glow

UK /ɡləʊ/ US /ɡloʊ/
verb 6noun 5

Definitions

verb

1

To emit heat and light without a flame.

Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

2

Of a fire: to emit heat and light.

The fire was still glowing after ten hours.

The mettled Steeds, vvhen from their Noſtrils flovvs / The ſcorching Fire, that in their Entrails glovvs.

3

To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.

[N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]

The Temple ſhakes, the ſounding Gates unfold, / VVide Vaults appear, and Roofs of fretted Gold: / […] / Of bright, tranſparent Beryl vvere the VValls, / The Freezes Gold, and Gold the Capitals: / As Heaven vvith Stars, the Roof vvith Jevvels glovvs, / And ever living Lamps depend in Rovvs.

4

To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.

[T]he torrid Zone / Glovvs vvith the paſſing and repaſſing Sun.

Firſt vvith nice eye emerging Naiads cull / From leathery pods the vegetable vvool [cotton]; / VVith vviry teeth revolving cards releaſe / The tangled knots, and ſmooth the ravell'd fleece; / […] / Then fly the ſpoles, the rapid axles glovv, / And ſlovvly circumvolves the labouring vvheel belovv.

5

Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.

The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.

To vvhom the Angel vvith a ſmile that glovv'd / Celeſtial roſie red, Loves proper hue, / Anſvver'd.

noun

1

A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.

The struggling spark of good within, / Just smother'd in the strife of sin, / They quicken to a timely glow, / The pure flame spreading high and low.

My garden is the cloven rock, / And my manure the snow; / And drifting sand-heaps feed my stock, / In summer's scorching glow.

2

A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.

He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.

["]You must be frozen." / "Well, Lizzie, I ain't of a glow; that's certain. And my hands seemed nailed through to the sculls. See how dead they are!"

3

A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.

So if you find yourself regularly up late at night, basking in the TV's glow, you might be doing more than just depriving yourself of sleep.

4

A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.

He had a bright red glow on his face.

If you vvill ſee a pageant truely plaid / Betvveene the pale complexion of true Loue, / And the red glovve of ſcorne and provvd diſdaine, / Goe hence a little, and I ſhall conduct you / If you vvill marke it.

5

A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, / When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay; […]

[…] Romola felt herself surrounded and possessed by the glow of his passionate faith.

verb

1

To look intently; to stare.

Borgnoyer. To vvant an eye; to looke, or ſee but vvith one eye; […] alſo, to glovv, glote, or loure.

[A] thouſand frantick Spirits / Peep'd from the VVatry brink, and glovv'd upon me.

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