Luster; Lustre

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter. The right mark and very true luster of the diamond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.

2. Renown; splendor; distinction; glory. His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great luster. Sir H. Wotton.

3. A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. Pope.

4. The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.

5. A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

6. A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses. Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic] Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.