glint

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A momentary flash of light; a sparkle.
• noun A faint or fleeting indication; a trace.
• intransitive verb To gleam or give out small flashes of light, usually by reflection: synonym: flash.
• intransitive verb To be reflected in small flashes.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A gleam; a shimmer of light, as through a chink; a flash, as of lightning.
• noun A glimpse; a momentary view.
• Slippery.
• To shine; gleam; glance; show suddenly, as a gleam of light or a flash of lightning, or an objeet appearing and disappearing.
• To glance; turn the eyes.
• To glance aside; pass by.
• To pass quickly or suddenly, like a gleam of light.
• To reflect in glints or flashes.
• To cast; throw; put aside.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Scot. A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
• transitive verb To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
• transitive verb To glance; to turn.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun short flash of light
• verb to flash briefly

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb throw a glance at; take a brief look at
• noun a spatially localized brightness
• verb be shiny, as if wet
• noun a momentary flash of light