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Webster 1913 Edition

Glow

Glow

(glō)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glowed
(glōd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Glowing
.]
[AS.
glōwan
; akin to D.
gloeijen
, OHG.
gluoen
, G.
glühen
, Icel.
glōa
, Dan.
gloende
glowing. √94. Cf.
Gloom
.]
1.
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Glow

,
Verb.
T.
To make hot; to flush.
[Poetic]
Fans, whose wind did seem
To
glow
the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
Shakespeare

Glow

,
Noun.
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.
Shakespeare
4.
Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glow

GLOW

, v.i.
1.
To shine with intense heat; or perhaps more correctly, to shine with a white heat; to exhibit incandescence. Hence, in a more general sense, to shine with a bright luster.
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
2.
To burn with vehement heat.
The scorching fire that in their entrails glows.
3.
To feel great heat of body; to be hot.
Did not his temples glow
In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
4.
To exhibit a strong bright color; to be red.
Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
Fair ideas flow,
Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow.
5.
To be bright or red with heat or animation, or with blushes; as glowing cheeks.
6.
To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, &c.
We say, the heart glows with love or zeal; the glowing breast.
When real virtue fires the glowing bard.
If you have never glowed with gratitude to the author of the christian revelation, you know nothing of christianity.
7.
To burn with intense heat; to rage; as passion.
With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.

GLOW

,
Verb.
I.
To heat so as to shine. [Not used.]

GLOW

,
Noun.
Shining heat, or white heat.
1.
Brightness of color; redness; as the glow of health in the cheeks.
A waving glow his bloomy beds display,
Blushing in bright diversities of day.
2.
Vehemence of passion.

Definition 2024

glow

glow

See also: głów

English

Verb

glow ‎(third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past and past participle glowed)

  1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
    The fire was still glowing after ten hours.‎
  2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
    The zealots glowed with religious fervor.‎
    You are glowing from happiness!‎
    • Dryden
      With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
    • Alexander Pope
      Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
  3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  4. To radiate thermal heat.
    Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.‎
    After their workout, the gymnasts' faces were glowing red.‎
  5. To shine brightly and steadily.
    The new baby's room glows with bright, loving colors.‎
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
  6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
    • Shakespeare
      Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
  7. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
    • Addison
      Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
    • John Gay
      The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

Translations

Noun

glow ‎(uncountable)

  1. The state of a glowing object.
    • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
      The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
    He had a bright red glow on his face.

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Anagrams

Etymology

From Middle English glowen, probably from the Old English glōwan, though this is disputed because the corresponding words in Old Saxon and Old High German are dissimilar, glōian and gluoen respectively. It may instead be from an Old Norse word, glóa. Its ultimate root is probably Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European. Compare West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish glo. See also glass.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡləʊ/, [ˈɡləʊ̯]
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡloʊ/, [ˈɡloʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

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