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Glow   /gloʊ/   Listen
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



... through the hole like an arrow, crossed a big kitchen, and disappeared through another hole on the opposite side near the range. As one sees telegraph posts out of the train so Bubi saw that kitchen. By the hearth, in the glow of the fire, lay an enormous cat, the dreadful Don Pedro, its great whiskers heaving up ...
— Perez the Mouse • Luis Coloma
... block. The great writer, moreover, takes us with him into new places, among new scenes, so that Rugby becomes for a time our own school, and from Tim's poor hearth there enters a warm Christmas glow into our doubting hearts. Although the plot is important, yet all stories that enthral the mind with exciting incidents must be regarded with suspicion until they prove their right to be considered real literature by furnishing ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... keenly cold, but windless; and in the purplish sky, the wintry crown of stars burned with silvery lustre, unlike the golden glow of constellations throbbing in sultry summer, and their white fires sparkled, flared as if blown by interstellar storms. The large family of Lazarus huddled over dying embers on darkening hearths, and ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... is not narrow, it takes in every phase of training that is essential to produce a well developed and useful life. It touches and tints industrial training with a brighter and richer glow. It quickens the faculties of the mind, adds keenness to the power of perception, forms permanent habits of industry and strengthens the will or ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... over the Llano Estacado, his beams gilding with ruddy glow the brown basaltic cliffs that enclose the valley of ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid


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