cheerful, mirthful, frivolous, gleesome; glad, happy, bright, sunny, airy; joyous, jubilant, exultant, cock-a-hoop, overjoyed, beside oneself, glib, adj. slick, smooth, smooth-tongued, smooth-talking, smooth-spoken, fast-talking; oily, unctuous, suave, fluent, fluid, easy; talkative, loquacious, garrulous, voluble, prolix, verbose, long-winded, possessed of the gift of gab. glide, v. 1. slide, move smoothly, glissade, slip; skim, graze, brush; sail, skate, float, drift along; flow, stream, coast, roll, issue.
2. elapse, lapse, pass by, steal away, proceed, roll on.
3. Aeronautics, volplane, plane, soar, drift. -v. 4. continuous motion, smooth movement, sliding, glissade, gliding; floating, drifting, flowing, rolling, streaming, glimmer, n. 1. gleam, glare, fulguration, coruscation; shimmer, flicker, twinkle, glitter, Scot. glisk, sparkle, glistening; spark, scintilla, trace.
2. inkling, dim perception, vague notion, feeling.
-v. 3. gleam, glare, effulge, fulgurate, coruscate;
streak, stream, beam; glitter, glister, glint; shimmer, shine, flicker, sparkle, twinkle, glimpse, n. 1. brief look, look, glance, Fr. apergu, Scot. glisk, Fr. coup d'oeil. See glance (def 5).
2. inkling, vague notion, dim perception, feeling, -v. 3. catch sight of, Sl. get a load of, take in, look on or upon, set or lay eyes on, see with one's own eyes.
4. glance, look quickly or briefly, cast a brief look at, peep, peek. See glance (def. 1).
glint, n. 1. glimmer, glimmering, glinting, glisten ing, glistering; twinkle, twinkling, shining, sparkle, sparkling; spark, scintillation, scintilla; flicker, flickering, flutter, fluttering, quivering, shivering, ripple, rippling; shimmer, shimmering, dancing, dazzling, bedazzling, dazzle, bedazzlement; flash, flashing, flare, flaring, fulguration; gleam, gleaming, glare, glaring, coruscation.
2. luster, sheen, shine, gloss; polish, burnish, reflection, reflected light; glow, illumination, radiance, brilliance; incandescence, phosphorescence, iridescence, opalescence.
3. inkling, trace, vestige, scintilla; indication, evidence, impression; show, showing, apparition, emergence, brief manifestation or occurrence; happening, incident, incidence. -v. 4. glimmer, glitter, glisten, Archaic, glister; shine, sparkle, twinkle, light, spark, scintillate; flicker, blink, wink, flutter; quiver, shiver, ripple; shimmer, dance, dazzle, bedazzle; flash, flare, fulgurate, gleam, glare, coruscate; brighten, illuminate, illumine, make lustrous or radiant, glow; reflect, make iridescent, incandesce, phosphoresce.
5. dart, dartle, dash, Inf. scoot, scuttle, Inf. skedaddle; run, sprint, scud, tear; rush, hasten, hurry; fly, run like the wind, race, streak; bolt, bound, spring, leap; start quickly, Sl. tear off, Inf. take off. glisten, v. 1. glint, glimmer, glitter, Archaic. glister, reflect; sparkle, twinkle, flicker; blink, wink, flutter, flare or flare up; waver, sway, quiver, shiver, ripple; shimmer, dance, dazzle, bedazzle; light, spark, scintillate, flame; flash, fulgurate, gleam, glare, coruscate; oscillate, vacillate, fluctuate; move to and fro, undulate, vibrate; tremble, twitter, twitch, shudder.
2. glow, gleam faintly, shine; luminesce, incandesce, phosphoresce, make radiant or lustrous; illuminate, illumine, Archaic, illume, Obs. enlumine; brighten, light up, cast light upon, make brilliant or luminous; radiate, irradiate, effulge; shine forth, beam, stream. -n. 3. glint, glinting, glimmer, glimmering, glistening, glister, glistering, glittering; shining, sparkling, sparkle, spark, twinkling, twinkle, scintillation, scintilla; flickering, flicker, fluttering, flutter, quivering, quiver, shivering, shiver, rippling, ripple; shimmering, shimmer, dancing, dazzling, dazzle, bedazzling; flash, flare, fulguration, gleam, gleaming, glare, coruscation; oscillating, oscillation, vacillating, vacillation, fluctuating, fluctuation; undulation, undulating, vibrating, vibration, trembling, twittering, twitching, shuddering.