1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. ix. 37 He callyth the shynyng the illumynacion and glisnynge.

1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xv. 143 Rub the quicksilver till no glistening appears.

1791 F. Burney Diary July (1842) V. 219 The sweet Princess spoke feelings I could not expect, by the immediate glistening of her soft eyes.

1820 Med. Trans. (Royal Coll. of Physicians) 6 148 There was a muddy glistening in her eyes, which I had seen described.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 40 On the walls a glistening was here and there observable.

1873 T. W. Higginson Oldport Days iv. 91 Jelly-fishes..shot through and through in the sun-light with all manner of blue and golden glistenings.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd vi. 78 Clothing them [their faces] with divers colours, glissenings, paintings, unctions.

a1641 J. Suckling Farewell to Love (1648) vii. 48 The Gum and glistning, which with art And studi'd method, in each part Hangs down the heart, Looks (just) as if, that day Snailes there had crawl'd the Hay.

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Hab. iii. 11 In the liȝt of thin arrowis thei schulen go, in the schynyng of thi spere glisnynge.

a1400–50 Alexander 3015 His ginge & all his garysons in glyssynand wedis, Gaes him on to granton & graithes þare his tentis.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts x. f. xl A certayne man..stoode visible before me, in a glystenynge garmente.

1726 J. Thomson Winter 10 The bleating Kind Eye the bleak Heavens, and next, the glistening Earth, With Looks of dumb Despair.

1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 133 The tuneful Goddess on the glowing sky Fix'd in mute extacy her glistening eye.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 28 But it is the glistening and softly spoken lie..that [etc.].

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xiv. 63 A bright golden cloud Gathered, and shed its drops of glistening dew.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Luisantemente,..glisteningly.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 71 Glisteningly beneath the Maynight moon. Herbage and floral coverture bedeck Yon splintered mass.