Glowing

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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