v.
  - shine brightly, especially with reflected light.
- (of an emotion) be expressed by a person's eyes.
n.
  - a faint or brief light.
- a brief or faint instance of a quality or emotion.
Phrase
  
    
      - a gleam in someone's eye
 see eye.
 
  Derivative
  
    - gleaming adj.
- gleamingly adv.
- gleamy adj. (archaic).
 
  Etymology
  OE glæm ‘brilliant light’, of Gmc origin.