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Glow v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowed p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --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.
glowing
adj 1: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
"glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the
lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p),
lambent, lucent, luminous]
2: highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise"
n : the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving
at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow]