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.]
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1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth
vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
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Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
--Pope.
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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.
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Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
--Dryden.
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And glow with shame of your proceedings. --Shak.
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3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin,
from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
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Did not his temples glow
In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?
--Addison.
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The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
--Gay.
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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.
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With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
--Dryden.
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Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
--Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
glowing \glowing\ adj.
1. softly bright or radiant.
Syn: aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent.
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2. highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise.
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3. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.
Syn: fluorescent.
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4. afire; as, glowing embers. [prenominal]
Syn: burning.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
302 Moby Thesaurus words for "glowing":
Titian, Titian-red, ablaze, adhesive, afire, aflame, aflicker,
aglow, alight, ardent, avid, beaming, beamy, beatific, beatified,
blazing, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, blooming, blowzed,
blowzy, blushing, boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky,
bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning,
burning with excitement, burnt, candent, candescent, capering,
cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cheerful, cheery,
cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chirping, chromatic, cold,
colorific, coloring, comburent, complimentary, conflagrant, cool,
cordial, crimson, damask, dancing, dazzling, delirious, desirous,
devastating, dichromatic, divine, drunk, eager, elated, emphatic,
encomiastic, enthused, enthusiastic, enthusiastic about,
eulogistic, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, excited, exciting,
exhilarated, exuberant, favorable, febrile, ferruginous, fervent,
fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, fire-red, flagrant,
flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flaring, flickering, florid,
flush, flushed, flushed with joy, flushing, full of enthusiasm,
full-blooded, fuming, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, glamorous,
gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glorious, gluey, gooey, gorgeous,
gules, gung-ho, guttering, happy, harmonious, hearty, heated,
heavenly, hectic, het up, high, hopeful, hot, hot-blooded,
ignescent, ignited, illuminant, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow,
in flames, in good spirits, in high spirits, in rut, incandescent,
incarmined, infatuated with, inflamed, infrared, intense,
intoxicated, iron-red, irradiative, irrepressible, joyful, joyous,
keen, keen on, killing, kindled, lake-colored, laky, lambent,
lamping, lateritious, laudatory, laughing, leaping, light as day,
live, lively, living, lobster-red, luciferous, lucific, luciform,
luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lurid,
lustrous, many-colored, maroon, matching, medley, monochromatic,
monochrome, monochromic, motley, of good cheer, on fire,
optimistic, orient, panegyrical, parti-colored, passionate,
pigmentary, pleasant, polychromatic, port-wine, prismatic,
provoking, puce, purring, radiant, rainbow, raving, ravishing, red,
red-complexioned, red-dyed, red-faced, red-fleshed, red-hot,
red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown,
reeking, resplendent, rhapsodic, riant, rich, rosy, rosy-cheeked,
rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored,
ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced,
rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, rutilant, rutilous,
sanguine, sanguineous, scarlet, scintillant, scintillating,
seething, sexually excited, shining, shiny, singing, smiling,
smirking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, sparkling, spectral,
splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stammel, starbright, starlike,
starry, starry-eyed, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring,
stodgy, streaming, stunning, sublime, suffused, sunburned, sunny,
sunshiny, thrice happy, tile-red, tinctorial, tingent, toning,
unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, urgent, variegated,
vehement, vermilion, vibrant, vigorous, vinaceous, warm, wine,
wine-colored, wine-red, winsome, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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