noun
- luster; brightness; radiance.
- gleaming attire.
adjective
- shining.
- beautiful.
verb (used without object)
- Scot. and North England. to shine.
noun
- Fulton (John),1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
noun
- a gleaming or glistening brightness; lustre
- poetic splendid clothing
adjective
- rare shining and beautiful; radiant
n.“shining, brightness,” 1602 (first attested in “Hamlet” iii.2), noun use of adjective sheene “beautiful, bright,” from Old English scene, sciene “beautiful; bright, brilliant,” from Proto-Germanic *skauniz “conspicuous” (cf. Old Frisian skene, Middle Dutch scone, Dutch schoon, Old High German skoni, German schön “fair, beautiful;” Gothic skaunja “beautiful”), from PIE root *skeue- “to pay attention, perceive” (see caveat). Meaning “film of oil on water” is from 1970. As an adjective now only in poetic or archaic use, but in Middle English used after a woman’s name, or as a noun, “fair one, beautiful woman.”