glown.
/ɡləʊ/, U.S. /ɡloʊ/ 1. The state or condition of glowing with heat.
a. Shining heat; in a glow (cf. aglow adv. and adj.).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > great or intense heat > glowing
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excandescence1684
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1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xliii. 171 The struggling spark of good within..They quicken to a timely glow.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 57 Drifting sand heaps feed my stock, In summer's scorching glow.
1850 D. G. Mitchell Reveries of Bachelor 82 But my fire is in a glow.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 77 The merest point remains in a state of glow.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 56 The electrical glow is therefore produced by the constant passage of electricity through a small portion of air in which the tension is very high.
b. A lively sensation of animal heat; in phrases in a glow, (all) of a glow (colloquial).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > hot sensation
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1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 194 The glow experienced in coming out of a cold bath.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 353 In chasing each other round the decks, they had excited a genial glow of heat in their bodies.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica iii. 75 In a few minutes a comfortable glow succeeded.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 56 ‘Sit close to the fire... You must be frozen.’ ‘Well, Lizzie, I ain't of a glow; that's certain.’
2.
a. Brightness and warmth of colour; a state of glowing brightness, a flush. Applied esp. to the warm red of the cheeks indicating youth or health.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with health
rudOE
colourc1330
ruddinessa1398
rosec1425
livelihood1566
glowa1616
quickness1656
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 49 A pageant truely plaid Betweene the pale complexion of true Loue, And the red glowe of scorne. View more context for this quotation
1727 J. Thomson Summer 19 At Thee the Ruby lights his deepening Glow.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 33 Then the roses on those cheeks are shaded with a sort of velvet down, that gives a delicacy to the glow of health.
1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 540/1 The glow of ripe fruits and declining leaves mark the Autumn.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. i. 3 The Moon is in her summer glow.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 77 We perceived..a ruddy glow flushing up the sky.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 534 Mary was gone, cut off in the prime of life, in the glow of beauty.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. i. 228 The red glow of the mountains at sunset.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 125 Her face seemed lighted up with an unearthly glow.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 85 I..Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow.
b. In astronomical and meteorological use, applied to certain appearances of light in the sky. (Earlier in counter-glow n.)
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 2/1 Brorsen discovered that on a fine dark night a faint glow is visible in that part of the sky opposite the sun.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 735/2 It follows that an observer..should see this portion of the light as a faint glow in the northern horizon.
3. Warmth of feeling or passion; ardour.
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun]
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1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 35 Cicero observes that there must be a Glow in our Stile if we would warm our Hearers.
1815 Ld. Byron There's not a Joy World can Give i When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. ii. iii. 253 On this occasion he felt the glow of self-approbation.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xx. 263 Romola felt herself surrounded and possessed by the glow of his passionate faith.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vi. 45 ‘And you come, brother,’ said Mr. Wegg, in a hospitable glow.
1867 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey (1868) vi. 454 In the glow of a religious revival.
Compounds
Some of these may be compounds of glow v.1† glow-bug n. Obsolete = glow-beetle n.
glow-beetle n. = glow-worm n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm)
glow-wormc1320
gold worm?c1475
glowbard?a1500
silver-worm?a1500
glose-worm1519
glass-worm1552
glaze-worm1578
glare-worm1607
night-worm1774
glow-bug1781
fireworm1821
glow-beetle1860
1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 2 Glow-worm, more correctly glow-beetle.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm)
glow-wormc1320
gold worm?c1475
glowbard?a1500
silver-worm?a1500
glose-worm1519
glass-worm1552
glaze-worm1578
glare-worm1607
night-worm1774
glow-bug1781
fireworm1821
glow-beetle1860
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 259 The Glow-bug both crawls and flies, and is about half an inch long.
glow-discharge n. ‘the luminous discharge of electricity from the pointed conductor of an electric machine in vigorous action where the electrified particles of air stream away’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1885); also, the luminous electrical discharge in a gas-filled tube.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > [noun] > luminous
glow-discharge1844
witch-fire1892
streamer1910
1844 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 2) ii. 45 Glow discharge, when a fine point is used to produce disruptive discharge from a positively charged conductor, the brush gives place to a quiet phosphorescent continuous glow.
