Verb

(en verb)

To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

To radiate some emotional quality like light.

* Dryden

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .

* Alexander Pope

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .

To gaze especially passionately at something.

To radiate thermal heat.

To shine brightly and steadily.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

To make hot; to flush.

* Shakespeare

Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

* Addison

Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

* John Gay

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.