Glow (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glowing.] [AS. glwan; akin to D. gloeijen, OHG. gluoen, G. gluhen, Icel. gla, Dan. gloende glowing. . Cf. Gloom.]
1.
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent.
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
Pope.
2.
To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
Dryden.
And glow with shame of your proceedings.
Shak.
3.
To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
Did not his temples glow
In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?
Addison.
The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
Gay.
4.
To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
Dryden.
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Pope.
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Glow, v. t.
To make hot; to flush.
[Poetic]
Fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
Shak.
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Glow, n.
1.
White or red heat; incandscence.
2.
Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
3.
Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
The red glow of scorn.
Shak.
4.
Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
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