Glitter \Glit"ter\, n. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. --Milton.
Glitter \Glit"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glittered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glittering}.] [OE. gliteren; akin to Sw. glittra, Icel. glitra, glita, AS. glitenian, OS. gl[=i]tan, OHG. gl[=i]zzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, and also to E. glint, glisten, and prob. glance, gleam.] 1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. --Dryden.
2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
Syn: To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See {Gleam}, {Flash}.
The audience has little of the glitter of, say, Spoleto.
Transfers are shaded and colored and can be combined with regular and glitter paints for maximum effect.
The industry welcomed them in its way, with ceremony and glitter.
Wahl avoids the glitter of show business like the plague.
But don't expect the coins to glitter like gold.
That was a long, long time ago, when Russia still had a czar and the Slonimskys added much to the intellectual glitter of St. Petersburg.
Some of the glitz and glitter has gone, done in by the loss of thousands of highly-paid jobs.
"What has happened the last two days has certainly taken the glitter off the Super Bowl," said Dick Anderson, a former Miami Dolphin player and chairman of a host city committee spending $2 million this week to enhance Miami's image.
The stone found in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds park in 1977, was loaned to Clinton by no less than Stan Kahn of Kahn's Jewelry in Pine Bluff. Alas, the watching millions caught not a glimpse of the glitter.
The World War II pilot-turned-tycoon, who sold MGM-UA Communications Co. last month for $1.3 billion, is known for trading casinos and airplanes the way some people do cars, more Las Vegas glitter than Detroit grit.
Pronouncing on Soviet violations of old treaties would steal the glitter from a summit to sign new ones.
The Japanese assault on the U.S. luxury-car market has grabbed the spotlight, but just beneath all that glitter, Honda is aiming its bread-and-butter Accord at the heart of Detroit's home market: midsized, midpriced, family cars.
Ms. Tannenbaum, a retired bookeeper from Tamarac, personalizes the yarmulkes using acrylic paint and glitter.
The glitter business, known for choking our tubes with glitz, gore and cheap canned thrills, decided to be sober, industrious and subdued this year.
That music promised glitter and elegance, which isn't exactly the kind of life she fell into in New York as the wife of a penniless boxer.
The long curved half-dowels which open or close the reeds often are covered with gold Mylar tape, which gives even more glitter than the once traditional gold paint and is a lot easier to apply.
Gluing is the only medium that will attach glitter particles satisfactorily.
But glitz and glitter is not what River Phoenix is all about.
The glitter of the casinos that began operating here 12 years ago is fading, and many say a billion-dollar Donald Trump resort could make or break Atlantic City following its debut next week.
Nor is all the glitter gone.
Even in Koala Blue's happier days, licensees say they found that being associated with glitter can be expensive.
The glitter of modern jewellery, yours for a king's ransom, may have magpie appeal but it is easy to tire of its insistent brand of glamour.