Definition of "glisten"

glisten

/ˈɡlɪsən/

verb
third-person singular simple present glistens, present participle glistening, simple past and past participle glistened
1. (intransitive, of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash.
  Quotations
  The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 202
noun
plural glistens
1. A glistening shine from a wet surface.
  Quotations
  In his clear northern flesh and his fair hair was a glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice.
  1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love