A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye. Synonyms:black eye, mouse.
2.
Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light).
3.
Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales. Synonyms:common mackerel, Scomber scombrus.
4.
Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis.
... de winder An' kip jus' so quiet lak wan leetle mouse, She say de more finer moon never was shiner— Very fonny, for moon isn't ... — The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... costume, more or less becoming, that is between getting up and going out, we wear a shoe on our left hand, and with the other manipulate the helpful sponge. Sometimes, too anxious, it polka-dots our white garments, sometimes the floor; it is safe only in the bottle, and the wisest shiner will perhaps approach the job as an Adamite, bestriding, like a colossus, a wide-spread newspaper, and taking a bath afterward. Or it may be that instead of the bottle we have a little tin box, wedded to its cover,—how often have we not exclaimed ... — The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren
... I coin? Would he have me go on the highway? Who ever giv'd me thirty pounds? Marry come up! Thirty pounds? Why I came to Wenbourne-Hill with thrums immee pouch. Not a brass farthin more. And now show me the he or the hurr—Shiner for shiner—Hool a cry hold first?—Thos as to the matter of that, younker, why that's a nether here nor there; that's a nothink to you dolt. I never axt you for nothink. Who begottee and sentee into the world but I? Who found ee in bub and grub but I? Didn'tee run about as ragged as any colt ... — Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
...
