that which shines.-a luminary.-a bright piece of money.-any one of numerous species of small freshwater american cyprinoid fishes, belonging to notropis, or minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the eastern united states; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.-the common lepisma, or furniture bug.