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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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.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To close one's eyes.

* Shakespeare

I will wink , so shall the day seem night.

* Tillotson

They are not blind, but they wink .

(archaic) To turn a blind eye.

*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:

Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.

* Herbert

And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.

* John Locke

Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.

(intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.

He winked at me.

She winked her eye.

To twinkle.

To be dim and flicker.

The light winks .

To send an indication of agreement by winking.