glow (glo)

[ 6. To be intense or vehement; have or exhibit force, ardor, or animation. Shad well . Love glows, and with a sullen heat, Like fire in logs, it warms us long. How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! Pope , Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 230. 7. To stare with amazement. [Prov. Eng.] II.t trans. To heat so as to produce color or brilliancy; produce a flush in. Pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. glow (glo), n. [ glow , v.] 1. Shining heat, or white heat; incandescence. O Vulcan, what a glow ! 'Tis blinding white, 'tis blasting bright-the high sun shines not so! S. Ferguson, Forging of the Anchor. 2. Brightne of color; vivid redne : as, the glow of health in the cheeks. A waving glow his bloomy beds display, Blushing in bright diversities of day. Pope, Moral E ays, iv. 83. His face did glow like the glow of the west, When the drumlie cloud has it half o'ercast; Or the struggling moon when she's sair distrest. W. Nicholson, The Brownie of Blednoch. Twere pleasant could Corregio's fleeting glow Hang full in face of one, where'er one roams. Browning , Bp. Blougram's Apology. 3. A flush of sensation or feeling, as of pleasure, pain, etc.; ardor; vehemence. A pageant truly play'd, Between the pale complexion of true love And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 4. If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , ii. 6. A glow of pleasure follows the solution of a puzzling question, even though the question be not worth solving. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 517. Same as glowbird.