Glow \Glow\ (gl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glowed} (gl[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Glowing}.] [AS. gl[=o]wan; akin to D. gloeijen, OHG. gluoen, G. gl["u]hen, Icel. gl[=o]a, Dan. gloende glowing. [root]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. --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.
Glow \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. --Shak.
4. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
Glow \Glow\, v. t. To make hot; to flush. [Poetic]
Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. --Shak.
But suddenly survivalists have a glow in their eyes again.
"I am always trying to promote compassion and good heart," he says, the glow returning to his face. "Not as a religious ideal, but rather as a humanitarian idea.
Bright sunshine slanting through the budding trees gave a roseate glow to the white-columned Georgian brick buildings.
She described it as "a greenish glow." For Hazelwood, who has a history of drunken driving convictions and is accused of intoxication on the fateful night, one fact mentioned by every crew member was important.
A diesel engine has no electric ignition, which removes at a stroke the main cause of roadside breakdowns. For starting from cold, a diesel has glow plugs.
Because shows such as "Dynasty" must tiptoe around sex talk, Aaron Spelling Productions has set its new ABC show "Heartbeat" in a women's clinic, where it can be right out in the open, couched in the glow of healthy openness.
As the glow gets brighter, the rider applies the foot brake, dismounts and lifts the contraption from the rails.
The pictures are made by injecting dye into the body, which causes small veins in the eye to glow fluorescently, making it easier to diagnose problems.
The comedy basks in the glow of confidence that arrived with the end of World War II.
If you add in state taxes, especially those nondeductible sales taxes, the rosy glow fades even more.
Mice being tested with such treatments literally glow in the dark, Dr. Shumaker said.
Around the citadel's six-mile perimeter of tall brick ramparts, the water in its moats took on the purple and orange glow of the sky overhead.
Plans are for the 36 tall elm trees along one side of the square to glow with red and green lights provided by General Electric, with an amplified reading of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke.
From the open doors and windows of houses by the roadside came the flickering warm light of kerosene lamps; from the trees and vegetable plots and clearings around them came the colder, steadier, phosphorescent glow of a thousand fireflies.
Selfishness is exposed like an ugly boil; loyality, optimism and honesty glow.
At night, the glass-brick columns and white globes atop twisted lamp poles add illumination to the glow of colored lights and the sparkle of fountains.
Vanessa Redgrave, possessed of a seraphic intensity not seen since the Delphic Sybil, spreads a glow over the early scenes.
But this week, basking in the glow of his stunning Michigan caucus victory, pictured on the cover of Time and Newsweek, drawing boisterous crowds from one town to the next, he could not match the expectations that had been set for him.
We've had to wrap some of them in plastic now, just to protect them." The collection includes elegant high heels, slippers with giant pompons and one pair with battery-operated, five-inch heels that glow.
On the tarmac, the moon casts a ghostly glow over a wartime bomber, and all that is missing is a shout of "scramble!" But there is no stampede to battle stations this hot summer night.
On dry days, however, the glow vanished.
Peter the Great founded the city in 1703 as an act of will to demonstrate that Russia could be dragged out of the medieval darkness into the glow of the enlightenment.
But as Bush well knows, presidents before him have enjoyed the glow of favorable circumstances only to suffer the sudden chill of events gone sour.
The Explorer will measure "the collective glow of all the stars and galaxies and whatever else has been there since the beginning," project scientist John Mather said.
The vast stretch of America, beyond the nighttime glow of cities, where stars and a few street lights mean rural life, has been shrinking and struggling for decades.
On one side of the room the horse players occupy rows of walnut carrels, students of chance huddled over Racing Forms opened under the glow of study lamps, figuring, figuring.
"This was a gut-wrenching decision," she said. "This is home for me, and this is the best job I ever had." Christmas decorations still glow each night in downtown Delano.
Just outside the glow of the Plaza's lights a wheezing, fly-by-night Moscovitch skulks.
Four Siberians from Tomsk were recovering in the camp after a stormy ascent of Khan Tengri, a legendary marble mountain further up our side of the glacier which is said to glow pink on fine evenings.
The additive, which among other things gives marachino cherries their bright glow, "represents a completely unnecessary risk of cancer to American consumers," said William B. Schultz, an attorney for Public Citizen.