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English
Etymology
Compare glance, glint.
Verb
gleen (third-person singular simple present gleens, present participle gleening, simple past and past participle gleened)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To glisten; to gleam.
1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “The First Hymn of Callimachus to Jupiter”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:The sweaty forge, who edge the crooked scythe,
Bend stubborn steel , and harden gleening armour
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Middle English
Verb
gleen
- Alternative form of glewen (“to play music”)