red, as fire sparkling. -- Chaucer.
- (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
- I see bright honor sparkle through your eyes. --- Milton.
- (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.
- (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
- Did sparkle forth great light. -- Spenser
- (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
- The Landgrave hath sparkled his army without any further enterprise. --State Papers.
- (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.
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[edit] References
- sparkle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
