Definition of "glister" [glis•ter]

• To glisten. (verb-intransitive)
• Glitter; brilliance. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "An 'regular fall weather it was -- the glint o' the sun on the golden larch an 'the quakin' aspens; an 'the glister of light on ivery ripple; an' beyand, the winter an 'the blue haze of the North comin' down hand in hand."
• "I'd ruther say the glister of light'd gone to your eyes, and the snap of the air to your tongue. '"
• "Its branches, more gray then green, shine with a metallic glister and give little shade."