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beglisten en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“about”) + glisten.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To glisten all about.
   • I see a deep deep sky, Which wears a crown of gold-tipped clouds, In which beglisten stars. 1998, Patience Worth, The Light from Beyond:
2. (transitive) To cause or make to glisten all about.
   • But here, methinks, most witching-succulent For orgy of Elsinore, 't were this old wine Of Capri's isle, beglisten'd with aquamarine Of the groined grotto, where the naked diver Turns fish of silver, in the upslanting gold Of liquid-burning [...] 1950, Percy MacKaye, The mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark:

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