[GLEAM sb. 1.] † a. Sunlight. Obs. b. A gleam of sunshine.

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  a. 1240.  Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 259. Aȝein þe brihtnesse ant te liht of his leor þe sunne-gleam is dosc.

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  1813.  Shelley, Q. Mab, III. 232. One faint April sun-gleam.

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1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 447. The bright sun-gleams and lengthening shadows of a most brilliant autumn.

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1885.  Athenæum, 23 May, 669/1. A foreground of whitish sun-blanched clay reflects a strong sun-gleam falling there.

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