1871 tr. H. Schellen Spectrum Anal. lxx. 423 The glow-discharge is perfectly noiseless.
1937 Discovery Feb. 54/1 The glow discharge from the first electrode.
1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors ii. 25 Any further increase in applied voltage is likely to initiate a continuous glow discharge which may cause irreparable damage to the tube.
glow-fly n. = firefly n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > member of (fire-fly)
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salamander-fly1668
lightning bug1778
firebug1789
glow-fly1789
lampyrine1842
lightning beetle1854
Photuris1858
meadow-fly1867
lampyrid1895
peeny-wally1961
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > elaterid fire-fly
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glow-fly1789
fire beetle1826
lightning beetle1854
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pyrophore1884
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 137 So shines the glow-fly, when the sun retires.
1851 P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Sojourn Jamaica 106 I will now speak of our other luminous insect, the Glow-fly (Pyrophorus noctilucus).
glow-lamp n. a lamp in which the light results from the incandescence of a resisting substance, e.g. carbon, produced by the passage of an electric current.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > incandescent lamp
glow-lamp1884
glow-light1891
incandescent1908
inky1929
1884 Daily News 6 Mar. 5/1 For general domestic illumination he thought the glow-lamp, as made by Swan and Edison, was the proper one.
glow-light n. a glowing light; spec. a glow-lamp.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > incandescent lamp
glow-lamp1884
glow-light1891
incandescent1908
inky1929
1891 Cassell's Family Mag. Oct. 700/2 Ten shillings is paid for an equivalent glow-light in the same time.
1913 Pop. Mag. 1 May 85/2 The Potomac's captain ordered even the tiny glow light illuminating the compass..to be covered.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 84 Glow-worm glow-light on a grassblade.
glow-lighting n. lighting by glow-lamps.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > incandescent lamp > illumination by
glow-lighting1894
festoon lighting1898
1894 Daily News 2 Oct. 6/6 For glow-lighting there is one 200 kwt. steam alternator for supplying 5,700 eight candle-power lamps.
glow plug n. an electrically heated plug used to ignite the gas in a gas turbine or rocket engine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > starters
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sparking plug1902
spark plug1903
dual ignition1909
impulse coupling1916
impulse starter1916
kick-starter1916
mag1918
cut-in1921
cartridge starter1922
recoil starter1931
glow plug1947
ignition1961
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > [noun] > point of discharge > in internal-combustion engine > plug > in gas turbine or rocket engine
glow plug1947
1947 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 6 106 A spark or glow plug projecting directly into the chamber can be used.
1961 Guardian 3 Apr. 4/1 When you press the switch, an electric glow-plug heats up and ignites the oil vapour in the burner.
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glow stick n. (also (in sense (b)) glo stick) originally U.S. (a) a device which glows when it detects an electric potential (now rare); (b) a plastic tube containing two chemicals which mix and react when the tube is bent, producing a luminescent glow, now chiefly sold as a novelty item for use at parties, festivals, nightclubs, etc.; = light stick n.
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1948 Power Sept. 108/3 If there is adequate clearance to work safely, I suggest JR use a glow stick.
1965 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 334 866/1 Before beginning to climb, Trent should have employed a glow stick to test for the presence of electricity.
1979 Marine Resource Bull. (U.S.) Mar. 5/2 Sportsfishing is done at night from boats drifting natural bait on leaders rigged with chemically activated ‘glow sticks’.
1999 M. Silcott Rave Amer. i. 40 Kiddie party accessories like glo-sticks and noisemakers like tambourines were suddenly all the rage.
