(intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow. / (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light. / (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.

Brightness from a source of light. / Brightness from reflected light. / Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour. / Shoeshine. / Sunshine. / (slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.

(transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something). / (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

(US, military, slang, vulgar) Chipped beef on toast.

Reflecting light. / Emitting light. / (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable. / (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.

One who shines; a luminary. / One who causes things to shine; a polisher. / (colloquial) A black eye. / coon eyes / (slang, dated) A bright piece of money, especially a sovereign.

A noisy party or festivities. / A noisy argument.

(idiomatic) To open an office or business, especially in a profession.

(pathology, informal) Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.