gleen
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gleen (third-person singular simple present gleens, present participle gleening, simple past and past participle gleened)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To glisten; to gleam.
- 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “The First Hymn of Callimachus to Jupiter”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- The sweaty forge, who edge the crooked scythe,
Bend stubborn steel , and harden gleening armour
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- “gleen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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gleen
- Alternative form of glewen (“to play music”)