Citations:agrin

Adjective: "grinning or appearing pleased"

 * 1847 — Alfred Tennyson, The Princess:
 * Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave
 * Among the thickest and bore down a Prince,
 * And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream
 * All that I would. But that large-moulded man,
 * His visage all agrin as at a wake,
 * Made at me through the press, and, staggering back
 * With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came
 * As comes a pillar of electric cloud,
 * Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,
 * And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes
 * 1849 — Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter III:
 * When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.