Definition of "glister"

glister¹

verb
third-person singular simple present glisters, present participle glistering, simple past and past participle glistered
1. (intransitive, archaic) To gleam, glisten, or coruscate.
  Quotations
  All that gliſters is not gold.
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii]
  But, as the Phœnix on my Front doth gliſter, / Thou ſhalt the Finials of my Frame illuſtre.
  1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “[Du Bartas His First VVeek, or Birth of the VVorld: […].] The Fift Daie of the First VVeek.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, page 140
  […] strangely she glistered in the sun / as she leaped forth in the sun […]
  1945, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lay of Autrou and Itroun
noun
plural glisters
1. A brilliant flash; a glint

glister²

noun
plural glisters
1. Alternative form of clyster