Definitions for glister
ˈglɪs tərglis·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparklenoun

   the quality of shining with a bright reflected light

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glisternoun

   A brilliant flash; a glint

2. glisterverb

   To gleam, glisten or coruscate

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glisternoun

   Etymology: from ϰλύζω.

   Now enters Bush with new state airs,
   His lordship’s premier minister;
   And who, in all profound affairs,
   Is held as needful as his glister. Jonathan Swift.

   Choler is the natural glister, or one excretion whereby nature excludeth another; which, descending daily unto the bowels, extimulates those parts, and excites them unto expulsion. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 2.

2. To Glisterverb

   To shine; to be bright.

   Etymology: glittan, German; glisteren, Dutch.

   The wars flame most in Summer, and the helmets glister brightest in the fairest sunshine. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   How he glisters
   Through my dark rust! And how his piety
   Does my deeds make the blacker! William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   ’Tis better to be lowly born,
   And range with humble livers in content,
   Than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief,
   And wear a golden sorrow. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   The golden sun
   Gallops the zodiack in his glist’ring coach. William Shakespeare.

   All that glisters is not gold. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

   You were more the eye and talk
   Of the court to day, than all
   Else that glister’d in Whitehall. Ben Jonson, Underwoods.

   When the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire. 1 Mac. vi. 39.

   Glister’d in one snake, and into fraud
   Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the tree
   Of prohibition. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ix.

   It consisted not of rubies, yet the small pieces of it were of a pleasant redish colour, and glistered prettily. Boyle.

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1. glister

   Glister generally refers to a sparkling or glittering shine. Its origin is from Middle English and can be used as both a noun and a verb. As a noun, it describes a bright, shimmering, often superficial attractiveness, while as a verb, it represents the act of sparkling or shining.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glisterverb

   to be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter

2. Glisternoun

   glitter; luster

3. Etymology: [OE. glistren; akin to G. glistern,glinstern, D. glinsteren, and E. glisten. See Glisten.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glister

   glis′tėr, v.i. to sparkle, glitter.—adj. Glis′tering (Shak.), glittering. [M. E. glistren; see above.]

Matched Categories

1. • Brightness

Anagrams for glister »

1. gristle

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of glister in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of glister in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=glister
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Glister
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=glister
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glister
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=glister