gleen

English

Etymology

Compare glance, glint.

Verb

gleen (third-person singular simple present gleens, present participle gleening, simple past and past participle gleened)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To glisten; to gleam.

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Part or all of this entry 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gleen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• engle, glene

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Middle English

Verb

gleen

1. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music”)