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▪ I. glow, n.|gləʊ|
[f. glow v.]
1. The state or condition of glowing with heat.
a. Shining heat. Phr. in a glow (cf. aglow).
1827Keble Chr. Y. 4th Sund. aft. Easter vii, The struggling spark of good within..They quicken to a timely glow. 1847Emerson Poems, Woodnotes, Drifting sand-heaps feed my stock In summer's scorching glow. 1850D. G. Mitchell Reveries Bachelor 82 But my fire is in a glow. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 77 The merest point remains in a state of glow. 1881Maxwell Electr. & Magn. 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. Phr. in a glow, colloq. (all) of a glow.
1793Beddoes Calculus 194 The glow experienced in coming out of a cold bath. 1820W. Scoresby Arct. Reg. II. 353 In chasing each other round the decks, they had excited a genial glow of heat in their bodies. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 59 In a few minutes a comfortable glow succeeded. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vi, ‘Sit close to the fire..You must be frozen.’ ‘Well Lizzie, I ain't of a glow, that's certain.’
2. 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.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iv. 57 A pageant truely plaid Betweene the pale complexion of true Loue, And the red glowe of scorne. 1727–46Thomson Summer 147 At thee the ruby lights its deepening glow. 1775Sheridan Duenna ii. i, Then the roses on those cheeks are shaded with a sort of velvet down, that gives a delicacy to the glow of health. 1795Gentl. Mag. 540/1 The glow of ripe fruits and declining leaves mark the Autumn. 1813Scott Rokeby i. i, The moon is in her summer glow. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 77 We perceived..a ruddy glow flushing up the sky. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 534 Mary was gone, cut off in the prime of life, in the glow of beauty. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. i. 228 The red glow of the mountains at sunset. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iv. 125 Her face seemed lighted up with an unearthly glow. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 85, I..Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow.
3. Warmth of feeling or passion; ardour.
1748J. Mason Elocut. 35 Cicero observes that there must be a Glow in our Stile if we would warm our Hearers. 1815Byron ‘There's not a joy the world can give’ i, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. ii. iii. 253 On this occasion he felt the glow of self-approbation. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. viii, Romola felt herself surrounded and possessed by the glow of his passionate faith. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. vi, ‘And you come, brother’, said Mr. Wegg in a hospitable glow. 1867Stanley Westm. Abb. vi. (1868) 454 In the glow of a religious revival.
4. Comb., some of which may be combs. of vb. glow: glow-beetle, † glow-bug = glow-worm; glow-discharge, ‘the luminous discharge of electricity from the pointed conductor of an electric machine in vigorous action where the electrified particles of air stream away’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885); also, the luminous electrical discharge in a gas-filled tube; glow-fly = fire-fly; glow-lamp, 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; glow-light, a glowing light; spec. a glow-lamp; glow-lighting, lighting by glow-lamps; glow plug, an electrically heated plug used to ignite the gas in a gas turbine or rocket engine.
1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 2 Glow-worm, more correctly *glow-beetle.
1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 259 The *Glow-bug both crawls and flies, and is about half an inch long.
1844H. 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. 1871tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. lxx. 423 The glow-discharge is perfectly noiseless. 1937Discovery Feb. 54/1 The glow discharge from the first electrode. 1963B. 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.
1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. 137 So shines the *glow-fly, when the sun retires. 1851P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Soj. Jamaica 106, I will now speak of our other luminous insect, the Glow-fly (Pyrophorus noctilucus).
1884Daily News 6 Mar. 5/1 For general domestic illumination he thought the *glow-lamp, as made by Swan and Edison, was the proper one.
1891Cassell's Family Mag. Oct. 700/2 Ten shillings is paid for an equivalent *glow-light in the same time. 1913Pop. Mag. 1 May 85/2 The Potomac's captain ordered even the tiny glow light illuminating the compass..to be covered. 1934T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 84 Glow-worm glow-light on a grassblade.
1894Daily News 2 Oct. 6/6 For *glow-lighting there is one 200 kwt. steam alternator for supplying 5,700 eight candle-power lamps.
1947Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. VI. 106 A spark or *glow plug projecting directly into the chamber can be used. 1961Guardian 3 Apr. 4/1 When you press the switch, an electric glow-plug heats up and ignites the oil vapour in the burner.
▪ II. glow, v.1|gləʊ|
Pa. tense and pa. pple. glowed. Forms: OE. glówan, 4, 6 glowe(n, 5 glowyn, glewe, (7 gloue), 4– glow. pa. pple. 8 rare glown.
[OE. glówan, recorded only in pr. pple. glówende and pa. tense gléow, was a redupl. str. vb., but the corresponding vbs. in the other Teut. langs. are weak: OS. glôjan in Oxf. glosses (Du. gloeien), OHG. gluoen (MHG. glüen, glüejen, mod.Ger. glühen), ON. (*glówa) glóa, also glœ́ja (MSw. ? gloa, glöia, Sw. dial., Da. glo; for Sw., Da. glo to stare, see glow v.2). As the vb. is wk. after OE., it is possible that the existing word may not be the descendant of OE. glówan, but an adoption from ON. The Teut. root *glô- appears also in gleed, and perh. in OE. glóm (see gloaming), though the latter may possibly contain the ablaut-variant *glæ̂-; the weak-grade of the root, *glă-, is found in glass, perh. also in glade.]
