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noun

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."

4.

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

verb

Glow v. t. To make hot; to flush. (Poetic) "Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool."

Glow v. i. (past & past part. glowed; pres. part. glowing)

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."

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." "And glow with shame of your proceedings."

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?" "The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands."

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." "Burns with one love, with one resentment glows."

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"Glow" Quotes from Famous Books

... blessed and lighted the great bonfire before the church; and immediately, at this signal, an answering fire sprang up on a hill at the other side of the village. Then fire on fire glittered and multiplied, till all the village was in a glow. This was a custom set in memory of the old days when fires flashed intelligence, after a fixed code, across the great rivers and lakes, and from hill ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... rises, and we are in the depths of the Rhine; water-nymphs sport about; Alberich, an evil being of the river, tries in vain to catch them. The water grows brighter with the rising of the sun, and the Rhinegold is seen to glow on the summit of a high rock. Defeated in his attempts to capture a nymph, Alberich scales the rock, seizes the gold and makes off with it. The silly creatures have told him that their innocent toy, shaped into a ring, would ...

— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman

... passed at length, as all nights pass. The sun rose over purple hills to glow upon the spring-stirred forest and to send golden shafts deep down into the clear heart of lake and stream. The fallen beauty of past woodland summers had tinged the water till it glowed like nut-brown wine; so brown it was that the pools of the river, where ...

— A Dozen Ways Of Love • Lily Dougall

... Ethel noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a watch ...

— In the Clutch of the War-God • Milo Hastings

... vision all thy life, Of strenuous toil; the cabin low and rude; The meagre fare; the blazing logs whose glow Illumed the pages of inspired bards, Shakespeare and Bunyan; prophets, priests and seers; The darkling forest where thy ringing axe Chimed with the music of the waterfall; The eager flood bearing thy rugged raft Swift footed through an ever changing world ...

— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various

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