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1. Be shiny, as if wet
   "His eyes were gleaming";
   - glitter, glisten, glint, shine
    
2. Shine brightly, like a star or a light
   - glimmer
    
3. To shine with faint or brief light
   "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"

1. An appearance of reflected light
   - gleaming, glow, lambency
    
2. A flash of light (especially reflected light)
   - gleaming, glimmer

Derived forms: gleams, gleamed, gleaming

Type of: appear, come along, effulgence, flash, look, radiance, radiancy, radiate, refulgence, refulgency, seem, shine

Encyclopedia: Gleam