A short flash of light, usually when reflected off a shiny surface.
I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.
A brief look; a glance.
"My name is Elphinstone, ma'am," said the young man, and then he cleared his throat and gave a glint at Mary, and grew redder in the face than ever.
Not sharp; dull.
The knife is glint.
15th century. Borrowed from Scots glint, from Middle English glenten (“to shine, gleam; flash”), probably from Old Norse *glenta, from Proto-Germanic *glantijaną, causitive of Proto-Germanic *glintaną...
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To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
The rising sun owre Galston muirs, / Wi' glorious light was glintin'
To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
The scientists theorized that a meteoroid, ranging in size from a speck of dust to a marble, might have struck the satellite and chipped off a bit of debris that glinted a ray of sun back on the Vela's second sensor […]