2011 BreakingNews.ie (Nexis) 9 Feb. Fans in the theatre screamed and waved glow sticks during the 3D concert footage.
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glowv.1
/ɡləʊ/, U.S. /ɡloʊ/ 1. figurative.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 188 Til the holy gost bygynne to glowen and blase.
a. intransitive. To be heated to the point of incandescence; to emit bright light and heat without flame. Said also of a fire. †to glow out, to go out with a glow, subside from its glow.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > glow or shine as if on fire
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > very > glow
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c1000 Ælfric Homilies (1844) I. 424 Lecgað ða isenan clutas hate glowende to his sidan.
c1000 Ælfric Saints' Lives vii. 240 Þæt fyr wearð þa acwenced þæt þær an col ne gleow.
c1050 Aldhelm Glosses (Bodl.) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) I. 4409 Fulminauit, pro claruit, gleow, scan.
c1290 Michael 531 in S.E. Leg. I. 315 Ase ȝif a man nome a sclabbe of Ire þat glowynde were a-fuyre.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7221 With brynand bandes hate glowand.
a1400 Isumbras 394 Smethymene thore herde he blawe, And fyres thore bryne and glewe [rhyme ploghe].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 200/1 Glowyn, as hoote yryne, candeo.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Glow, to be hot or red.
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 62 When it is most all glown out, add such another Quantity to it, and let it glow for an Hour.
1780 S. Johnson Let. 9 June (1992) III. 268 I..found it in ruins, with the fire yet glowing.
b. quasi-transitive with cognate object.
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1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 13 Shall Pagan Pages glow celestial Flame, And Christian, languish?
c. Of the eyes: to glow into, to penetrate as by burning.Apparently an isolated use.
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1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni vii. xiii Mine eyes shall glow into thy brain.
2.
a. To shine, emit light, appear suffused with radiance, like something intensely heated.
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the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)]
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moon1885
a1400–50 Alexander 3368 The fourte was a granate þat glowys all þar fynest.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 114 Glas þat glowed & glyȝt.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xxxi His gloues and his gamesuns gloet [v.rr. glowed, glomede] as the gledes.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 604 Now glow'd the Firmament With living Saphirs. View more context for this quotation
1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 17 As Heaven with Stars, the Roof with Jewels glows.
1802 T. Campbell Hohenlinden v But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stainèd snow.
1827 W. Scott Let. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. v. 138 The eye [of Burns]..glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 106 One peak of snow in particular glowed like fire.
b. To gaze with ‘glowing’ eyes. rare. Cf. quot. c1374 at glow v.2
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze
stareOE
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darea1225
porec1300
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glowc1374
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glore?a1400
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govec1480
glower?a1513
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daze1523
amuse1532
glew1587
to feed one's eyes1590
to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598
to shoot one's eyes1602
glazea1616
stargaze1639
gaum1691
to stare like a stuck pig1702
ygaze1737
gawk1785
to feed one's sight1813
gloze1853
glow1856
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ii. 55 There he glowed on me With all his face and eyes.
c. To pass to or into a glowing colour.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (intransitive)] > become warm
warm1831
glow1888
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. ii. xi. 295 The stretches of purple heather, glowing into scarlet under the touch of the sun.
1906 E. Phillpotts Portreeve ii. i The breath of ocean made visible..glowed into red gold as the sun descended.
3. To be brilliant and ‘warm’ in colouring.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > coloured [verb (intransitive)] > be brightly coloured
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eblaze1610
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1274 The cercles of hise eyen in his heed They gloweden bitwixen yelow and reed.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 618 A smile that glow'd Celestial rosie red, Loves proper hue. View more context for this quotation
1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 136 Clad in a Gown, that glows with Tyrian dye.
1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 135 The fair Fruit that on yon' Branches glows.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 109 Or as the Rose..Fresh from Aurora's Hand, more sweetly glows.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 65 Quaff the palm's rich nectar as it glows.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. i. 6 His tunic glowed in the richest hues of the Tyrian dye.
