Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glowed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.


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