verb

give out or reflect small flashes of light.

her glasses glinted in the firelight

shine,gleam,catch the light,glitter,sparkle,twinkle,blink,wink,glimmer,shimmer,glow,flicker,glisten,flash,reflect light,glister,coruscate,scintillate,fulgurate,effulge,luminesce,incandesce,phosphoresce