v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glowed p. pr. & vb. n. Glowing. ] [ AS. glōwan; akin to D. gloeijen, OHG. gluoen, G. glühen, Icel. glōa, Dan. gloende glowing. √94. Cf. Gloom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

And glow with shame of your proceedings. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did not his temples glow
In the same sultry winds and acrching heats? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make hot; to flush. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. White or red heat; incandscence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The red glow of scorn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Globard. ] The glowworm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glowered p. pr. & vb. n. Glowering. ] [ Cf. Gloar. ] to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a cheerless aspect or disposition.
Syn. -- dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. softly bright or radiant.
Syn. -- aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.
Syn. -- fluorescent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. afire; as, glowing embers. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- burning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elect.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a glowworm in the night,
The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The male is winged, and is supposed to be attracted by the light of the female. In America, the luminous larvæ of several species of fireflies and fire beetles are called glowworms. Both sexes of these are winged when mature. See Firefly. [ 1913 Webster ]