aglint

[ uh-glint ]

adjective

1. displaying bright points of light, as by reflection; glittering:

   a diamond tiara aglint under the ballroom lights.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aglint¹

First recorded in 1875–80; a- ¹ + glint

Example Sentences

Executioners hover over them, dressed in black, knives aglint.

From Los Angeles Times

The man who never saw anything in a rose aglint in the sunlight or in a lily asleep in the moonlight, but a species of useless vegetable, the inferior of the cabbage and the onion.

From Project Gutenberg

His step was springy, his shoulders squared, his eyes aglint with reminiscence as he strode on to the West Point parade ground to review the Corps of Cadets.

From Time Magazine Archive

So silent was the vast stretch of mountain wilderness, aglint with the dew, that the tinkle of a rill far below in the black abyss seemed less a sound than an evidence of the pervasive quietude, since so slight a thing, so distant, could compass so keen a vibration.

From Project Gutenberg

A long expanse of the Hudson was in sight from where he stood, its broad, rippled surface aglint in the September sunshine.

From Project Gutenberg