Shine
- v. i. Shining; sheen.
- v. i. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
- v. i. To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
- v. i. To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
- v. i. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
- v. t. To cause to shine, as a light.
- v. t. To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
- n. The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
- n. Sunshine; fair weather.
- n. A liking for a person; a fancy.
- 1v. i. 1 Shining; sheen.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.