[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That spangle(s); sparkling, glistening.
1665. Bunyan, Holy Citie, 25. O the Grace, the Light and Glory, that will strike with spangling Beams from this City.
1712. J. Morton, Nat. Hist. Northampt., 294. The Powder … exhibited a few Spangling Particles, tho’ we cou’d not discern any such in it at the first.
1792. S. Rogers, Pleas. Mem., Ep. to Friend, 153. His spangling shower when Frost the Wizard flings.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam., IV. i. Upon whose floor the spangling sands were strown.
1843. Le Fevre, Life Trav. Phys., II. II. vi. 241. The surface of the ground is one white spangling carpet.