1867 Deutsch in Rem. (1874) 2 Pictures teeming with life, glowing with colour.
4. To be excessively hot; to be on fire, to burn. literal and figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > excessively
glow1393
overheat1866
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 103 And þenne falleþ þer fur on false menne houses, And good menne for here gultes gloweþ on fuyr after.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 The torrid Zone Glows with the passing and repassing Sun. View more context for this quotation
1709 E. Smith Poem J. Philips 150 Yawning Gulphs with flaming Vengeance glow.
1716 J. Addison tr. Ovid Met. ii. Phaeton 105 From their nostrils flows The scorching fire, that in their entrails glows.
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. ii. 103 Then fly the spoles, the rapid axles glow.
5. To burn with bodily heat; usually with the accompaniment of heightened colour. Also const. with predic. adj.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > change colour > be or become red with emotion
redOE
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colour1616
reddena1648
crimson1780
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [verb (intransitive)] > blush
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rudOE
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rouge1780
ruddy1845
smoke1862
mount1894
rose1922
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > utter slander or calumny [verb (intransitive)] > burn or tingle (of ears)
burnc1563
glow1601
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [verb (intransitive)] > of ears > in allusion to specific superstition
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tingle1598
glow1601
the world > health and disease > be in state of health [verb (intransitive)] > be in good health > look in good health
glow1884
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 1096 For shame of him my chekes wexen rede; Algates, they biginnen for to glowe.
1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 42 Myne eares glowed for shame to here him.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. ii. 297 c Moreover, is not this an opinion generally received, That when our ears do glow and tingle, some there be that in our absence doe talke of us?
1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 42 She glows with blushes, and she hangs her head.
1708 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 3 Feb. (O.H.S.) II. 92 A..Sermon, which would have made ye Ears of ye Whiggs glow.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 66 His brow glowed, he burst into tears and hurried out of the room.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. vii. 301 Her cheek glowed while she spoke.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. i. 23 Turning first deadly pale, and then glowing red.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 95 Girls, all glowing with the flush of life.
1907 Smart Set Jan. 126/2 With cheeks glowing red.
6. To burn with the fervour of emotion or passion. Said of persons and their feelings.
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > become ardent or fervent [verb (intransitive)] > burn with passion
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > become ardent or fervent [verb (intransitive)] > burn (of passion)
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1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 29 I Feele my Bosome glow with wontlesse Fires.
1706 M. Prior Ode glorious Success 141 While with fiercest ire Bellona glows.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. i. 157 A certain Ardour or Enthusiasm that glowed in the breast of a gallant Man.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 80 I glow'd between Shame and Delight.
1787 F. Burney Diary 27 Jan. (1842) III. 304 I trembled and glowed alternately with surprise and pleasure at this recital.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 440 The courage of the first ages of the republic glowed in his breast.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 521 The Tories, glowing with resentment which was but too just, were resolved [etc.].
1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) ix. 270 Some of them glowing with the heat of early enthusiasm.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)]
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warmOE
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1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 125/1 Glowe them [Wallenuttes] in the fyere, then proiecte them in a gobblet with oulde wine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 211 Fannes whose winde did seeme, To gloue the delicate cheekes which they did coole. View more context for this quotation
1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker ii. 140 in Fleta Minor i Glow it often that it may not be shivery.
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glowv.2
Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To stare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze
stareOE
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to feed one's eyes1590
to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598
to shoot one's eyes1602
glazea1616
stargaze1639
gaum1691
to stare like a stuck pig1702
ygaze1737
gawk1785
to feed one's sight1813
gloze1853
glow1856
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. i. 2 She was a lytel amoued and glowede with cruwel eyen.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Taylor) x The bryddus in the boes, That of [other texts on] the gost gous [Thornton MS. gewes, riming with bewes, clewes; Douce. glowes] Thay scryken.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2922 To glogh vppon gomes at gedering of folke.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Borgnoyer, to glow, glote, or loure.
1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iv. 60 A thousand frantick Spirits..Peep'd from the Watry brink, and glow'd upon me.
1843 John's Acc. Trip to Bristol in Halliwell Dict. Introd. 27/2 Tha 'osses did glowy, an' tha sheep glowied too.
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 25/1 Glow, Glower, to stare; to look cross.
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