sparkle (sparkl)

[ Foure gleedes han we, whiche I shal devyse, Avaunting, liyng, anger, coveitise, Thise foure sparkles longen unto elde. Chaucer, Prol. to Reeve's Tale, 1. 31. And drove his heel into the smoulder'd log, That sent a blast of sparkles up the flue. Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 2. The act or state of sparkling; emi ion of sparks or scintillations; sparkling luminosity or luster: used literally or figuratively. Swift as the sparkle of a glancing star I shoot from heaven, to give him safe convoy. Milton , Comus, 1. 80. A zest and sparkle ran through every part of the paper. G. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, II. 359.