1. a. intr. 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.
c1000ælfric Hom. (1844) I. 424 Lecᵹað ða isenan clutas hate glowende to his sidan. ― Saints' Lives vii. 240 Þæt fyr wearð þa acwenced þæt þær an col ne gleow. c1050Aldhelm Glosses (Bodl.) in Napier O.E. Glosses I. 4409 Fulminauit, pro claruit, gleow, scan. c1290Michael 531 in S.E. Leg. I. 315 Ase ȝif a man nome a sclabbe of Ire þat glowynde were a-fuyre. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7221 With brynand bandes hate glowand. a1400Isumbras 394 Smethymene thore herde he blawe, And fyres thore bryne and glewe [rime ploghe]. c1440Promp. Parv. 200/1 Glowyn, as hoote yryne, candeo. 1623Cockeram, Glow, to be hot or red. 1780Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 9 June, I..found it [Newgate] in ruins, with the fire yet glowing. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 146 When it is nearly all glown out, add such another quantity to it, and let it glow for an hour.
fig.1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 188 Til the holy gost bygynne to glowen and blase.
b. quasi-trans. with cognate obj.
1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 192 Shall pagan pages glow celestial flame, And christian languish?
c. Of the eyes: to glow into, to penetrate as by burning. nonce-use.
1842Lytton Zanoni vii. xiii, Mine eyes shall glow into thy brain.
2. a. To shine, emit light, appear suffused with radiance, like something intensely heated.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 114 Glas þat glowed & glyȝt. a1400–50Alexander 3368 The fourte was a granate þat glowys all þar fynest. c1420Anturs of Arth. xxxi, His gloues and his gamesuns gloet [v.rr glowed, glomede] as the gledes. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 604 Now glow'd the Firmament With living Saphirs. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 143 As heav'n with stars, the roof with jewels glows. 1802Campbell Hohenlinden v, But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stainèd snow. 1827Scott Let. to Lockhart in Life v, The eye [of Burns]..glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 106 One peak of snow in particular glowed like fire.
b. To gaze with ‘glowing’ eyes. rare—1. Cf. glow v.2 (quot. c 1374).
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 343 There he glowed on me With all his face and eyes.
c. To pass to or into a glowing colour.
1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere xi, The stretches of purple heather, glowing into scarlet under the touch of the sun. 1906E. 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.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1274 The cercles of hise eyen in his heed They gloweden bitwyxen yelow and reed. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 618 A smile that glow'd Celestial rosie red, Loves proper hue. a1700Dryden (J.), Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. 1703Pope Vertumnus 100 The fair fruit that on yon' branches glows. 1727–46Thomson Summer 1327 Or as the rose..Fresh from Aurora's hand, more sweetly glows. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 65 Quaff the palm's rich nectar as it glows. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. i, His tunic glowed in the richest hues of the Tyrian dye. 1867Deutsch in Rem. (1874) 2 Pictures teeming with life, glowing with colour.
4. To be excessively hot; to be on fire, to burn. lit. and fig.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 103 And þenne falleþ þer fur on false menne houses, And good menne for here gultes gloweþ on fuyr after. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 323 The torrid Zone Glows with the passing and repassing Sun. 1709E. Smith To Mem. J. Philips 150 Yawning Gulphs with flaming Vengeance glow. 1716Addison Ovid's Met. ii. Phaeton 105 From their nostrils flows The scorching fire, that in their entrails glows. 1789E. Darwin Botanic Garden 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.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 1096 For shame of him my chekes wexen rede; Algates, they biginnen for to glowe. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale 42 Myne eares glowed for shame to here him. 1601Holland Pliny 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? 1693Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 650 She glows with blushes, and she hangs her head. 1708Hearne Collect. 3 Feb. (O.H.S.) II. 92 A..Sermon, which would have made ye Ears of ye Whiggs glow. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. II. 66 His brow glowed, he burst into tears and hurried out of the room. 1838Lytton Alice 126 Her cheek glowed while she spoke. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! i, Turning first deadly pale, and then glowing red. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 95 Girls, all glowing with the flush of life. 1907Smart Set Jan. 126/2 With cheeks glowing red.
6. To burn with the fervour of emotion or passion. Said of persons and their feelings.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hymn Fairest Fair 1, I feele my Bosome glow with wontlesse Fires. 1706Prior Ode on Success Her Majesty's Arms 141 While with fiercest ire Bellona glows. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §1 A certain ardour or enthusiasm that glowed in the breast of a gallant man. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 131, I glowed between shame and delight. 1787F. Burney Diary 27 Jan., I trembled and glowed alternately with surprise and pleasure at this recital. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. V. lii. 440 The courage of the first ages of the republic glowed in his breast. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 521 The Tories, glowing with resentment which was but too just, were resolved [etc.]. 1878R. W. Dale Lect. Preach. ix. 270 Some of them glowing with the heat of early enthusiasm.
†7. trans. causatively. To make hot; to heat.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 125/1 Glowe them [Wallenuttes] in the fyere, then proiecte them in a gobblet with oulde wine. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 209 Fannes whose winde did seeme, To gloue the delicate cheekes which they did coole. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. 140 Glow it often that it may not be shivery.
▪ III. glow, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 glogh; cf. glew v.2
[Cf. Sw., Da. glo to stare, look sullen; it may possibly be a use of glow v.1]
intr. To stare.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. i. 2 (Camb. MS.) She was a lytel amoued and glowede with cruwel eyen. c1400Destr. Troy 2922 To glogh vppon gomes at gedering of folke. c1420[see gaw v.]. 1611Cotgr., Borgnoyer, to glow, glote, or loure. 1678Dryden & Lee Œdipus iv. i, A thousand frantick Spirits..Peep'd from the watry Brink, and glow'd upon me. 1843John's Acc. Trip to Bristol in Halliwell Dict. Introd. 27/2 Tha 'osses did glowy, an' tha sheep glowied too. 1863in Barnes Dorset Gloss. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Glow, to stare; to look cross.
▪ IV. glow(e
obs. form of clove n.2
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxix. (1495) 652 Glowes highte Gariophili. |