Word Meanings - GLEEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To glisten; to gleam. Prior.

Related words: (words related to GLEEN)

• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• GLISTEN
  To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars. Syn. -- See Flash. (more info) glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See Glitter, v. i., and cf.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• GLEAM
  To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
• GLEAMY
  Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.
• PRIORY
  A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the
• PRIORLY
  Previously. Geddes.
• PRIOR
  Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used (more info) compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former, and
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• AGLEAM
  Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
• FOREGLEAM
  An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.
• A PRIORI
  Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.